Of late I've done some reworkings of older tracks, particularly two from my debut albatross, International Travel. It's funny what a difference a couple of years make. While keeping some of the original loops the same, I've otherwise taken a different take entirely.

I used to find remixes to be so much drywank, but after listening through a DVD of old KLF mixes (many of which were much better than the 'official' versions) I find the ethos quite cool. There's no one definitive version of anything. Of course, this is also a bit maddening, because however much you might like a track now, you know that in two months time you'll have another idea that will make it sound even better. It makes the whole releasing business a bit hopeless.

In fact in some ways you could say that tracks that you can't think of anything more to do with are worse than those you can. You can no longer work that seam. The mine is closed.

As for International Travel, I listened back to it for the first time in maybe 18 months and was amazed at how weird it was. I had thought the disk a bit boring, dated and obvious, but on listening it seemed a lot more disjointed and avant garde than I'd remembered. There are a couple of tracks that are wincingly bad, in terms of production, but the overall concept was pretty sound. I still have about 50 disks if anyone's interested. If nothing else, I am proud of the cover photos, taken in Japan by my partner Sally. Probably more evocative than the music within, sadly. (How often do you get that these days? Enticing posters of new albums which you know will just be the same old boring rock when you get down to it.)

It's been two years since International Travel, and it would be nice to do something new. I had a plan to release something at age 33 1/3, like Bill Drummond. I'm 33 1/3 right now, but there's no new Aquaboogie compilation. Well, I was never a big LP purchaser.

Sadly, the Aquaboogie brand has been subsumed into wider Malty Media dominion. Unfortunately I never had quite enough of a defined style for me not to just start writing Aquaboogie tracks that could be subsumed into the MM milieu (just add jokey vocal samples!). And to be honest, I find working in collaboration much more fun than working on my own. But if these reworkings come to anything I might put them out. Just to keep up with co-label mogul Andy.