BREATHE
We recorded that straight
after "Firestarter. " And it was an instrumental
for ages. We were playing it on stage and the guys
were just dancing to it and stuff. It was just
like an instrumental track. And I thought that
it was so
obvious to put a vocal on it and I think what happened
is they came around and they knew the track anyway.
They'd been listening to it for about three months.
To tell you the truth, I think I wrote "Breathe"
before I did "Firestarter. " I wrote the
instrumental of "Breathe" about two months
before "Firestarter. " And then about
three or four months later I came around and literally
set
up a mic in the studio. I went into the lounge
for about half an hour, watched telly, come back
and they'd
done the vocals. It was quite a quick sort of thing
really. It was just a matter of sorting a couple
of
syllables out, getting them to fit in right with
the beats and then it was just plain sailing,
it was done.
Literally for that track it was just
like going in and experimenting with a couple of sounds.
The first opening line is like a really twangy old
guitar sound, really monotone sort of guitar sound.
I made that and that was made about six months before
we actually recorded the vocals. And it was just literally
that, with a beat on it. And all I did was throw some
loops down on a DAT. I basically just did that guitar
part. [sings] That riff and just threw a beat on there.
And just put it down as a loop onto DAT.
When we did the song, it was
about confrontation between [singer/dancer] Maxim
and Keith. There was no deep meaning. It was like,
you want to taste me, come over here and taste me.
And then Maxim was like, breathe me, breathe me...
It was just more of a confrontational thing between
them two. When they do it on stage, that comes across
really obviously. I'm not gonna sit here and try and
think of some deep meaning because it just hasn't
got one. "Firestarter" has but "Breathe"
hasn't. It's basically like a full-on, almost punk
dance track. It's kind of got the energy of our other
tracks but it's also got the edge of "Firestarter"
in a way. When you see it live, it's really confrontational
between them two. We just wanted to get that on record
and it just captured that live part of the show, you
know?<
- Liam Howlett
