80s nostalgia

[minestrone]

The Prophet 2000 was more affordable and did a decent job (I still have mine).

Zoolook by Jarre, his only good album, and what an albulm it was, delivered by the fairlight.

[Cliphead]

Zoolook by Jarre, his only good album, and what an albulm it was, delivered by the fairlight.

Samplers in the 80's...

£20k to make dog barking noises

[minestrone]

Samplers in the 80's...

£20k to make dog barking noises

I actually found myself wagging my finger at my monitor there

If Hutter never got pranged on his bike and Kraftwerk got Electric Cafe out on time they would have changed music during that decade.

[Cliphead]

I actually found myself wagging my finger at my monitor there

If Hutter never got pranged on his bike and Kraftwerk got Electric Cafe out on time they would have changed music during that decade.

No money for the latest and greatest meant getting creative. I bought a second hand Gravis Ultrasound that had sampled sounds that blew away the Soundblaster crap and had it just enough memory and a great wee app that meant you could create your own samples. I did a killer harpsichord / string sample that I used on many recordings.

Now I get to work with cutting edge sampling tech with ClientCo.

[minestrone]

You can't blow away all 80's sample songs. Ok the classic fairlight song was axel f, granted but zoolook and electric cafe were both works of great significance. Dare by the league is still the greatest electronic album of the 80s though.

[Cliphead]

You can't blow away all 80's sample songs. Ok the classic fairlight song was axel f, granted but zoolook and electric cafe were both works of great significance. Dare by the league is still the greatest electronic album of the 80s though.

Not knocking the 80's sampled sounds at all, 'some' music was driven by the latest tech but inspiration and creativity far outweigh novel sounds. In my opinion nothing yet comes close to a great guitar solo.

[minestrone]

Not knocking the 80's sampled sounds at all, 'some' music was driven by the latest tech but inspiration and creativity far outweigh novel sounds. In my opinion nothing yet comes close to a great guitar solo.

There was a quite humerous clip of kraftwerk on tomorrow's world in the late 60s I thnk, the presenter was saying "and in the future they expect to be playing these instruments in their clothing"

kraftwerk were the biggest influence on popular music since the beach boys who kraftwerk described as their biggest influence.

[Cliphead]

There was a quite humerous clip of kraftwerk on tomorrow's world in the late 60s I thnk, the presenter was saying "and in the future they expect to be playing these instruments in their clothing"

kraftwerk were the biggest influence on popular music since the beach boys who kraftwerk described as their biggest influence.

After hearing Kraftwerk like Trio's Da Da Da I went out and bought a Casio VL-1, that was fun wee toy.

Met up and had a tune with the Beach Boys recently, can't say they've influenced me in any way.

[minestrone]

After hearing Kraftwerk like Trio's Da Da Da I went out and bought a Casio VL-1, that was fun wee toy.

Met up and had a tune with the Beach Boys recently, can't say they've influenced me in any way.

No Wilson brothers, no beach boys.

The coda to 'Surfs up' must shurely be the most beautiful music ever created, the vocals straight after the middle 8 in 'don't worry baby', Wilson wrote 'the warmth of the sun' the night kennedy was shot and Rufus Wainwright calls it his favourite song, the Beatles wrote 'here there an everywhere' the night they heard pet sounds and McCartney has stated god only knows is his favourite song. Good enough for me.

[suityou01]

No, it was an irresponsibly affordable, unfeasibly fast motorbike designed by a psychopath and marketed to 17 year olds as a method of Darwinian selection. Those who survived were either;
- incredibly talented motorcyclists or
- provided by their genes with a remarkably durable skeleton

You see the trouble was that up to about 5 or 6 thousand rpm, it felt like a slow, quite civilised motorbike. Above that all hell broke loose and it turned into Beelzebub's rocketship. Now, if you went into a bend in, say, third gear, and then accelerated out, you would often hit the so-called 'power band' (the point where the motor's power suddenly rises toward a peak) before straightening the bike, and the back would simply break out; alternatively, if it was a warm day with lots of grip the front wheel would rise, giving no steering, and you'd hit a tree.

The chaps at Yamaha sorted the problem on later models with a so-called power-valve (YPVS), which adjusted the airflow into the cylinders to ensure a more gentle and predictable supply of power; obviously, that meant anyone with a YPVS model was a bit of a wimp.

I had a Yahama 125 DTLC, re-sprocketed to a TZR 250 spec. It was a bitch to hit the power band in 6th until I bored the ports out. I was clocked by a friend in his Granada, and I was doing 105mph . I was a total lunatic in those days.