Champion Version – CV201911
A question like that is always a nice reminder for something I really
like... to focus on a short amount of music. It’s a bit like writing a
short story instead of a book. There’s still something of the ‘album
feel’ in there; two tracks that are closely related, both part of the
same story. But there’s not the issue of having to deal with the arc or
dynamics of a complete full length record. In a way, this gives me the
freedom to be more explorative and playful, like you could probably hear
in my previous Champion Version 7-inch, ‘Snoepgoed’, and in this new
one ‘Melodrama’.
‘Melodrama’ started by recording an online drum machine with a dodgy
4-track, then playing that back through a few effects pedals and looping
bits of it. The resulting rhythm is the foundation of ‘Melodrama 1’, on
which I started to arrange midi instruments onto, very intuitively.
What started as something with a sort of lo-fi Autechre feel, to me
anyway, became something completely different. Quite cinematic, and
perhaps a bit… melodramatic? Well, I guess sometimes that’s how I like
it.
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