ZooG's notes on the creation
of the track "Vena Cava"
Recording percussion on Vena Cava
Rode NT1A and NT1, wooden pole, Middle
Finger of God. |
THE MUSIC
This is the first track we decided to
release from Krankhaus. The final version of this hit draft
30 – it just wasn’t working so we spend months
on it.
Vena Cava was ‘born’ in January
2004 – it was meant to be a driving insane hi energy
track with a central accending manic guitar line. Graham laid
the guitars down when he was doing the guitars for Nurse
Grenade. We wanted to make something that would
make party-people ‘come on’, and then die violently....i
fucking hate 'party people'.
But this idea was completely lame arse
and the entire track was abandoned until January 2005. I’d
just got the analogue sequencer and Alienator and was looking
for a track to debautch. DestroyX was at the Vivian Westwood
Art Gallery in Canberra and I was stuck at the RockHaus hot
and bored – it was about 35degrees that day….so
I got drunk. Really really really drunk. The cool thing about
being drunk and making music is you do stuff that you normally
wouldn’t do.
The Vena Cava Cocktail:
2 shots of Vodka
1 shot calua
1 shot frangellico
1 shot butterscotch snaps
... this lubricated the song nicely.
I used Vena Cava as a canvas and got this percussive line
happening on the analogue sequencer. I accidentally plugged
the percussion CV into the Filter and BEHOLD…the verse
bass line in Vena Cava was born.
The bass line is pretty huge. It has active frequencies around
20Hz (DAMN low) so it had to be worked a lot for it to make
sense….there’s HUGE and then there’s ridiculous….this
was ridiculous.
The bass was made up of OberMoog, Doepfer, Analogue Solutions
oscillators making a HUGE mono bass which was panned centre.
This was then distorted and fed into the Low Pass Filter on
the OberMoog.
Recording percussion on Vena Cava
Rode NT1A, wooden pole, metal pole-o-dooom |
The Prophet5 was laid down twice –
each take was slightly different. The 2 takes were panned
left and right. The Prophet 5 is PURE SEX. Turning up the
Frequency Modulation and hitting the UNISON button makes demons
howl.
…and around about this time I was unconscious.
PERCUSSION
An iron board was seriously damaged during the making of this
recording. It was bashed TO DEATH with a large metal pipe,
distorted and compressed to make the snare and the hats. The
additional ‘bleepy’ percussion from the analogue
sequencer is being fed through the Alienator (bit-crusher).
GUITAR
Graeme is a complete GOD. The guitar track is uneffected and
unprocessed.
Yes, he too was drunk. Want your guitarist to ROCK? Pay them
in beer.
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