Hug Me Till You Drug Me is a song recorded whilst mixing my new Alien Skin album, Negative Plus. It gets tedious working with the same album songs over and over again so I took a couple days off to create Hug Me Till You Drug Me.
I demo'd quite a number of tracks back in the 1990s, mostly destined for Real Life, some became songs when David Sterry wrote a lyric and tune. I took my album mix break by listening to some of these digitized cassette recordings. 'Connect Me to You' (as the demo was called) grabbed my attention so I assembled a collage of lyrics I had and began recording vocals. The plan was to re-record them again later but I kept the original takes as being good enough. I get bored easily.
For those interested in minutiae:
I vaguely remember creating the instrumental in 1996. I had just bought an Apple PowerMac and used it to text- speak the words 'connect me to you - sever me from you'. It was pretty exciting at the time to get a computer to speak. That boxy grey piece of hardware with a CPU of 75mhz and 16MG of RAM cost me over $AUD 3,000. Today the cheapest smart phone has more power and versatility. And considering the PowerMac was more powerful than computers that landed a manned spacecraft on the moon in 1969, I'd say we've come a long, long way technologically! BTW, that Apple voice was put to better (and lucrative) use a few years later by Benny Benassi with his track, Satisfaction.
During that era all the music I created was solely done on an Ensoniq ASR10 sampler and an Atari computer. This included all my Real Life work both studio and live. No synths. In 1998 we toured America and Germany as well as home, and that keyboard in its road case weighed so much it was half my own weight. Carrying it across continents probably contributed to my lower back issues today. Primitive, but it was a great bit of equipment at the time.
And so we come to Connect Me To You. Listening to it around New Year's eve, I was inspired to write a vocal, record it and release it. The grit of the original cassette recording adds to the excitement for me. Those was the days of FatBoy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy. I very much identified with that milieu during this period.
Hug Me Till You Drug Me It can be streamed everywhere and a download is available from my Bandcamp shop where i also include the instrumental, Faust On The Dead Planet, recorded on the same 1996 cassette.
I also made a YouTube music video-
LYRIC-
hug me till you drug me kiss me till i'm in a coma
your cold mouth of winter, tombstone grey
the smell of mortuary flowers beneath the sulphur skies
butter yellow sun, tired cadaverous eyes
honey heavy due of slumber honey heavy due of slumber
honey heavy due of slumber honey heavy due of slumber
hug me till you drug me kiss me till i'm in a coma
your kodac eyes snap tight on my drumbeat heart
the smell of mortuary flowers beneath the sulphur skies
butter yellow sun drops, look into my eyes
honey heavy due of slumber honey heavy due of slumber
honey heavy due of slumber honey heavy due of slumber
connect with me connect, connect with me connect
connect with me connect, connect with me connect