Children of the Bong

Check out this article on Backseat Mafia - https://www.backseatmafia.com/scratch-the-surface-children-of-the-bong-sirius-sounds/ Lots of insight about each track on the album! 👍

Hi Jimmy, I just realised I never got back you about the lyrics 🤭 On Underwater dub, the vocals are ‘music and roots get together’ and later, ‘guys you know, music is music’ The chants are used more for the texture than what they say which is to say I’ve no idea what they’re saying even though they’re mostly me and Daniel doing them, probably channeling some kind of universal language!! 😂 we usually added them when we had run out of synth sounds and needed a human element. Hope that was worth waiting a year for 😬☺️✌️

Glad you enjoyed the Euphonic tracks! I’m working on my own stuff and will be releasing tracks as Rob Bong in the future. I’ve also been reworking some COTB tracks for a live set a the Bearded Theory Festival in May. Will try and check out the show tonight! R Ps love the framed vinyl 😍

Thanks for the invite! I had a quick listen to the tracks on there and sounds quite similar to the Euphonic project I did after Children of the Bong. It was re-released last year on Banoffee Pies Records, check out https://banoffeepiesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/low-orbit-archives Not strictly 145bpm but definitely the same vibe! What name do you go under? R

Thank you Gary, glad it still gets a listen! I’ve gone back to the Prophet a few times in my life - it definitely provided a few gems of wisdom! 😇

I’m sure there’s something up our very long sleeves!!

Haha! Spot on ☺️ Haven’t even put it on the website or Instagram yet!

Hi there, well I can tell you it’s not a COTB track but as to what it is I don’t know...🤷‍♂️ Sounds a bit like early Eat Static but not one of theirs that I’ve heard! Anyone else?

Haha! Hilarious! Reminds of this old advert: https://youtu.be/mxELSzay2lc 😂

Mmmm that’s a good one! I think first you need to tell me what words you hear... could be a laugh! 😁

I think the biggest influence on making the album was experiencing music at different clubs, free parties & festivals. I seem to remember discussing with Dan that we wanted to make music that could be played anywhere, be it on a massive sound system with 1000s of people or at home by yourself. Either way we wanted people to lose themselves in it and go on a journey as we had done ourselves with other music. Music that influenced us at the time were bands like the Orb, Aphex twin, Pink Floyd, King Tubby, Dub Syndicate, Eat Static, Augustus Pablo, Tangerine Dream, Steve Hillage/System 7, Brian Eno, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Ravi Shankar, Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone, the Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix..... off the top of my head but literally any music we heard would be devoured! Nearly all of the tracks were inspired by sounds we had made with synths or sampled and manipulated and built the tracks around that. We probably spent days playing around with a noise and experimenting with the limited equipment we had before writing a track with it! Fun times!! 🤪 R.x

Well, if you’re only going to have 8 tracks on an album, they better be good ones!! 😂

Haha! Really happy that we were able to provide with some inspiration one way or another! Stay creative ;) Rx

Glad you found us!! It’s funny you ask about unreleased material as I’ve been going through all the tracks that didn’t make it on to Sirius Sounds and stuff we did after and there are some great tracks! We were limited to what we could fit on to a double vinyl and CD in those days and as the tracks were long we could only put 8 on there! It would be a good 25th anniversary celebration to get it all out there ....so watch this Space ;) Rx

Those guys had an amazing live show! (And sound!)

Nice to hear from you Terry and thanks for your lovely comments! Did you ever get to any of the live shows if you were around then? No plans to get back together at the moment although we did meet up a while back and we just picked up where we left off 20 years ago!

Haha! Thanks for the love❤️! It’s a difficult one that, as our influences were quite wide... there’s a post on the Psynews site about it too: https://www.psynews.org/forums/topic/22801-children-of-the-bong-sirius-sounds/page/2/. If you haven’t done so already, check out the other stuff on Planet Dog records as we all had a similar vibe running through the music! Let me know how you get on 😉

How nice is that?!! Thanks for the love 💗 Rx

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