ArtEfficient Intelligenz

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. 2003, home studio, much earlier version of EOF, getting a tad electronic on a song Gage had originally composed on -self taught- acoustic guitar. This song, as it is here, early version, is, in and of itself, eternally more interesting and insightful than the entire summation of creative output ever produced by Xav - were he born 67 times, with Einstein by his side...

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. One of those times G, Gage, and Evan, made music post dex, collaborating remotely. Arty as this pic is, my almond doesn't otherwise fit. Keyboards + drum programming by Evan Bass by Gage Guitars by G Main vocals + backing vocals + lyrics by Elaina G. Mixed & produced by Paul Kendall at Mute studios, partially based on remotely recorded stems.

AR201222 Originally + entirely composed by Gage on acoustic guitar. ..Slightly embryonic, production wise. That's 'early' Cubase audio for ya. ..Tad crashy. Gage - acoustic guitar, bass Evan - drum programming, keys, sequencers

Audio replaced 13/09/21 with the just-pre-dex (1993) version. Freely experimenting with ideas atop a sequenced base from 1991. Moog panning & mixing by Gage, as I was playing live moog & its wheels, and had plenty busy hands on this one everywhere else too. So, mixed live by Gage. Though I still managed to get some nasty bump notes in there for that real human touch - and Ross' Casio helicopter is...

2005 avant glitch experiment. This track had been kicking about since 2002.

Sparking Toys 2002. Probably actual first demo we recorded using a basic DAW. Absolutely awesome guitars by Rachel Johnson, particularly as it was our first DAW recording, using a 300Mhz AMD computer which didn't cope/mpute with much at all. Cubase back then, running within such an environment, was quite simply a digital 4-track. I could never get it to cope with 8 simultaneous tracks, for sure. L...

Sparking Toys 2001/2. Probably the first demo we recorded onto a DAW. Whenever we played as Sparking Toys at the Bull & Gate in London's Kentish Town, even as a 3 piece without a vocalist -before Mark Rutherford, featured here-, the crowd went mad with this one, in ways I'd never seen with dexdexter. Gage and I never told anyone we used to be in dexdexter - in fact we hid it as much as we could. S...

Rather pleased with how the production evolved for this one, with Mark Rutherford on vocals, and Rachel Johnson on guitar. ..Despite it still just being yet another live cassette tape demo. ..I also find Gage's bass on this particular version to be more exquisite than usual. By now, she had refined this bassline into something of a live cult thing too. Such a fine fine FINE bass. You couldn't groo...

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. 'Evan remember not to do dinosaur hands ffs' - and he went and did. 1997 experimental track. Always meant as an interlude, probably a B side lol. Though I must say crowds including Chrissie Hynde loved this one when we played a longer version of it live, with me on live drums, Gage on bass, Rachel on guitar, and sequenced keyboards including a few Blade Runner dial...

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. Part of the demo recorded immediately post dexdexter, early 1997. Gage's. Bass. Here. Too. The Clash, Marley, and pre-dub - all in there. Bass-Grooving like that, during the outro, to a -famously sterile- early 90s Boss drumbox, in 1997. WTAF. I must also say I would've never wanted Xav to sing this song, whatsoever. This vocal was ideated by G as we worked out new...

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. Part of the demo recorded immediately post dexdexter, early 1997. Spanish Basque British Americana or what. The song that featured all of my samples from Hollywood's Stacey 's Casio, from a celesta sound as leadchord during verses, to the actual 'Casio auto-accompaniment chord' section, which had a million organ-like harmonics in there and it probably remains the m...

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz. Part of the demo recorded immediately post dexdexter, early 1997.

Picture by Itxaso Díaz.

Original picture by Itxaso Díaz.

Mid 95 demo CD. Xav playing great, counterpoint suspended support chords / fx, on his DX11 keyboard, during Blue Planet / the instrumental outro / under the moog solo. Pictured, Alfie (Alfie Doo), the photographer's dog. Can't remember the photographer's name though.

Before there was a scene, before the Melody Maker had a name for it all - before the Melody Maker went bust, too. ..Before the mid 90s record label frenzy, there were these tracks. Jesus effing christ Gage's bass. She's tighter than G's drum machine here. I always knew half the groove on my sometimes decent drumming derived directly from her bass playing, but the way Gage was always TIGHT and simu...

Picture by Itxaso Díaz. One of the very early songs G brought in. ..We all 'experienced' bump notes during these recordings, but we seemed to only keep the takes with my ones, thanx guys lol. ..It's also very possible that, though odd, I was also doing 2nd backing vocals here during choruses, as per G's request, to match the vocals on what had been his original 4 track demo, but live - and I'm not...

Left to right: Colin Thurston, Paul 'PK' Kendall, ..and a brilliant Australian studio assistant whose name I think was Neil / Neal. But I've been wrong before. Roundhouse Studios, London Bridge, mid 1996. Paul McCartney's studios back then, "yaknow". Picture by Gage S. This track was *very much* finalized by Paul Kendall's lone production. He made my self-sampled, programmed drums, sound real, for...

Picture by Itxaso Díaz. The very first demoed song we recorded as dexdexter. An 'old' track Gage and I already had ready - G's guitars became crucial in order to decide keeping it was ok. But it is true too that the amount of exquisiteness featured in the way Gage had this bassline nailed down by then, the way she played against / around that drum machine, could be isolated together with the 4x4 k...

Left to right: Evan, Paul 'PK' Kendall, Xav. Roundhouse Studios, London Bridge, mid 1996. McCartney's studios back then, donyano. Recording G's guitars / backing vocals / harmonies. Amidst our travels from Chipping Norton residential studios, to Protocol studios, to TownHouse studios, to Blackwing studios, through London Bridge studios, to Mute Records' studios. ..What an easy going band lol. This...

Left to right: Evan, Paul 'PK' Kendall, Xav. Roundhouse Studios, London Bridge, mid 1996. Paul McCartney's studios back then, "yaknow". Recording G's guitars / backing vocals / harmonies. Amidst our travels from Chipping Norton residential studios, to Protocol studios, to TownHouse studios, to Blackwing studios, through London Bridge studios, to Mute records studios. ..What an easy going band lol....

The song Gage composed on bass from start to finish, which prompted the switching single from COY to ACACC. Bridges and choruses are basically JUST bass guitar, with everyone else more or less replicating the bass riff / allowing the bass riff to come through. That's what I was doing with my moog anyway. Evsplaining - lol. G was instrumental with its modal and structural arranging. cause we quite...

Original picture by Caroline E.

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