NOTES

1. Both Dwoogie and The Purple Better One did a few mixes of 'Peristalsis'. The track started out as a piece of guitar feedback called 'Slash Like Stanley' that I recorded back in the '80s. The amp was cranked up to 11 and although I was "performing" in the front bedroom of our house in Sunderland, I had to set up the recording device along the upstairs hall in the bathroom as the sheer volume created some pretty ugly distortion. When I started to cut up the track a couple of years ago for a remix, I got bogged down and wasn't satisfied with it, so I asked for a little help from my friends who excelled themselves with terrific interpretations.

2. 'Down With The Dengue' was started just before a trip to Australia. It was renamed and finished after I returned via Singapore. In Singapore I was inundated with TV news flashes updating the viewer as to how many people had died of mosquito-borne dengue the previous day. I didn't really take note. After all, I'd had malaria jabs before I left the UK and surely dengue was just the local name for malaria, wasn't it? In Singapore with no insect repellant, wearing shorts and t-shirts, I tramped around boggy areas examining the local wildlife which was also examining me very closely with its assorted pointy mouthpieces. I was covered in mosquito bites when I got back and decided to confirm my belief that dengue was just another name for malaria. Oh dear. Wrong. Very, very wrong. There's no innoculation, no cure, it's fatal in about 20% of cases and the incubation period can be up to 14 days. Cue a fortnight's hypochondria. Take heed, chums. When in Singapore use insect repellant without fail and cover up as much of your torso as possible. Those mosquito bites itch like mad and may cost you your life.

3. Nothing to do with the previous tale, 'Mosquito' was recorded several years ago following the Challenge 30 principle (see my Crown Of Prawns page). The samples came from a copy of Future Music. I have absolutely no idea who the original artist was so if anyone knows, please pipe up: prawnshocker@ntlworld.com

4. During a visit to see Dwoogie in Poland, he played a few new tracks to me and I asked if I could have a crack at mixing one or two of them. This is one of several mixes I did of 'Moodeh'. The Co-op were selling cava at half price and this mix was knocked off half way through the second bottle, hence both the name and the general feeliing of uncontrolled lunacy. Dwoogie's original version is on 'A Nice Size'.

5. Heresy! Charles Ives fans should rip my kidneys out with butchers' hooks for doing this. For those of you intrigued enough, 'Putnam's Camp at Redding, Connecticut' is the second movement of Ives' 'Orchestral Set No. 1: Three Places In New England'. Included in this version are portions of 'Country Band March' and the '1776 Overture', in keeping with Ives' own interpolations of these pieces when he composed the suite. Several orchestras were unwittingly press-ganged into compliance for this, my very own version of 'Putnam's'. Oh, happy days.

6. In fact there aren't nearly enough chimps. With logging companies continuing their destruction of the world's rainforests and the continuing slaughter of chimps, gorillas and bonobos for the bushmeat trade, how long before there aren't any apes left in the wild? How long, too, before we follow as the result of our reckless disregard for ecological imbalance? It's probably already too late, chums. What this has to do with the tune is quite beyond me.

7. See 1.

8. Another vandalistic foray into the world of classical music. Shame on me.