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here
is some information about Backslider by Alan Wilder
AW:
While we were recording in Texas, I asked Joe if he had
any other songs to run by be. He came up with 'Backslider'
- which I believe is a generic term for ‘falling
off the wagon’ in relation to any kind of addiction.
After we had recorded his band playing the song, Joe and
I decided to slow down the multitrack to lower the speed
and key which created a sleazier sound. I left Texas with
a week’s worth of recordings on a palm-sized drive,
got back to England, loaded everything into ProTools and,
in this case, stripped their performance back while adding
new elements of my own. My thinking was to increase the
sleaze factor further as well as heighten the atmosphere
with a backdrop of dub effects, new grooves and an evocative
girl's voice sample during the final section. (In fact,
the girl’s voice was something re-worked from an
older Recoil track.) Right at the very end, almost as
a surprise for Joe, I added a recording of him in solo
playing a funny tune on the harmonica. He didn't know
we had recorded it at the time and I thought it was a
humorous and fitting way to finish the album.
‘subHuman’ took me a year to complete, with
a lot of self-doubt, hair-pulling and computer-tantrums
thrown in. I hope it was worth it and that people will
enjoy the results.
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