Tracks often turn in different directions for no apparent reason & without much influence from me.
Here is a track which never made the grade but which spawned another couple of tracks in the process of not making it…
It started in late 2005 with a track called ‘A Man Like Curtis’ which i had put together using samples from the ‘Short Eyes’ soundtrack: ‘A Man Like Curtis’
While looking for a section to take the track in another direction, I was working on this little sombre bit when i heard Dilla had died, so I uploaded it & called it ‘Blues For J Dilla’ as a tribute: ‘Blues For J Dilla’
Sometime down the line, I came back to the project & rewrote that section again, this time more upbeat, drums maybe influenced by Dangermouse’s work on ‘Crazy’ ?: New Beat
Still couldn’t get ‘A Man Like Curtis’ right but I liked ‘New Beat’ a lot, going back & working on it periodically until it became a track on the ‘Tones…’ album in 2008: Out Of The Cities & Into The Trees
More recently, I returned to the the downbeat section of ‘A Man Like Curtis’ as a base for the dread-meltdown of ‘Lee Marvin’, from the forthcoming ‘Dumb Heroes EP’ (here in a previously unheard, early extended form): Lee Marvin (Extended)
So the original track, ‘A Man Like Curtis’ has never found a home, until now.
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