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Papua New Guinea Translations
Runtime: 4:38
With chunky breakbeats and synth swells, ‘The Great Marmalade Mama in the Sky’ is one of two tracks on Translations that feels like it could have come from a ’90s FSOL record. Indeed, it has more than a hint of the 1997 sessions to it, a surprisingly dark and heavy track. Beginning with the filtered vocal sample from the previous track, it very quickly gets going with breakbeats and booming bass; electric guitars and feedback might be sampled, as they are uncredited in the booklet; various samples from the original are sprinkled over the track, from single chiming sounds to flutes, ‘gulls’, synth swells and vocals, making it feel like a close cousin of 1997’s ‘The Shining Path’. The official description: “closer than anything so far to ‘Papua New Guinea’ and yet how could it be? Industrial breaks, screaming guitars, feedback, galvanic noises welded to the unmissable chants and gulls of the original.” If anything on Translations feels defiantly FSOL, it’s ‘The Great Marmalade Mama in the Sky’.
Credits
Written by Brian Dougans / Garry Cobain.
Produced and mixed by FSOL @ The Galaxial Pharmaceutical, London 2001.
Engineered by Yage & Stone Freshwaters.
Electric boxes – Stone Freshwaters.
Voices – One Man Band of Cosmos.
Drums, percussion – Herb Moons.
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