Leeds based Electronica producer Neko Neko is clearly a man not shy of an ambitious project. Last year he reworked the whole of Pink Floyds seminal ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ into a brilliant collection of remixes which offered a completely unique take on the album whilst still paying homage to the original.
Following well received releases on Manchester label My First Moth, Neko has unveiled his latest effort, entitled the ‘Readers Digest Tape’. The concept is fairly simple, after picking up a god-awful box set of ‘Hit’ records from a charity shop, Neko decided to make something listenable out of the ‘easy listening, middle of the road crap’ using his impressive collection of recorders, synths and drum machines.
A guiding set of self imposed rules worked to make the project more of a challenge, and a lot more interesting from an outside perspective. These include;
1. Samples to be used only from the records in the boxset.
2. Drum breaks are allowed to be used from other records, seeing as there are none on the boxset ones.
3. Synths can be used to make basslines and sounds but no melodies or main parts of the song can be instrument based, only samples from the boxset.
4. There are equipment limitations mainly that only analog equipment can be used, apart from mastering on the computer.
The resulting demos are to be broadcast live this coming Monday night on Neko Neko’s Ustream channel at 9pm. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/neko-neko-streams
More info here on the Neko Neko website, and here on Facebook
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