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Rob Laing

"I would almost rather train for a marathon than tech for them one night": Idles and their producer on unleashing the unpredictable rig of effects and processors they built known as the Crawler Machine

Mark Bowen of Idles performs at Alcatraz on March 05, 2024 in Milan, Italy.

"It's a load of different effects, and there are noise generators, there's a lot of Mooger Fooger stuff on it and importantly there's an Electro-Harmonix loop station thing," explains guitarist Mark Bowen of Idles' new weapon of sonic chaos; the Crawler Machine.

It was birthed during the sessions of new album Tangk, and in an interview for the insightful Tape Notes series, Bowen, producer Kenny Beats and engineer Mikko Gordon from the Idles team explain how the beast was born. 

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