Shifted preps new album, Under A Single Banner

Tell us about how this album sounds compared to Crossed Paths? Crossed Paths was written quite soon after the Shifted project started, and I think at the time I was keen to show a cross section of what I'm capable of as a producer. However, with this album I wanted to do something that was a little more focussed, it was also written over quite a short period of time, and the techniques I used in the studio differed quite a lot. How did you come to release it through Bed Of Nails? Originally I was planning to release it on Avian, but I met Dominick [Fernow] in Berlin recently and we got on well. I played him the LP and he immediately suggested we work together on putting it out. I only really like to work with a very small amount of labels, but Bed Of Nails seemed like an immediate sonic and aesthetic fit, and as it's not an entirely "techno" label I think it fits this project well. The sleeve looks interesting. Can you tell us about it? Dominick designed the sleeve. We sat down and talked things over and I was telling him about my fondness for this kind of saturated VHS footage. I like the warmth of this kind of thing and perhaps as I grew up in the '80s there's an element of nostalgia to it as well. I also wanted splashes of colour, but nothing too sharp or focussed, a little like the music itself perhaps. What else have you got in store for the rest of 2013? Aside from this LP, I've been slowly writing new material for my Covered In Sand project. I plan to do something a little more substantial with it at the start of next year. Also just keeping on with developing Avian/Mira and working with Sigha on more material as A Model Authority.