There's a story behind all the releases I've put out in recent years. I usually try not to bore people with the details, but this one is about my own mental health crisis back in the mid noughties. The upshot was, I ended up trying to do the ultimate unthinkable. Luckily, I failed in my attempt, and ended up seeing a psychologist for a number of sessions. Music has always been around for me, when I'm high or when things aren't so good, and I wrote these tracks roundabout that period. I see them as a reflection of my experiences of the journey through clinical therapy. And in addition, the act of writing them was probably my own therapy for myself, letting things out in the form of music, though I most likely didn't see it at the time. The tracks chart my progress from initial complete alienation at the start of therapy, through to the light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the session programme. The original track was written and completed in 2004, and the other versions would have been started roughly at the same time, with additional production to complete them taking place this year (2019). To my ears, they're as ever my own take on Techno - Detroit's in the mix, but also Sheffield, and of course current hometown Manchester. The Soundcloud algorithm heard disco, but also synthpop, electronic rock and chiptune. So we can probably agree on influences such as Cabaret Voltaire, UR and Robert Gordon. 100 COPIES IN VINTAGE BATIK SLEEVE WITH NUMBERED INFO INSERT...