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By Q-Rosh on May 15, 2022 9:34 am

This week I could not find any time to complete new material, so I had to get back to my old DAT tape archive with recordings from 1992. There was this song, I rediscovered in two different versions. One version was with Juno60 manually played along the dry beat and the other was without that organsound, but with lot of reverb and additional synthparts. YES, I tried to mix them together, because I could NOT decide which one was the better version. But it did not work, because of phasing problems. The only solution was the panning of both tracks on 34 L/R, so the stereoimage was still present, but the different versions could be presented for the listener, if the focus on the left or right speaker would be the only possible appropriate approach.
The instruments I used was the sequential circuits drumtraks, with 8 bit eproms, I burned with an Oberheim Prommer, a sequential circuits sixtrack, Juno 60 and the Prommer as a sampler for the flutesample I had to record with a microphone.
The music I liked in the early 90ies was electronic music, SOURCE and WARP RECORDS. In my complete naive thinking, I was programming crazy stuff in my bedroom with the equipment I had those days and tried to emulate Autechre or Squarepusher, but I did not know what I was exactly doing. Here is a psydo drum and bass rhythm emerging from time to time and some nice synthsounds of the sixtrack I miss. I think it is a classic, though.

Sounds retro and contemporary at the same time.  The big beat is cool and even back in the early 90's you were finding lot of cool textures to layer on.

The sound design of the beat is really awesome. The kick is huge, the snare and hits just sound really good and separated. There is something about this mix that really sounds both very real and 3 dimensional. There are also these stab like brass like synth wails that ping pong and they sound really fantastic against the beat. I loved this one, here it goes to my favorites.

CosmicCairns wrote:

Sounds retro and contemporary at the same time.

I would not have guessed 1992 if you didn't tell me. The drum programming is way beyond 1992, I feel -- way ahead of the times, my friend! (Speedy J's De-Orbit off of Warp's AI still blows my mind to this day). Well done you from 1992! heart

ilzxc wrote:
CosmicCairns wrote:

Sounds retro and contemporary at the same time.

I would not have guessed 1992 if you didn't tell me. The drum programming is way beyond 1992, I feel -- way ahead of the times, my friend! (Speedy J's De-Orbit off of Warp's AI still blows my mind to this day). Well done you from 1992! <3


I have to correct the date. It was 1996, I just found some pictures of me and the equipment of this period. So I was not so much ahead.  But thank you for your kind words.  It was a computerless and mainly analog time.

Q-Rosh wrote:


I have to correct the date. It was 1996, I just found some pictures of me and the equipment of this period. So I was not so much ahead.  But thank you for your kind words.  It was a computerless and mainly analog time.

I think everything I said still applies: The Chemical Brothers only had one album at that time, but at least SAW Vol 2 happened before this! Still ahead of the curve and by a long shot. (Also an opportunity to say "well done" to you from 2022 for mixing this well!)

YES!

Love this type of sound. A lot of cool textures and chords laid out in a very chill execution

Love taking trips in your DAT time machine smile Badass beats and super warm synth vibes.

Thanks for sharing this, that’s great you were making stuff like this in 1992, and such a great sounding recording for bedroom producing at the time.   This would have been alchemy for 17 year old brain,  Miraclemiles and I had just begun recording at this time, tape bouncing live drums with some boom boxes. 

Yes. This is great!

Definitely feeling that 90s warped vibe.  It has a nice laid back dub feel to it that makes ya nod along to the bass and beat.  Love the delays on that one synth.  It contrasts so nicely with the deeper organ pad.  Well done!

wow that panning is really cool!

There's something about those oldschool drum machines.  They have so much punch and weight to the sounds.  I've actually got an old Sequential Tom drum machine which I modded so it has all the cards built in.  Sounds great.  Editing is not ideal but sounds great!  haha.

I was similar to you way back in the day trying to emulate Afx and Squarepusher with limited gear and knowledge.  Sounds cool though man!

yes.   Oberheim Prommer!!! Now that's a bit of kit. Wow.  Great sounds in here

deep bassy vibez over a snappy dubby beat with that eerie sense of mystery throughout, par excellence big_smile

really awesome! the panning works so well! It stands on its own, but I love reading about the process.

V interesting back in the day you'd make stuff like this but it was hard to show it to anyone, there must be so many goldmines lying around in people's garages. Nowadays it's so easy to upload there's probably tons of goldmines sitting publicly online, hiding in plain sight smile

even tho it's electronic it still has a very human touch to it, that I rarely get from hearing this type of drums. kudos! this is a song I am learning a lot from.

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