"The original recording contains a BBC World Service news report from 1982 concerning the Falklands War. The broadcast is indistinct – distorted, muffled and blended with strange clicks and interference noises. Listening to it triggered some childhood memories (also distorted, muffled and blended) which inspired my piece.
I tried to make something both playful and sinister, referring to the way real-world horrors trickle into childhood games and fantasies. My track is based on two ideas: (1) The fictional soundtrack for the sort of videogame I would fantasise about when learning about wars. (2) Mysterious voices and sounds which I attributed to spies, ghosts or extra-terrestrials when I first messed around with a radio.
As well as the obviously sampled/processed parts of the recording in my track, I used it to make several of the “synth” sounds by looping short sections in a sampler. I also fabricated a “strange voice over the radio” recording of my own and used a recording of elect
