Mental Cube - Chile Of The Bass Generation (03:58)
Available on: Earthbeat, Mental Cube

Lyrics:
None

Notes:
Funky breaks, with organs and wah guitar. Unlike most of the pre-Tales Of Ephidrina material, Chile Of The Bass Generation sounds mature and could well fit with the band's later work - in fact, not only was the track reused in a different form with Hot Knives, but it was the only one of the early tracks mentioned on the Raft website, with Gaz saying:
"At this point we'd split and had two separate studios - Yage felt depleted after the messy ending of Stakker and hadn't written much but decided he wanted to mix a track I was working on - this featured a load of rare grooves minced into bad form - it was an insecure time - everyone was skint - I remember Yage's flatmate coming back loaded from a club - we were working away - he strutted in (he was an arrogant fucker - the typical late eighties glamour seeker - he alternated between stylist, artist, curator depending on which day it was) 'no-one at the club I've just been to would dance to this - its waaaay too slow' we lost interest after that and only recorded it onto a tape so we could hear it in the kitchen while hunched over the stove. A year later we decided it was genius and pressed it from a cassette copy - and months later while doing a rare DJ outing saw only one person dance to it - a mad affro in seventies garb suddenly appeared from nowhere - sprinting into the yawning space before us shouting "I love this track" flinging his arms wildly and laughing maniacally - that dude was sent by God"

Credits:
Written by Dougans/Cockbain. Produced by The Future Sound Of London.