PT016 - Bass Kittens - Ecstasy Flashback

Late one night in the Pretension Studio, after too much red wine, Bass Kittens fell asleep. Just slumped right over on the synthesizer keyboard. He had a crazy dream in which he was transported back to an illegal warehouse party in 1992, but in possession of a laptop full of all the production software he loved from the 21st Century. Upon awakening, he found three mysterious new files on his hard drive.

They sounded like the breaks-and-sample-heavy music from his drug obsessed youth, but with a modern spin. "Hoovers!" he exclaimed. "Stabs! Chipmunk Vocals! Tricky edits! It's all HERE!" Clearly there was only one thing to do with this time warp-bestowed bounty - send it on over to his pals at Addictech and let the entire world share the insane rush of the ECSTASY FLASHBACK.

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PT015 - The JDs - Education

JD#1 = Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto
JD#2 = Jon Drukman of Bass Kittens

Seriously, what else do you need to know?




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PT014 - Copthorne MacDonald - Vidicon

Little is known about the mysterious Mr MacDonald, other than he shares his name with the inventor of slow-scan television. His demo arrived in the mail one day, covered with stamps from various Eastern European post offices. It's a bit of a departure from the normal Pretension sound, but we value good music above all, so we were thrilled to be able to put it out.

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PT013 - Bass Kittens - Terminus

Another odds and ends compilation, but the Bass Kittens Sound is so cohesive that it works (or you could just say that I'm a lazy bastard who only ever writes one kind of music.)

A little behind the scenes insight: People who have worked with me know that I'm a real one take kind of guy.  If the track, or parts of the track, aren't happening instantly, I usually just give up and do something else.  "Mono Melo" started life as a really melodic old school kind of thing but I just wasn't feeling it.  Normally I would have thrown it on the junk heap but for some reason I was compelled to keep messing with it.  Eventually I hit on the idea of turning it into a patented Bass Kittens triple-acid line jam.  The acid version was turned around in no time at all and I think it turned out killer.

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PT012 - Jeff Taylor - Forgotten Colonies

Everybody who knows Jeff had a copy of this album on CD-r for years. And the one question was on everyone's mind was, when the hell was Jeff going to release it? We begged, we pleaded, we cajoled, we whined... Finally, he could hold out no longer and Pretension won the bidding war.

I love this. Deep space, funky, hallucinatory electro. Nobody does 30 second reverbs like Jeff. Classy.

Oh, and get a load of this cover art. Genius or what?

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PT011 - Bass Kittens & Various Artists - Vs.

I love working with other artists. This release is so much fun for me, mainly because I can ignore all the parts that I did that I'm not so sure about and focus on the stuff that the contributors did. Getting "Storm The CPU" out was a real triumph too - I'm pretty sure we originally did that track in 2001! It hasn't aged a microsecond.

1. Bass Kittens vs Volum - Storm The CPU
2. Bass Kittens vs Single Cell Orchestra - World War 2.5
3. Bass Kittens vs Justin Maxwell - Delicious Algae
4. Bass Kittens vs Volum - Robots 1, Hippies 0
5. Bass Kittens vs Single Cell Orchestra - Look At The Sky
6. Bass Kittens vs Freaky Chakra - Ill Machine

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PT010 - Bass Kittens - Inside The Electron

This, for my money, is really where Pretension 2.0 starts. No more messing around. We're going to have a regular release schedule and we're going to make sure our stuff is everywhere people want it (except vinyl - don't get me started on that).

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