Paddington Hardstare was recorded when I first moved back to Walthamstow in 1999. Very much in the psychogeographical camp at the time - I was writing pieces for Rob Marsden's Parasol Post zine where the flying Zali-Paddington image first appeared.
As I wrote at the time:
"harking back to the guitar sound (but mostly played on a spanking new danelectro!) of the v3.0 tape and reintroducing the lovely casio rz-1 drumbox. more instrumental than the the goats & the peacock and featuring a more intensive use of the found sound technique. between the opener reconstructing home and the final piece of shit the disk(tape) chronicles the birth, life and death of a flat from moving in to moving out. perhaps a little slim in comparison with the goats but has an increasingly melodic sound. mixed and mastered at forest road."
