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The Daisy Age

A friend has just sent me this relic from a far distant past - what an honor to support one of hip hops greatests.

Jumper DVD Trailer

Hey, they’re using Supermoves (Animatrix Mix) to flog the Jumper DVD in the US. Catch it on TV for the next month.

Here Be Dragons

Here is the Overseer remix of the Dragons track Obedience, completed a few yonks ago…..

Dragons features my old mucker Dave Francolini (ex of the under-rated Darkstar) on them there drums and other bits, as with all things this is pure nepotism. Find out more at myspace.com/dragons1.

Evolution of a Song (or Three)

This is the tale of one instrumental and it’s torturous path to completion on the Wreckage album…

The backing track was pretty much written in one go back in late 1999, it had the horn scratchy verse and big string chorus. I think perhaps this was my first departure from the faster breakbeats to something more slow and epic, it got called ‘Bighorn’. My then manager suggested Andrew Montgomery (ex Geneva) to finish things off. Here’s the result of that collaboration, recorded on my mini-disc in New York, August 2000.

I loved Andrews vocals but wasn’t sure it was appropriate for the track and some months later I tried putting him on top of a weird Dub thing I was working on - hey presto ‘Aquaplane’ as you can hear on the album.

Sometime later while recording some vocals for the album I played Nick Life the still instrumental Bighorn, he loved it and asked me to give him half an hour to come up with something. This is that incredible something…

BTW the chorus melody that Vicky sings was written by studio assistant Nick. Still not quite happy with the results I moved Nicks vocals over to what was to become Doomsday.

So the track remained unfinished for ages, I remember thinking Morrissey would be the perfect fit but alas the man is nigh impossible to persuade. Eventually Kevin Patrick at Columbia suggested new signing Jakk Frost. Jakk was a gent and wrote the track in front of me that became the version of ‘Never’ you hear on the album.

Take a listen to the finished versions of Never, Aquaplane and Doomsday.

And finally here’s the unreleased ‘New York’ mix of Aquaplane….

Invincible Love Video

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Invincible Love

Here is ‘Invincible Love’ featuring Senator John McCain - You can download it HERE*, also available for download at iLike and ReverbNation
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Horndog Video

Here’s the video that Columbia Records commissioned for Horndog - All I could dig up was this rough-cut version but you get the idea. The date on the DVD is 29/8/03.

You Don’t Mess With The Zohan Trailer

It’s just been confirmed that the forthcoming Adam Sandler movie uses ‘Supermoves’ in the trailer. I haven’t manage to find the version featuring it yet but I’ll let you know when I do…..

Kanute Performing Sparks, Coventry, 1/11/07

I finally got to see Kanute performing at the Escape in Coventry. Here they are performing a cover of ‘Sparks’ (and why not?) from my album. Please excuse the rather lofi nature of the picture and sound.

Walking Tall Trailer

Featuring ‘Horndog’