Electronic Music - Where Did It Begin For you?

no_barcode · Post by **no_barcode** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:58 am

Angstrom wrote:I saved up and six months later I bought one of these.

I still have mine. It's in my closet.

mikemc · Post by **mikemc** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:18 am

(re prev post) oh that is too cool, a really nice little item.

re: this--

markaugust wrote:..to make a long boring story short..: the production of " all night long" from lionel richie still blows me away since then.
engineeringwise a fukkin masterpiece!!
anyone thinks this also?

Yes, absolutely. Also, when I hear Steely Dan come over the grocery store speakers, I stop shopping to listen.

I wish my story were concise, I'll try. I played in bands, sang/played electric guitar, played with effects (tape loop echo, a major milestone), played with synths (ADSR, waveforms, what sublime concepts), played with tape recorders (Now, why can't I get this Portastudio to sound professional???), played with samplers (the pitiful RZ-1, a highpoint and lowpoint all at once). I knew I was going down the digital path when I could not be ashamed of being in band that used a drum machine instead of a drummer-- preferred it, really, perfect time.

Years ensued before being able to play with computers, so now I'm disillusioned, lonely, and bitter. I writhe in my sleep, tortured with self doubt and venomous half-dreams. It is not clear to me what I've done to deserve Live, which I literally stumbled across when buying an M-Audio MobilePre.

mike holiday · Post by **mike holiday** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:45 am

Detroit in 1991

dm · Post by dm » Wed Dec 07, 2005 12:02 pm

loving electronic music, so wanted to make it.
1996 got a yamaha cs1x synth, an atari, a pair of midi leads and a very ancient copy of cubase on a floppy disk...

kennerb · Post by **kennerb** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:18 pm

The Dr Who theme really stuck me.

Then the 80's rolled around and I started paying attention to similar sounds in a lot of the Urban and funk music that I like.

I used to Breakdance to Tour De France. Then Jam on it came out by Newcleus. That was the BOMB. (Still is in my opinion)

I spent years with no equipment except reel to reel 2 tracks, plastic spoons, and scotch tape.
I'd record drum beats off of the radio or records and then loop it. Then I'd put a plastic spoon over the erase head and record beatboxing or other sounds over it. I'd put that to cassette and play music over that.

In the early 90s I took an electronic music class at school and was hooked. A few years ago I realized my calling and went into debt big time to get the gear I have now. No regrets.

except for a failed marriage. Damn computers.

koranek · Post by **koranek** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:37 pm

First electronic keyboard - kind of - Fender Rhodes (with silver metalflake top)
Followed by first synth - Juno 106
First electronic composing - Commodore 64, Sequential Circuits interface, Dr. T's software, Tascam 4-track
First Mac - 512 K "Fat Mac" - the first Mac, the 128K, couldn't really do much
First Hard Drive - 20Meg
Current storage - 540Gig and thinking about one more drive
First Mac software - Motu Performer, then back and forth between Motu and Opcode stuff
Current software - various vsti, Live, Reason, Reaktor, Motu DP sometimes
Still love my Yamaha EX5 as controller, and also Handsonic HPD 15
Just gets better and better

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:53 pm

James Brown Is Dead.

grooveconnect · Post by **grooveconnect** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:45 pm

when i was a child i was attracted by everything that produced some percussive sounds and by everything that had a beat

-it begin in the 80's i love to isolate the beats from the voice of the track in my mind. Record the bare beats at the beginning of commercial tracks
or beat boxing with mouth

-then i begin to use protracker

(the GUI was a sort of the matrix!) on the Amiga 500 a masterpiece

-90's i bought a P2 and started using Fast Tracker 2 (similar to Pro Tracker, but with stereo and the possibility to use more than 4 channel and it worked on dos)
The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Orbital, Underworld were the input

-i began DJ'ing

-in mid 90's i bought a P3 500Mhz and started using tracks and samples composed in Fast Tracker 2 to create sequences with Cubasis and his plug-ins, it was a sort of hobby, sometimes i played with videogames, some times i played with audio software

-around 2000 i bought a Sound Blaster Audigy (very shitty piece of audio soundcard) but it has ASIO support and MIDI I/O so i started using Cubasis
with VST instruments

-i bought a Roland PC180 master keyboard and Reason 1.0

-2000-2001-2002

i spend a big part of my spare time on Weed, Reason and Sequencing and getting into synth technology

-2002 i bought a Waveterminal 192 M and upgraded the computer to Athlon 2000+, and i began to spend a lot of money around it

-2005

now i'm veerrryyy happy armed with a Sony Vaio P42,8 Laptop, Novation Remote 25, Novation X-Station 49,Korg Electribe R1 (very glitchy) Ableton Live and Reason 3, gigging and experimenting in Rome!
producing Breakbeat, Drum'n Bass, Glitchy Elektro, Minimal House

drush · Post by **drush** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:58 pm

mike holiday wrote:Detroit in 1991

heh. my answer: Detroit, 1988
The Wizard/WJLB
Deep Space Radio/WDET
The Music Institute
The Shelter
The Majestic Theatre
later - Banko, Packard, 1515

then in '89 i was at a friends place in ann arbor. his roommate was a producer of film scores; the entire dining room was filled with synths....

RobStrobe · Post by **RobStrobe** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:01 pm

jupes...wow...this is one of the most amazingst threads i ever found here on this forum...
=)
all electronic started for me with depechs guy with the cowboy hat....(on mtv)...today i realize it was "personal jesus"...but long before that i was hanging around in really fat classical studios @ the "südwestfunk" (kaiserslautern/germany).it is and was one of the biggest radiostations in germany!!!

my dad played the cello as soloplayer in orchestra and me was hanging around with those "soundengineers"(tonmeister)which had been studying music for a hundred semester and read the partiture like the orchestar captain....so....i was a little boy....like 5 years old...and just everything in there was great...
=)
i loved being there...
=)
then came something like front242,das boot,klf,emf,no fx,ramones,selpultura and so on....in my today opinion is all this stuff "electronic music"...right?
=)
in 1994 my mother brought from a flight a newspaper(i think it was the magazine of the "frankfurter allgemeine") with a big picture from Sven Väth...it was the time of "OMEN","DORIAN GRAY","EYE-Q" and "HARTHOUSE"...i read and read and read this article again and again...i was already into electronic 4 on 4 dancemusic...after being through dr alban,reel2reel and so on...and i had my first "HR-3 Clubnights" recorded from radio....when in 1996/1997 some amazing tracks came out....

like

SURPREME TRUTH
SPACE DJZ-SIDE ON
PLASTIKMAN-SICKNESS
FEOSvsMSO-INTO THE GROOVE

AND MANY MANY MORE...

from this moment,this is the moment i decided i wanna produce music, it took me FOUR YEARS to do it....and i always had a mix of "side on" and " supreme truth" in my mind....i imagined for myself how it should listen to combine the elements,the vibe and the power of those two...
=)
now...5 years later...i still love thoose tracks....but i found out......that it´s not so easy to catch there SPIRIT,VIBE AND POWER!!!!

thx again for this wonderfull thread...!!!

cheers rob

RobStrobe · Post by **RobStrobe** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:04 pm

drush wrote: the entire dining room was filled with synths....

wasn´t that a warning to you??

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:08 pm

The KLF and Bomb Tha Bass in the 80's
Then Leftfield and Omni Trio in the early 90's
Move to Vancouver from Auckland in '94 to do cheap eeee's
Tried my hand at DJing, but didn't click for me then.
Bought and MC-303 when they came out ('95-96?) then got a Roland W-30 and a Quadra 840AV a couple years later with Logic.
Then went to Audio Engineering School in '98 cause I didn't know how to use any of it.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:17 pm

Mum's guitar +

Youth club=>
Public Enemy: "It takes a nation of millions..." +
Depeche Mode +
NWA +
Impressionable youth
=>
Amiga +
Very odd remix of Pet Shop Boys (the samples were pre-loaded into the damn software)
=>
Dad's computer +
SoundBlaster +
Cubasis
=>
Pedal board for me bass +
Music school
=>
24h access to ProTools, Logic, Studer and Mackie D8B (Spring of '99)
=>
Logic +
Rm1x, and I was on a roll!

Magic Mushroom · Post by **Magic Mushroom** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:26 pm

My sister took me to the Rush 2112 concert and gave me a sugar-cube of 24 hr acid and that was all I needed.

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:40 pm

Tarekith wrote:James Brown Is Dead.

"No sex until marriage"

...brings back great clubbing memories...