Yesterday James Plotkin (Jodis / Phantomsmasher / Khanate + much much more – pictured above) recorded a slew of my guitar and synth tracks for a future Diamond Cult collaboration release.
The results were heavy, noisy and weird as hell but in the best possible sense.
Here’s a couple of pics from the session…
We ran my guitar through James’ insanely heavy bass setup (above left). Walls shook, windows rattled. It was a lot of fun.
Several of my tracks were intended to be essentially guitar noise. With that in mind, James was kind enough to let me use his mind-warpingly bizarre little synth/effects box called “The Pox” (the little blue guy above). Sorry the photo isn’t more clear. James made this device himself and I have to admit I’ve never heard guitar get so wonderfully fucked up by an effect before. “The Pox” is a work of evil genius.
After all the guitar bits were done we tracked a bunch of stuff with my tried and true little DAED Feedback Synth.
The whole experience was a blast. To learn more about James Plotkin’s music and audio services check out his website plotkinworks.com
So, what is to become of all these strange recordings? I am handing them over to my friend and experimental / noise artist Lee Bartow, to tweak as he will, for a Diamond Cult collaboration with his project Theologian (check it out on MySpace). There’s no deadline for this release so whenever Lee gets done doing his thing I will post an update.
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