When I was 10, my dad played The Beatles' 'Revolution 9' to me. I'd only been properly paying attention to music for a few months and immediately the barriers were blown away: music had no need for melody, harmony, rhythm, structure or even conventional instruments. For some time afterwards, my friend Richard and I attempted to recreate the piece's collage nature, and although never reaching satisfactory results, some interesting sounds came from the recordings. It is from these sessions, along with other tapes I recorded between 1996 and 1999, that Revolution 1 & 2 are built. The best excerpts from our 30 'Revolution' recordings are featured alongside field recordings, tape manipulation, guitar and microphone feedback, long wave radio recordings, casio keyboard, acoustic guitar, mandolin, plunderphonics and spoken sections.

The remaining tracks are some of my personal favourites from those tapes, from noisy experiments to guitar and keyboard compositions. All very lo-fi and messy.