1) Army Dreamers (in the style of New Order at their synthiest)
2) Acid Groove Thing ("Fascist Groove Thang" with acid bassline and reworked lyrics)
3) The Dreaming (started off as a Clash pasticle, ended up...punk goth)
4) Cool for Cats (done as a gutteral rap over a backing Aphrodite might have done - with a slightly, er, rewritten final verse)
5) Experiment IV (vaguely Massive Attack-like)
6) Science Fiction, Double Feature (with lots of pulsating frequency modulation)
7) Them Heavy People (with cutup triphop beat and string quartet)
8) Girl U Want (imagine Shawaddywaddy as remixed by 2 Unlimited)
23 minutes, plus another 2 or 3 for an intro track and links between songs, seems a reasonable running time.
The intro and links are samples from films and TV shows - pithy fragments from Vladek Sheybal, Peter Wyngarde and Jello Biafra.
The one song which persistantly refuses to gel is "Gloomy Sunday". Judging from the half dozen or so covers of it I've stumbled upon, it's not easy to make music that "works" with the lyrics and vocal rhythm. There's jazz and techno versions that resort to a chaotic mess of honks and bleeps - though the ones that (IMO) work are the simplest, with just strings or piano following the voice, and minimal or no drums.
Okay, the backings for the live performance are as sorted as they're going to get, so I can now spend a week practicing, then do the actual gig, and then start work on the "proper" recorded versions.
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