You are going to need some patience with this track given that it takes until around the 2:15 mark before someone turns off the alarm clock and starts dropping the beat. My apologies also to anyone who sees the artist name Exquisite Corpse and anticipates 40 seconds of artery shredding noisecore and instead gets 11 minutes of beautifully pleasant techno music. The pleasantness clearly affected John Peel’s concentration when he programmed this into his playlist for 21/2/93 on BFBS, because having apologised at the end of the previous week’s programme for what he felt was a rather disorganised show, he put What a Life in as the programme’s closing track and found he’d mistimed it and still had a couple of minutes to go before the station’s next news bulletin. As a result, listeners were treated to a repeat sample of it to take them up to the news.
Exquisite Corpse started off as a side project for Dutch DJ Robbert Heynen and the Reassembling Reality EP, which featured What a Life as its lead track, was his last solo release under this name before he expanded the project to a duo with Debbie Jones. I like to think that receiving angry letters from misled Disemboweled Corpse fans prompted their subsequent name change to XqST.
Video courtesy of x0rr07
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