Halloween is the 5th anniversary of White Girl Lust. Since Clay and I are sentimental little girls, we thought we would recount the start of WGL in all it’s self indulgent eloquence in the weeks leading up to Halloween.
We last left off with the final drum ‘n bass tunes Sabotage and I wrote but that was only the start. This was right when the idea of “anything goes” began to apply to dance music. DFA had just dropped “Beat Connection” & “House of jealous Lovers”, 2 Many DJs were only a few parts deep in “As Heard on Radio Soulwax”, blogs were still just a funny word to DJs, and although Final Scratch had just appeared on the scene, it was a clunky piece of shit.
Clayton, Shawn, and I began fooling around with writing a little taste of everything under the sun. We started off making Clayton multi-track himself playing every instrument in the rock band of our dreams… I mean this was a whole new world to us. The dude PLAYED INSTRUMENTS. Shawn and I earned our keep by putting distortion and delay on everything. Most these tracks were total trainwrecks of ill inspiration (except for the Tom Waits-esque ballad Clay and I wrote for Shawn’s trial separation from his GF – that shit was epic) and will never be heard by humans, but in me reviewing a long forgotten hard drive I found one thing that has some type of value.
We borrowed a 303 and Clay figured out how to program it. We tracked him on drums, recorded the 303, plugged in a mic and went totally apeshit. Yeah, it is nothing we would ever put out. Yeah, it gets much too nutty by the end. Yeah, at one point I sound like a screaming banshee being sodimized… but there is a little hint of something that would become Solid Bump Records 5 years later.
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