Joe Goddard

This was the moment in time when Basement Jacks released their first album, which was for a kind of indie fan, was a good way of getting into house music.

So I was going clubbing and this kind of like indie version of dance music was exciting to me.

So when Alexis wrote this very gentle, delicate song,

I remember feeling like maybe this is a moment when we should try to be kind of embracing a different groove and trying something a bit more uptempo.

Like, let's try changing the context of this song entirely.

It's such a lovely song.

But to me, it felt like an exciting thing to suggest

going with something that we hadn't really ever done before, like having a go at a kind of style of music that felt kind of novel for us to do at the time.

It's a really simple, inexpensive instrument that I guess was like mass produced by Casio in the 80s.

It doesn't have a lot going for it in terms of like synthesis power, but essentially it was like the most important instrument for all of our songs at that time.

And even when we decided to make this kind of uptempo version, it's used for almost all of the sounds on the song.

I remember Alexis playing the bass line with this kind of lolloping rhythm.

Within the next two or three hours, we put down most of the major elements.

Yeah, so I did a lot of experimenting with effects on each of those little parts.

And so I just spent hours and hours cutting up these little bits of audio and moving them until they were perfect and kind of playing with the delays on these notes because we wanted the groove of this thing to just be super kind of tight and funky and mechanized.

So it was a matter of like moving stuff around until it felt right and then looping that.

Previous to this, I'd just been using drums from our Casio keyboard and cut them up.

But at that time, I was learning about taking drums from other tracks.

So I sampled a kick drum from this DFA remix of Decepticon by La Tigra.

Really great remix.