Monday, May 19, 2008

Broken

If Someone Else's Dream was a relic from the turn of the century, then Broken is most definitely a relic from the Empires era.

This one was originally started around Christmas 2002, around the same time that we were working on Here We Stand. Somehow it missed out on being on Empires, entirely failed to be on Dusk, and failed to be on any of the seven singles that we released in the meantime. And then we recorded and mixed it, saw that it wasn't that bad, and eventually put it on The End.

That wasn't really a terribly exciting story, so here are two more facts, which may or may not be of interest...
  1. It uses lots of sampled sounds from a Korg Prophecy

  2. It contains a siren sound that is suspiciously similar to the noise from Visage's astonishingly good Fade to Grey*


* If any lawyers are reading this, we would like to make it clear that this doesn't mean it was stolen, because it wasn't. Your honour.