@alex

I love the story of how Dummy was made: apparently the guys would listen to old records for inspirations but then hire real-life pro session musicians to record legally distinct pastiches and then they would press polyvinylchloride LPs out of those new recordings then they'd absolutely bang to pieces those records so that they sounded pld & vintage and then they'd work their DJ magic and then they'd send those pristine magic tracks to Gibbons, who was working remotely.

And then what she sent back would be completely remixed, reordered, resampled, reshuffled, repitched, re-messed up by her. (Or so I've bee told. It sounds so wild.) And the end result as we all know is magic, and it trailblazed the cherished Bristol trip hop sound. Love it ♥︎