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It's no secret that we are great fans of the lovely Polly Scattergood here on Analog Suicide.

It was a thrill to remix her song 'Nitrogen Pink' (see this post), so I was quite happy when Polly asked me to remix  the final single from here newly released album, "Bunny Club". What appears to me as a  tangled tale of a young girl working in a nightclub, this song is quite simply a great display of Polly's lyrical genius, paired with another of Polly's strongest traits - the ability to seamlessly balance unsettling sonic darkness with pink- hard- candy sweetness.

Photo above: Polly & Tara in Bristol, May 2009

As soon as we landed on the East Coast and set up shop, the stems were gathered and we set about cooking the Analog Suicide Mix.  I felt we could build a sort of sonic funhouse for 'Bunny Club', painting an alternate world inspired by the drama of '70's disco, sugary sweet, Disney inspired backing vocals atop crunchy electronic drums & a bass line line I can only describe as "what rubber popcorn might sound like when it pops"....all the while retaining the dark undercurrent. 

The bass line appeared first, a combination of the most excellent ES 1 in Logic and synchronized bleeps from my beloved Pro One, which was then tweaked through my Moogerfooger Lo Pass Filter. I use this synth on just about everything, such as in this remix:

Next, The drums are a blend of a few different sets in Native Instruments' Battery 2 - quite simply a juicy bit of software that I simply cannot live without. Flexible, diverse and customizable, I find it impossible not to use this!  

With the drums & bass anchored in place, we called upon the lovely powers of G Force software and their fantastic String Machine and M Tron Pro to create a dreamy sea on which Polly's vocal could set sail. The String Machine is a wonderfully equipped weapon filled with every kind of classic string machine you could possibly need! I chose the ARP Solina String Ensemble, later processing it through our Moogerfooger 12 - Stage Phaser. Also the lovely M - Tron Pro showed up for the choral midsection and ending providing glorious Mellotron MKII strings and bells.

Finally, most notably in the ending and midsection, I added swirls of Disney-esque backing vocals to push the "sweetness" end of the spectrum into delerium territory. The vocoded voice you hear is Polly's lead effected by the EVOC 20 in Logic - I love the element of melancholy that a vocoded voice seems to add; it provided a nice, dark , masculine element as well.

The result? A poppy yet melancholic 'night in the life' of Polly Scattergood's "Bunny Club" . Scoop up your Analog Suicide Remix of 'Bunny Club' right here:

Bunny Club - Polly Scattergood (Tara Busch's Analog Suicide Mix) by TaraBusch

Also don't forget to grab Polly Scattergood's  Bunny Club EP on Mute Records which also contains the Analog Suicide Mix of 'Nitrogen Pink'.