Q's Discography

Music has always been a big part of my life. I started playing the clarinet and drums while in grade school. I moved on to playing the bells in accompaniment for the school chorus in the holiday pageant in middle school. By my freshman year in high school, my attendance at various night clubs (several times a week) got me drafted for the school radio station in High School. The administration thought we were just playing records over the loudspeakers at lunch. Secretly, we had set up a micro transmitter and formed a pirate station that lasted for almost two years. With such a solid underground education, making the transition to more accessible material has been a bit of a challenge but its also been really fun too!

Barbary Boys

Song Titles: When House Was Home
B/w: Hangin' Round

I originally wrote this song as a poem to be read at my pal Billee's club night called, 'The Bored Collective'. She stopped running the night so it languished for a while until I put it to music. I've got a rough version put together of these tracks and I booked some studio time to finish them up.

Barbary Boys

Song Titles: Possibilities
B/w: Surrender Tonight

I've got a rough version put together already. Strictly Rhythm recording artist, Ira Levi did the vocals on "Possibilities" a few years ago. It's been awhile since I've done an actual song and I'm really excited about this. I've decided that this project is so special, I'll have to work on other things until I learn more about my equipment and the process. I still need to find a vocalist for the B side, but otherwise it's finished.

Inner Stellar Feller

Track Title: Wutz up Wit Dat?
B/w: Singing Someday

This project is almost done. I've decided it needs a sharper bassline. It's a really jazzy two-step track, which is probably a bit dated now but there's always the option of a remix to make it more contemporary. I still need to find someone to play standup bass for me. (Yes I do incorporate live musicians)

Barbary Boys

Track Title: In the Twilight
B/w: Together

There's some test pressings of this 12 inch floating around. There's been some talk about including one of these tracks in a compilation, but so far, it's just talk and the project has languished.

Future Legends

Track Title: I called you
B/w: Melodic Mayhem

Unreleased. This project is still sitting on Markie Mark's computer (the wicked DJ, not the model/actor/singer). I started a new day job, and he started taking courses at college again, so it was easy to get a slack attack where this project is concerned. I've basically given up on trying to push things forward with it.

Foxglüv

Track Title: L.O.V.E.
B/w: Foxgluvya

We got some pals ( Doc Martin, Crispin J. Glover, and M.A.P. Productions) to remix the two trax. Combined with the mixes we did, it was released in America as an E.P. called "Cult Uv 8" on Primal Records

Foxglüv

Track Title: L.O.V.E.
B/w: Foxgluvya

E.G. and I first got the idea for this in '95, but it took us a while to sort it out and actually get in the studio together. The Akashic Records version is rare (didn't get a wide release) and was really only a test pressing. But it did get air play on London's pirate radio station Girls FM and alternative radio station XFM.

The Faith-Keepers

Track Title: Hold on to the Love
B/w: Galactic Groove

Unreleased. The DATs are missing... I lost them somewhere in my house in South London. Matt Moose and I tore the place up looking for the tapes, but neither of us ever found them. I think they got mixed up with Lexi Love's DATs when he moved out so there's always hope that he'll get around to listening to the stack of 'em.

Pukka Pals

Track Title: Think Happy Thoughts
B/w: Uh, uh, Baby

Unreleased. This is the one I did with Lexi Love, my flatmate in London. This was the first track inspired by the Smurf. I would ring him up and he would say, "I was just thinking about you" Of course I had to reply, "REALLY, what were you thinking?" and he would just answer, "Happy Thoughts"

2CB

Track Title: Simulacrum Sound
B/w: Be the key (to unlock the house)

Turbo Ted helped me put this one together, but we didn't have a 303 and no access to one. I wanted to replicate the tripped out sounds it makes though. Luckily for me, Love and Rockets were in town for a while working on an album. Kevin Haskins gave me a bunch of really cool sounds and I used a few for this track and then the disc was promptly lost amongst the mess in the offices of "From San Francisco with Love" record label (cheers Steve and Charles!)

Musical Proof

Track Title: Pass the Dutchman and his Delft pan bride
B/w: Lass on much E for a left out ride

Both are strictly instrumental trax and a bit of a piss take really. One has a darker edge to it with fuller bass tones, but they're basically the same track just arranged differently.

Bandit Band

Track Title: Big city of Dreams
B/w: Damn Fly Guy

This is just a white label release. We couldn't afford to pay for the samples and we didn't really know what we were doing. Only 500 "promotional" copies were done up. I lost everything I owned in a fire in 1990 so stop asking about getting a copy.

Mr. Purple and His Animated
Sex Waffles

Song Title: Animate your Body
B/w: Dick Clark in Bondage

Besides introducing me to the Monkees (my all-time favourite pop band), Rodney Bingenheimer introduced me to a guy called Bill. (We actually called him Turtle Bill, because of his mop-top haircut he looked like a turtle). This crazy little project is the result. Mr. Purple was supposed to be a giant purple robot (oh so Robotech! and done to great effect by Sigue Sigue Sputnik, but theirs was red) We played live once in Huntington Beach Park. We all dressed in yellow (the colour of waffles) though I don't think anyone really understood it. I brought along my triangle and our pal Jade banged on some Tupperware to simulate the drums for a "live" element. Otherwise, it was just us twiddling knobs in the late 80's...