- RELEASED: September 1996
- FORMAT: 2xLP/CD
- LABEL: NINJA TUNE
- CAT No.: ZEN25 / ZENCD25
- DESIGN: Openmind
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Brown
- EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune page / BUY
Vadim’s first album proper and he let me do pretty much what I wanted. He liked the distressed look and was very much into recording different objects to use as concrete sounds within his productions. He bought some of these items round which Nancy Brown photographed and I then distressed by scratching and adding bleach to burn away parts of the images. At the time I was heavily into the comic collage work of Dave McKean and the graphics of Vaughn Oliver at V23 and elected to make a 3D construction using an old hot metal type tray I had acquired from college.
I had to scan the tray section by section and then knit it together in Photoshop which took an age as I was using a Mac LC475 which was ridiculously slow by today’s standards. I remember thinking I would never finish it on time as I was constantly waiting for the image to save back when Macs had bars running from left to right rather than spinning beach balls. We did it as a gatefold because the type tray image wrapped around the cover and we were heavily into jazz and classical sleeves at the time which used them a lot.
This artwork is now lost as the Syquest disc it was on corrupted and I didn’t have backup, the repro company didn’t keep back up or films – unfortunately the fate of a few projects other from around the time too including Mark B’s ‘Underworld Connection’ EP for Jazz Fudge.