Behind the Music: Recharge
Autonomous by Combine the Victorious We had a lot of fun recording this song. It began very close to the end of the recording sessions. Most of the album had been figured out, recorded, arragned, even pretty close to mixed. In listening we both thought there could be another moment, something a bit more ambient, so I started messing around with ideas. Recharge was born of a cheeky inspired thought: what if I recycled a drum track from our debut album " The World Over ." We cut the drums for that album at Mushroom studio, with both Jonas Fairly and Jesse Smith covering the drumming duties. For Recharge it was Jesse's drum track from our song " For the Glory " that I used as the basis for the track. However, unlike The World Over, where we'd been making a huge bombastic, large room, lots of tracks kind of record, on Autonomous we wanted to make a dance record so that fantastic live room had to be tamed. (Kudo's to Shawn Penner for his excell...