Well well well, the mighty swamp sound system has boldly stepped into the 21st century (finally).
All our old friends know of the musical explorations and collaborations - but all of our new internet friends were not there in the garage, the ghetto home studios, the naive short lived incarnations, the great sounding lineups which couldn't stay together...
So, as we start to establish this presence with the most important business of getting our new sounds out to people who are looking for something like what we're doing, we also will be sharing little bits of history. We do hope this is interesting to some of you...
Lets start by giving a few links:
This is where all our current material is being 'tested' mixes go up here and get replaced by new ones, thus the whole band and any interested fans can make comments and the sound develops. There are also a lot of old mixes and records, basement tracks etc. here.
Our latest material is from Drink & Food - an instrumental group started by Schweickie and Kali. We were listening to a lot of Jungle and Drum & Bass and being a drummer and bassist we thought, "Why don't we do some drum and bass the old fashioned way?" so we did. We have a few recordings of those jams on adat which were digitized before that format became completely obsolete - we will get a few posted one of these days. This is where "House on Haunted Hill" came from.
This also how "Train Unforgiven" came into its own as a fully developed tune.
Currently we are working on a House / Trance incarnation played by live musicians in real time. People seem to respond positively to the material and the rehearsals are huge. We will be gigging in a few months and its going to be so much fun - really REALLY fun material to play.
Also we are trying to get a lot of archive material posted there as well. Just added is the entire Alter Ego / Babylon representative album "Slush Puppies" - if you like old school punk rock have a listen. Ritchie's songs are hilarious and Schweickie and Hegs really rip it up. This was an amazing party band... r.i.p. Maybe if enough people bug us we'll get a reunion together.
1 comment:
wow, i was amazed to find my brothers songs on the internet! I think alter ego should have a reunion! i would love it!
Richards sis-Danelle
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