Electronic Music - Where Did It Begin For you?

Jupes · Post by **Jupes** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:41 pm

Ah, I love this!

I'm aged 27 myself and I can so appreciate some of the comments so far on this thread - especially going back to 1980's electronic music.

if I could choose one track that I heard, and that I wanted to replicate, it would be "Voodoo Ray". That started it for me.

I tried a few weeks ago to make a remix on LIVE of the track, but I decided that it was best left how it was.

Keep those stories coming.........

JUPES

Mike Goodwin · Post by **Mike Goodwin** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:06 pm

For me it all started with "don't push me cuz im close to the edge" Grand master flash. That and the fat boys. Beastie boys. Then it was through local radio. That turned into raves and then it was all over. Got a 486 in 95.

john gordon · Post by **john gordon** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:40 pm

my life with the thrill kill kult

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:13 am

Aphex Twin and Autechre made do it.

I don't try to make music like them though.

Sartori · Post by **Sartori** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:30 am

Being a rock and metal type chap most of the time, Spineshank's "Height of Callousness" is probably the single biggest thing that got me thinking electronic stuff could work well with heavy guitar-based music.

Oh, and a few weeks ago I got BT's "Emotional Technology" album and that pretty much blew me away too.

conny · Post by **conny** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:32 am

75 - Sony Tape recorder
Listened/influenced by "music concrete" and swedish concrete poetry movement since the 60's
80's - Roland W30 sampler and Tascam 4 track porta
Lisened to Gregory Whitehead etc
04 - Live! Softsynths, VST...
Turning back to the roots... eventually

// C

chewy · Post by **chewy** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:33 am

"Sandstorm"

then I got hooked on electronica.

~chewy

PS. Funny tidbit : I opened for Darude about 6 months ago at my local club.

Magic Mushroom · Post by **Magic Mushroom** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:11 am

john gordon wrote:my life with the thrill kill kult

Every one thinks I'm high and I am....

Magic Mushroom · Post by **Magic Mushroom** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:19 am

The original Razormaid stuff, the first 8 or so years. What they, Joseph and Art, did with tape was pretty cool.

Damon_Chambers · Post by **Damon_Chambers** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:11 am

i started out as a stupid kandy kid raver, progressed to dj, and my interest of live music and production has grown from the inability to fully express what i want by simply djing.

Soulman · Post by **Soulman** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:42 am

Started roadying for a rock band of mates in 1969. They were good enough to eventually get a recording session at Decka Recording studios in London around 1970/71. There I was in the control room of Decka with Cozy Powell in front of the most amazing huge mixing desk, it was like being on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, obviously left an impression. I even worked on the FOH mixing desk at one of my local gigs with Jimi Hendrix's chief roadie (my claim to fame). If you have some spare time here is the bands story (luckily there is no photos of me back then

);

http://www.thebullfrogstory.co.uk/

Fast forward to 1976, took up DJing in my local nightclub....... and have been DJing ever since!

29 years this month!

In 1988 & '89 I took over as Manager & Licensee with 25 staff at one of my local nightclubs. While working as Manager I bought a Casio HT700 and a drum machine (still got 'em). When the nightclub was sold and I was made redundant in December 1989 I used my golden handshake cheque to buy an Atari STE with Steinberg's Pro24 (the forerunner to Cubase) and a Roland D10. These were followed by a Yamaha DS55, a Kawai K1r rackmount, an Alesis Quadraverb Plus and assortment of patch bays, mixing desks, etc., etc. Believe it or not, after nearly 16 years, they are all still sitting next to me right now gathering dust.

The mixing desks are gone, the last one was an Allen & Heath 16:8:2 taking up way too much space in my dining room. The Atari with Pro24 & Cubase 2 and all my work from back then is still sitting in a cupboard in my bedroom.

I wrote my first tune on Good Friday 1990 quickly followed by a couple more. The 3rd one was good so I sent it off to 10 record companies. The Venture Label (a subsidary of Virgin Records) contacted me saying it was the best thing since sliced bread and could I send all my work to them!

So followed a 4 year association with them that never materialised into anything concrete. After 4 years I got pissed off with them and stopped sending my material. I was a bit cheesed off and stopped writing altogether until......................

................June this year when I 'discovered' Abelton!

I'm now fired up once again, and, once I've learned a bit more about the software will start writing again!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:01 pm

Wendy (then Walter) Carlos - Clockwork Orange soundtrack.
1975 - first acoustic guitar.
1977 - first electric guitar.
78-80 - played in a band with a friend who had a Mellotron, SH-101, Moog, Wurly etc. When I wasn't playing music I was in music stores trying out equipment. Also did a lot of recording of everything from tv to guitar to treated voice. This was originally to cassette, which I would bounce down using 2 machines and playing live. Eventually got a reel to reel with sound on sound and spent a good chunk of my life making weird recordings using sound on sound fx and loads of sped-up, slowed-down stuff.
1980 - first (and last) 5 string banjo.
80-84 - a little bit of school and a lot of clubbing - Peter Gabriel, Thomas Dolby, Human League, Soft Cell, Frankie GtH, Simple Minds, XTC etc.
84-85 - drove across Canada with a friend, our guitars, and, well... let's just say the car was called 'The Shark'. Spent the winter in Vancouver.
85-88 - more school, with clubbing creeping back in as well.
88-95 - Atari 1040ST - Cubase, M1, Wavestation, Ensoniq VFX, Yamaha TG77, Roland R8, new Tele, new Strat, new Ovation etc. Recording stuff solo and with friends. FSOL, Aphex Twin, Namlook etc.
95 - sold everything except the Ovation - needed to get back in touch with a 'real' instrument. Bought a Mac and entered the graphic/web design field (hey, didn't everybody?!).
2002 - walking down a stairwell when I tap the long metal handrail and hear this beautiful bell tone. I immediately decide I need a synthesizer. Pick up Reason, eventually want more, discover Live and the universe of vst/au plugs, and here I am.

DJ VAKIS · Post by **DJ VAKIS** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:04 pm

In 1989 I started with an ATARI ST 1040 FM with CUBASE and YAMAHA SY77 synth and a sampler AKAI S900.Dj since 1985 .After this i bought a PC Pii 450Mhz with CUBASE and a sampler Roland DJ70MKii.
But now I am using a PB 1.5Ghz 1024MBRam Live 5-Recycle2,1-MIDI controler Oxygen8 and monitors GENELEC 1029.
Still looking for sound card most for Djing work.

conny · Post by **conny** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:25 pm

polyslax wrote: 2002 - walking down a stairwell when I tap the long metal handrail and hear this beautiful bell tone.

You did not sample it!!! What a waste of a handrail!

// C

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:00 pm

My school got 5 sets of Atari ST and Roland D5 keyboards ... the year was around 1993, I was hooked.... I was listening to a lot of hardcore and jungle on london priate radio and also Aphex Twin and Future Sound of London.

Later I got my own PC at home and later still after saving up I bought my 1st sampler, an akai S2000.

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