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KENNY PROCESS TEAM
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KENNY PROCESS TEAM - FEAT MATT DEIGHTON - BIG BAD TRANQUILISER
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And on the 8th day God created music and saw it was a shambolic mess but he couldn't be bothered to erase it, so he threw the tape into the glove compartment of his special God car and hoped that no one would ever find it, a bit like in 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' or something. Then one day, a small child opened the glove compartment of an old wrecked God car that he found by the side of the road. Inside, he found an old festering cassette, so he took it home to his uncle who put it on. And lo it was still a shambolic mess.
But it did make him grin a bit.
Born sometime in the late 1980's Kenny Process Team was the baby monster of Matt Deighton, Paul Cannell, Todd Berry and Andy Golding. Recording sessions would take place in the cellar of 133 Halley Road in East London, or in a tiny studio called 'DeBretts' in Walthamstow. 'Debretts' was run by an engineer called John Debrett, son of legendary singing instructor Tona Debrett, who was known to Kenny as the daft old bat who had given singing instructions to Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols film 'The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle'. John would just let the band get on with it while he would twiddle a few knobs and create the 'Kenny Sound' from the mess of banjos, pump organs, harmonicas, ocarinas, murderers and bongos that would be emanating from the other room. Kenny would always record straight to cassette as they could never afford reels of 16 track tape. This ensured that no remixing was ever possible, so what you hear is what you get. The other thing about Kenny is that they would hardly ever play the same song twice, so both the music and Deighton's lyrics were made up there and then. Even on the rare occasion that they played live, songs would be plucked from nowhere and born and killed within minutes. The recordings at 133 Halley Road would be straight to Cannells 'Boom Box'. The quality of some of the songs which came out of that basement is scary.
Kenny Process Team tried to use anything they could find, including at one point a horn section, and recorded about 500 hours worth of songs before they just sort of stopped. Matt Deighton then went on to record a single under the name of Kenny Process Team before leaving the band. The 'other' Kenny Process Team then carried on for 12 years without any members of the original line up in the band. Legend has it that Cannell was at a Karate lesson one night and fought a bout with another student. They got talking and the subject got around to music. They then discovered that they were both drummers who drummed for a band called Kenny Process Team. Matt hadn't thought to tell anyone that there were two bands going with the same name. Matt Deighton went on to play guitar for Paul Weller, Oasis and Doctor John and now enjoys a successful solo career. Both Matt Deighton and Andy Golding have contributed the tapes for these CDR's. You can take them as they are or throw then in the glove compartment of your own car.
Kenny didn’t care then and he doesn't care now.
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