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yeah, that would have been in about 1982 on one of those teac 4 trax with that silver roland drum machine and maybe a dx7, or recording at inner ear on a 1" 16 track, so it's all a little hazy.

nebulae wrote:

Shoma wrote:I worked on it for 4 hours...it was the best thing I ever done in my life

well that's just fucking sad

No...I'll top that...what's fucking sad is that I've been messing around for 6 months now and have a few pieces that I've never finished and can't seem to finish for some reason...so technically, I haven't even written my first track...not thats fucking sad!!

Goal: get one done by the end of the week. I'm gonna hound your sorry ass until it's finished.

My first tune:

the quality sucked but it had a lot more soul and substance than my most recent ones... much as it shames me to admit

I think the first tune I wrote completely on my own was a weird soundscape in octamed about 1991 while I stayed up all night after eating loads of khat. Loads of backwards samples and weird beats.

what's khat?

and is it as nasty as it sounds?

The first track I ever wrote back in 97 was a big steaming pile of shit But my 2nd track was awesome

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYqjPorKZI

Khat, it's like clarky cat, but a little bit milder.

nebulae wrote:what's khat?
and is it as nasty as it sounds?

I wondered the same and Wiki'd it:

Khat (Catha edulis, family Celastraceae, Ge'ez ጫት č̣āt; Arabic: قات; IPA: [kat]), and also known as qat, gat, chat, and miraa), is a flowering plant native to tropical East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it is a shrub or small tree growing to 5–8 m tall, with evergreen leaves 5–10 cm long and 1–4 cm broad. The flowers are produced on short axillary cymes 4–8 cm long, each flower small, with five white petals. The fruit is an oblong three-valved capsule containing 1–3 seeds.

Khat contains the alkaloid cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant which causes excitement and euphoria. In 1980 the World Health Organization classified khat as a drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence, and the plant has been targeted by anti-drug organizations like the DEA.[1]

@neb khat is like a semi legal speed that you chew. Think they made it illegal now.

hmm, one more thing to try...

nebulae wrote:Goal: get one done by the end of the week. I'm gonna hound your sorry ass until it's finished.

Talking about me or jb61264?

RhythmSickness wrote:I think the first tune I wrote completely on my own was a weird soundscape in octamed about 1991 while I stayed up all night after eating loads of khat. Loads of backwards samples and weird beats.

I worked with a guy that was from overseas and he explained the whole khat thing to me. I wish I could find it here. From what he explained ti's kinda speedlike but it makes you think deeply. Energy + motivation + deep thinking = WIN! I want some.

Verbal wrote: I worked with a guy that was from overseas and he explained the whole khat thing to me. I wish I could find it here. From what he explained ti's kinda speedlike but it makes you think deeply. Energy + motivation + deep thinking = WIN! I want some.

They were selling it in the corn exchange in manchester back in the day, not sure what tonies cronies did to the availability of it tho. Also to watch out for - quite bad for your heart.

It must have been thirty years ago.... I had some nasty cheapo drum machine that I forget the name of running for the beats (clicks) was playing a Roland SH09 with one hand and was hitting the strings of my mothers upright piano with a drumstick held in the other hand. I remember that I eventually called the track Euroshima. I filled up both sides of a C60 cassette with the pretentious nonsense. The tape was lost years ago but this lost classic was probably my best work.

The whole episode really sticks in my mind because I downed several liters of cider before during and after the "performance". I then threw up and suffered my first hangover ever.

I wrote a rave track called "Destinxion" on an Amiga 500 through Protracter.

I was 15 years old, and It took me a day to finish it. I had problems saving anything on that machine so I recorded it by sticking an old cassette player to the speaker.

It used about 6 or 7 loops in total and I thought I was a genius at that time.

Its now still in a box of cassettes in my attic. Maybe i'll find it again one day.