first position normal 7" on 45

our first record as position normal. it had different mixes of some of the sounds on the "stop your nonsense" album. pressed onto yellow custard vinyl. some were mistakenly pressed at 33rpm. we did the artwork. not on computer and sent by post to the printer on a3 card.

stop your nonsense version 1 2 and 3

  • this was put together from sounds made over a seven year spanmanship. a lot of the sounds were collected on a marantz portable tape recorder that i borrowed from newham college. loads of sounds from romford market and the london underground system. one sound that i still have but havn't used yet was of a kid at a pet shop in the market who was trying to teach a minor bird to say "fuck off nan you wanker". "say fuck off nan you wanker...fuck off nan you wanker" i didn't want to put any bad words on the album so it didn't get used.
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  • the tape recorder whilst being of top decent quality was massive. the microphone was also cumbersome. i had to wear a parker coat big enough to hide the machine and run the mic down the left arm. stand very still and fairly close to the subject. any movement from the left arm caused a dirty noise. in the ear earphones were on. some funny comedians called me a "pikey" as the parker was used as an oil rag at the garage my brother worked at. it took me around 3 days to get all the shit out before i could wear it. it was literally and without any exageration a minging rank clump of oil and grease. i nursed it back to more or less the shape of a coat and wore it with dumb fuck pride.
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  • info for the young at heart
  • 12" yellow vinyl, 45rpm. this was our first album released on mind horizon in 97 then 99 then again by the japanese label san san san and our own rum records in 2003 along with the re issue of goodly time album. we did the first artwork and lizzie finn did the second. completely made from materials and stitchwork. the original was made exactly 12x12" and was shrunk down to cd size. the first set of stop your nonsense vinyls were on the same yellow custard vinyl. both artworks not made on computer. most of the sounds were made on a yamaha mt120 4 track tape machine and emaxII sampler keyboard. "bucket wipe" was used on a film called "human traffic". the bit where howard marks does his talk on "spliff politics". pepay pepĂ©memimo was on suzy ewings film "domestic"


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