Tycho Brahe: Doctor In The House.

Tycho Brahe launch Tasty at the Jubilee Hotel on Friday.

    Local eighties flavoured synth pop act Tycho Brahe take some time to launch their second long player this weekend. Entitled Tasty, the disc is a collection of remixes, re-edits and covers through the bands history.

    “It’s not really an album proper,” explains front man Ken Evans. “It’s extra mixes from Cassiopeia. Delos is a new track, and there are some covers. Real Life remixed the last track for us.”

    “Some of the new mixes were done from scratch, and some of them were left overs from the last album sessions. Re-edits and alternate versions. We had a number of recordings for the first album, and we had to figure out which versions to use and which to leave out.”

    Don’t let this fool you into thinking the Tasty mixes are in some way inferior to what made it on to Cassiopeia. In many cases, Tasty may well be superior, although in the context of the previous work some of the alternate tracks would have made Cassiopeia a less cohesive record.

    “I think some of the mixes are better than the album versions, but they didn’t work on the album,” Ken explains. “For Cassiopia we wanted a good representative sound of what we sound like, and this is getting away from that a bit, a bit more all over the shop, and a bit more fun. The first album was a bit more serious, but this is a bit more flippant.”

    A particularly bold move seems to be the inclusion of two very well known covers. With tracks like Send Me An Angel and Tainted Love (which features a nice Dr Who reference), audiences could almost be too familiar with the tracks to accept a cover version.

    “A lot of people come to our shows and hear us do these songs live at shows and they’ve been saying put it on CD. The Dr Who thing was initially full of samples from the show and I had about a four-month battle with the BBC over the net and they wouldn’t budge on letting me use the samples. They’re so tight with all of this they’ll pick you up for a script, so even if you redo it yourself… if you use anything that’s recognisable as Dr Who then you’re in trouble.”