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sounding analogue record ever made. The most anal sounding record...which is what a lot of people don’t like about it... It was one long very exhausting grind... I got physically ill at the end of that record because I was so exhausted". Commenting on the relationships within the band at that time, he said "by that point we hated each other’s guts and didn't talk to each other for ten years".
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who had signed her to his label. Kesha and Gamson developed her song drafts which were initially guitar-based, and created a synth-heavy sound which "wasn’t a million miles away from
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Keyboard Magazine, "much of the album bears Gamson’s stamp. In fact, his handiwork shows up in virtually every aspect of the record, from programming to sequencing. His crisp, jabbing patches have a poke-in-the-ribs feel that hustles Scritti songs along, and
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at the time of its release, saying it "worked much better because Green and I developed our collaboration...I think things are much better placed on the new album...first off, it isn’t so busy". In later years he acknowledged the negative experience of making the album: "It was the most digital
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soundtrack. "It really appealed to me, that history of staff producers", Gamson said of his role in the company. "I always have mixed feelings about it, if you were on staff, a lot of times you were the guy that had to fix stuff that was broken, which usually, those are unfixable. Even with my
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471:, Scritti Politti's debut album. Shortly after the completion of the album he dismantled the band and was looking for a change of musical direction. Gamson assisted Gartside with arrangements for "
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Gartside in their first songwriting collaboration in over 20 years.
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soundtrack, and "Never Miss The Water" on Chaka Khan's 1996 greatest hits compilation. Some of Gamson's other work at Warner included co-writing and producing "Droppin’ Like Flies" for
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described the song "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)" as a "glistening beauty... The upside of the 80s". Perhaps the most well-known Scritti Politti enthusiast was
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JiveWire compilation cassette, along with Scritti Politti's "Asylums in Jerusalem". That was how Gamson and Green Gartside became aware of each other's work.
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on his own: Gamson and Maher appeared in the video for the first single, "Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)", but were absent from subsequent videos.
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composers really don't have an audience. I would rather communicate to a whole bunch of people. That's the reason we make music".
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