Forest edge by Leopards of white

Remarkably, it's now more than 40 years since we started making electronic music together as teenagers. To mark this anniversary, we attempted to produce a set of pieces using similar equipment and compositional approaches to those that we used when we started out. This album is the result.

All of the tracks were produced with a limited set of instruments, which are mostly contemporary copies of the synths we used back in the 1980's. Although the originals were sold long ago, these instruments are now somehow viewed as 'classics' and have consequently been reproduced either in hardware or software form by modern manufacturers. Remarkably, we were therefore able to reconstruct our original studio set-up, which was based around the Korg Polysix, Sequential Circuits Pro One, Moog Prodigy, Roland SH101 and Roland Tr606 (x 2).

Following our 1980's workflow, all of these pieces were improvised live, then overdubbed with a second layer of live performance. We also attempted to revisit that particular flavour of 'Berlin School' synth music that prevailed for a few years at the start of the 1980s, influenced by artists such as Tangerine Dream, Mark Shreeve, Ashra, Harald Grosskopf, Wolfgang Duren etc. In other words, a style featuring plenty of analogue synth sequences, together with drum machines and synth melodies.

The album and track titles reflect the location where we recorded these sessions - in a rented barn on the edge of the New Forest National Park.

Our idea was to create an album that might be considered as a follow-up to 'Daquise', which we released in 1985. So this is unashamedly an exercise in nostalgia for us. We hope you enjoy our attempt at time travel.

Downtempo ambient music made from analogue synths, sequencers and drum machines