I used to think it was my destiny to build a Polynesian longship in my garage out of matchsticks, then I thought it was to be the Prince of Chichester, sole monarch over its 50,0000 inhabitants, but after banging into to the unfathomably talented Gribbly at a MuMagic shed party (replete with 30 foot tentacles) and having one of those points in your life where you look back and go "oooh" and perhaps even "aaaah" at the ridiculously unlikely-ness of it all, It soon became apparent that noodling musical nibblings was more antennae than fad and Superfluid was born.

The name Superfluid was one of those post Virtua Fighter moments where Cam had been watching a *fascinating show on hydraulics and the term Superfluid seemed to capture what we earnestly wanted to sound like. Super and Fluid, two words that don't easily spring to the forefront when seeing us in action but a bit of positive imaging never goes astray.

*boring

Dragging Abunai, L33T and Graeman (as packhorses mostly) into the drizzling fog infested darkness 4 billion miles from civilisation to play to the trees seemed portentious of things to come as they're all now an integral part of the SuperFluid crew for which a lot of the blame for the 1st album must firmly rest if it bombs miserably at the box office.

8-bit crunch refers to our predilection of all things old skool computer game and crusty with the old C64 and it's unbelievably versatile SID chip being the main offender in our sonic arsenal. Gribbly even got to meet Rob hubbard!, a name which will register only on the most hardcore geeks but something of which I am immeasurately jealous.

The tracks themselves have been born, re-born, re-re-born, re-incarnated as a small Tibetan yak called Gerald and then finally plonked onto the album after much love, time and Dr Pepper. SF use a lot of samples which get looped and mutilated in Reason, our MPC, Acid and Soundforge along with a trillion zillion ninja plug-ins of joy and get noodled with until a track emerges. there's rarely any great master plan in effect but influences from what we think is groovy at the time seems to filter through however subliminaly. Main influences would proabably be Yoko Kanno, Amon Tobin, DJ Sensei, Mr Oizo, Mr Scruff, Dj Soup and the like. For those caring about hardware between us we've managed to amass a lot of crap that sits around gathering dust. Our C64 and Amiga get a good rodgering for sounds as do the SNES, MegaDrive and any other 8/16bit system we can raid.

There's no subtext to SuperFluid nor any message we'd like to convey to the universe. 8-bit crunch is just a bunch of sounds by a bunch of mates having a laugh.

Keeny Bean Triffic.

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