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"Lifelike"
Southern Records
18547
TRACKS:
1. Drive Until He Sleeps (4:05)
2. Blood in the Air 4:32)
3. Undersided (4.16)
4. Digame (3:54)
5. Laceria (3:30)
6. Molloy's March (3:17)
7. Green Of The Melon (3:23)
8. Spilling (3:40)
9. The Fortunate One Knows No Anxiety (3:54)
10. News To Go Farther (2:09)
11. Acer Rubrum (4:56)
12. Exeunt (4:04)
Lifelike is the product of a year and a half of real time playing,
recording and mixing, hard disc editing, sequencing, sampling and tape
splicing. It has 12 songs and fits on one side of a C-90. More than half
of the basic recording for Lifelike was done in May of 1997 at
Greg
Frey's
Graphic Sound Studios In Ringoes, New Jersey. In addition to that,
Frere-Jones recorded material on digital multitrack over the summer (in
his newborn son Sam's bedroom) and did sampler work at his home studio,
Remnant; Wright recorded new parts and new arrangements of horn
parts at
Graphic Sound in October; and Waldmann recorded extra drum parts
with
Frere-Jones at Remnant in November of 1997. The last two songs to be
recorded - "Exeunt" and "Undersided" - were recorded at
Graphic Sound in
November of 1997 (including the cornet bit). Working closely together,
Frere-Jones and engineer Greg Frey then mixed and constructed the album
during November and December of 1997.
The material on Lifelike varies greatly in age. "Blood In The
Air"
is a song that appeared first in Ui's live set in 1993. "Acer
Rubrum" had been played live since early 1996. "News To Go
Farther" was
quoted on "Skeletons" on The Sharpie and has been around
since
1993, and "Molloy's March" is a song dating to 1994.
"Exeunt" was written
in the summer of 1997 for Lifelike while "Laceria" is a
brand new
sample bed laid under themes from a song played in the early 1990s by
Frere-Jones' previous band, Delores. And so on.
Some material heard on Lifelike was originally intended for other
releases. For instance, while working with Stereolab at Southern
Studios, London in June of 1996, Ui started recording a drum
'n' bass single entitled "Say", which has never been released in
it's
original form. Wright wrote and recorded horn parts and Waldmann played
drum parts which Frere-Jones sampled and sequenced. In the fall of 1996,
Luke Vibert used the rough tracks of "Say" for a remix
titled "Unknow",
available on United Mutations, Volume One (Lo). As 1996 came and
went, the band felt that the window of opportunity for a drum 'n' bass
single with long horn melodies had closed, so Frere-Jones and Frey
integrated the horn parts into existing songs during the mixing and
construction of Lifelike in late 1997.
"Blood In The Air", recorded in August of 1996, was originally
intended for the Techno Animal Versus Reality collaborative remix
album. When the tune was finished in April of 1997, the band realized it
had used none of Techno Animal's music, violating the original
concept of exchanging tapes and combining material. In August of 1997,
Frere-Jones created a new mix from both band's material, entitled The
Next Feeding", for Techno Animal.
Two songs on Lifelike - "Spilling" and "The Fortunate One
Knows No
Anxiety" - were recorded In February of 1997 and originally intended
for
an EP on Grand Royal records. But since Samuel Frere-Holmes'
expected arrival made it impossible to complete both an EP and a new album
before June of 1997, Ui reassigned these two songs to
Lifelike.
RELEASE DATE: APRIL 6, 1998
