exogenesis by The British Stereo Collective

Towards the end of February 2023, I contacted Mark Price of ShadowLab with the proposal of “making an album in two-days-to-a-week, tops!”. We had worked together under various guises for several decades (latterly as The Eternal Machine) so I was confident we could do it and we had intended for many years to make our “free-form album”.

I arrived at Mark’s own Bomark Studios on the 28th of February, armed with a couple of arpeggiating sequences. We then created two or three more sequences and improvised some melodic lines. The following day Mark sent over all the stems and I began the week-long task of editing and sculpting the elements into a cohesive album, with Mark sending additional materials he’d created throughout the week and me composing and recording some extra bits whilst selecting and honing some of Mark’s melodic improvisations from the original recording day.

The result is an album that sounds (and is) largely improvised over a few hours of recording at two separate studios, then sculpted and honed over the course of a week.

Phil Heeks, The British Stereo Collective

Phil Heeks draws inspiration from classic ‘70s/80s TV theme compilations, film soundtracks and sound effects LPs.