NAPHTA – LONG TIME BURNING

CD1
Untitled (1:20) 150.6 BPM
People People (1:50) 127.5 BPM
All Kinda Style (2:4cool 150.6 BPM
Upriver (2:32) 170 BPM
Ambient Rudeboy (1:32) 85 BPM
Babylon Babies (2:17) 85 BPM
My Heart Beating (1:53) 71.791 BPM
Long Story (2:09) 104.075 BPM
The Creed (2:43) 83 BPM
Still Sampling II (2:45) 120.5 BPM
Can’t Stop / Won’t Stop (8:03) 169.7/ 91.198 BPM

CD2
Copy Rider (5:55) 170 BPM
I Need U / Draw Near (4:56) 170 BPM
Soundclash 1 (VIP Mix) (6:09) 170 BPM
Prince Trojan (6:0cool 170/ 122.324 BPM
Jungle Republic (Steppers Mix) (5:15) 172 BPM
Bagman Skank (5:15) 172 BPM
Fully Loaded (5:40) 170 BPM
Street Dancing (5:00) 149.741 BPM

Jungle Republic (RickyForce Remix) (6:00?) 172 BPM?

So: here’s what’s available for the album – selection and arrangement as yet to be finalised. I’m into the idea of you playing your reggae fx box on top and in between to help link up tracks, give a bit of continuity and generally create a bit of live vibe throughout (a vocalist would be ideal to fulfil that task but I don’t think you’re quite up to that yet!). Anyway, the fx box bizness could be interesting, and fun to do, so get on it and record some ideas! In the meantime, some random pointers with regards to the overall arrangement of the tunes…

Some of the tunes, esp. the slower ones with vocal samples are ‘message’ tunes… as such they need to be arranged with that in mind throughout the album.. whereas some tunes eg. I Need U or SC1 or Prince Trojan are more er… party tunes J Obviously too many messages spoil the broth so some of em will have to go… try a few different suggested arrangements if you can just to see what we might come up with….

I found that putting Upriver / Copy Rider somewhere about half way through the overall tracklisting helped make things flow a little darker and more minimal for a spell, which helped change gear from the er.. party stuff J previous to it (Upriver should run right into Copy Rider i.e. Copy Rider actually begins on top of the looping atmospheric ting that runs at the end of Upriver… a segue, if you will)

I don’t want 2 Amen tunes in a row… keeping em separated in the tracklisting is good I think

I thought of running Jungle Republic and Bagman Skank together – cos they’re derived from the same rhythm… but it’s not essential really…

The very end of Long Story… like the last beat or two – not the zany sped-up loops (!) ends a little funnily – a slight edit or delay there should fix that depending on what (if anything) is coming after it… or maybe some reggae fx box stuff over the end..?

Ambient Rudeboy is made of Fully Loaded-type samples and was thus intended as a kind of intro piece to Fully Loaded… so if it’s not used in relation to Fully Loaded I’m not too fussed about including it at all

Won’t Stop (the ‘urban’ ting) starts just after Can’t Stop finishes… i.e. it should begin just as the last delay on Can’t Stop fades out, with a very slight overlap between the two… another segue of sorts, also if you will

I’m giving you a few different edits of that Still Sampling tune … might do some more fucked up shit with the end of this yet.. I’m open to suggestions on that one…. It is about fucking with samples after all!

Written & produced by Naphta at The Cave, Parnell St., Dublin

Thanks to the following:

For Support: Droid, Elmo, Mully, Don Rosco & Stacks, Safetyboy, RickyForce & Barry Delta, Queen B, Duffah, DC, Slug, Eamonn Doyle, Sie (Troubled Soul), Beta 2, John Doe, Fanu, Pieter K, Rollers/Sparkers, Big Jabba, Elaine, all family & friends that helped out - and to all those who kept me alive while I was chipping away deep in The Cave… thank you.

For Inspiration: Deckjunkie, DJ Cool C, Fadda Foul (Worries Cru), Dev Paradox, Triple A, all original hardcore Jungle DJs & producers, Simon Reynolds, and too many music-makers to mention…

Shouts to: Neil @ Outlaw Records (original dedicated breakbeat merchant), Ian Slevin (Saturday morning Jungle show cru), Neil Duignan (original hardcore style), Rohan, Nivard and all Bassbin cru past & present, Galli-far-I, Alestan (geezah!), The Golden Maverick, Steve ‘Dark Lord’ Kearns, Ronan ‘L Dopa’ Doyle, Jerome, Chris D, Code (Subtle Audio/Nu Killa Kru), Source, Jet Li & all original Jungle Republic cru… also Sandy Senses, IchiOne cru, Bambu cru, MC Quest One, Polska, Judge, Kato, Hago and all original Belfast and Nor’ern Junglists (maximum respect to Big Chip aka FlipFlop), Beckett, WigWig, Firehouse Skank cru, Worries cru, Scott Logan, DJ Dara, Paul C, Breaker, Bonz, Gerry, all @subvertcentral.com & irishdrumandbass.com, www.powerfm.org, also all @rolldabeats.com and emusonacid.com. Big up the Green Man and Selektor the cat… No love to those who sold their souls: you know who you are.