![]() It was a crazy time.” “The outro is the sound you get when slightly squeezing the trigger on a mini battery powered drill whilst the drill head is being held so it can’t move.” Dystopia TdV: “This was our first public hand at a very new thing called dubstep, which we didn’t really understand. “When working on this album, we’d get up around midday, eat some breakfast, go to the studio an hour later, work, work, get a sandwich from the butcher shop in the Ebbingestraat, go back, eat it in the studio, work, play some games, go for dinner at Simplon’s Jongerenhotel or Restaurant Maf, go back to the studio, work, have drinks, work, finish around 2 in the morning, maybe go out somewhere, sleep, repeat. This had been sitting on our drive for very long and we always wanted to do something with it, so we put it on our album. ![]() The outro is the sound you get when slightly squeezing the trigger on a mini battery powered drill whilst the drill head is being held so it can’t move - video material of us explaining this during the recording of our weekly Noisia Radio show is available.” Paper Doll Thijs de Vlieger: “Another sweet little segue. It’s a bit dry, because there were no bass traps, diffusers, or absorbers. We initially had no idea they had the lyricism and gothic doom this track ended up about.” Diplodocus MvS: “This was the very first track that was written in that studio. ![]() Soul Purge MvS: “Exploring each others’ depths in the studio was a big part of the excitement of working with Foreign Beggars again. Like in Machine Gun, we still really like how this track warps through a couple of different dimensions that are parallel but definitely separated - there’s the 80s sci-fi intro, then the bass drop, and then the weird Michael Jackson dance-off scene”. Obviously a lot of our music is influenced by sci-fi, but it was never as obviously articulated as in this tune. ![]()
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