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Andrew’s journey started with reading about the story of the dance plague in 1518 where hundreds of people were seized by an irresistible urge to dance in the streets until exhaustion and death. His favourite song “Etre assis ou danser” from the Berlin based band “Liaisons Dangereuses“ had an even stronger creative trigger after reading this… For his first solo album, Andrew Claristidge - member of the Parisian duo Acid Washed (Record Makers) decided to fly to Ubu Noir’s studio in Lyon where he knew he could find one EMS synthetizer to start to record a few sounds he wanted to include. The experience was highly stimulating so that back at his studio in Berlin, he had assembled almost all the ideas for his album with the basic concept: You can dance to every kind of music. At the same time Andrew started a new way of producing: less thinking, more acting. He called it Pragmatic Composing. During this composing period he was also touring and stopped in Nantes to record a track with another friend and music connoisseur: Leendder.