Derek O'Sullivan: Demos: Bizarre - Any Day	Future Music august 1997
	Demo of the Month Eclectic Estonian five-piece Bizarre have been an item since 1993, when their tastes lay in the post-MBV dreampop scene. As avowed supporters of 'the underground', the band's cohesive identity marks them as strong contenders for future success. Describing themselves as a circle of five vague figures - a PR consultant of Tartu city government, a photo model, a DJ, a semiotics student and a producer of radio ads - who are completely sure that they can express their way of living, conversations, views and memories into music, bizarre are nothing if not self-confident. "Originally intended as an experimental dance track for a performance with Spring Heel Jack in January, "Any Day" turned out better than we thought, so we descided to keep it," explains Lauri. The track starts off with a pitchbent soft pad sound from the D-5 and a muted guitar sample taken from an old FM CD. Fuzzy white noise from an old Telecaster running through the SE-70 leads in the main beat alongside a delayed four-note motif. The real hook in Any Day comes from the vocals though, using male and female voices for identical takes an octave part - made up, in fact from eight layered parts recorded with chorus, delays and reverb before being compressed via DBX266 - the effect is reminiscent of some of The Beloved's earlier tracks: gentle vocals and laconic lyrics contrasting with busy, stripped drum'n'base-ish rythms and bottom end. Apart from the XP-50 baseline, all the parts were recorded and edited on a SoundScape hard-disk recording system, with drums provided by a fairly simple sampled loop enhanced with cymbals and snares from the D-4. The various harmonics and riffs that punctuate the track are all courtesy of the workforce D-5 through various effects modules, and a sweet accoustic guitar solo is dropped in towards the end, adding an unlikely twist to this wry commercial track.