don't let those fucking hippies trick you with their crypto-conservative nostalgia for the "good old days" and "simpler times" of the 60s. their concept of history is highly selective. please seek the opinion of outside observers.
our culture has not declined since 1970; it was shit to begin with.
what's amazing is how little has changed.
Saturday, April 19, 2014
midinotes
Mellotron magical intro! I believe its a combination of 3 violins and Brass (Mk2) from the tape based Mellotron.
Señor Patroclo
That's great! I needed to know that. Now to get a Mellotron.
midinotes
I did a pretty close cover of this song. For the intro I used the Nord Electro 4D on two tracks, one with the Strings (3 violins) and another with the Brass mellotron patch. I ran them through the Electro's leslie and a bit of reverb/eq/compression. Sounded pretty awesome! However nothing beats the original mellotron, though I don't think it would be quite as easy to maintain and change sounds as a modern keyboard! Rick Wakeman uses the Memotron (a new digital version of the mellotron keyboard). I heard him playing it at the weekend for his Journey to the centre of the earth tour in Cardiff, really nice too!
Señor Patroclo
Unfortunately, all I have right now is a Roland Juno G-i. So yeah, I don't know how much I can do with it, but that Memotron sounds AMAZING.
deathtokoalas
mellotrons are kind of ..... hard to find. your best bet is a vst emulator....
Mellotron magical intro! I believe its a combination of 3 violins and Brass (Mk2) from the tape based Mellotron.
Señor Patroclo
That's great! I needed to know that. Now to get a Mellotron.
midinotes
I did a pretty close cover of this song. For the intro I used the Nord Electro 4D on two tracks, one with the Strings (3 violins) and another with the Brass mellotron patch. I ran them through the Electro's leslie and a bit of reverb/eq/compression. Sounded pretty awesome! However nothing beats the original mellotron, though I don't think it would be quite as easy to maintain and change sounds as a modern keyboard! Rick Wakeman uses the Memotron (a new digital version of the mellotron keyboard). I heard him playing it at the weekend for his Journey to the centre of the earth tour in Cardiff, really nice too!
Señor Patroclo
Unfortunately, all I have right now is a Roland Juno G-i. So yeah, I don't know how much I can do with it, but that Memotron sounds AMAZING.
deathtokoalas
mellotrons are kind of ..... hard to find. your best bet is a vst emulator....
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
this i something else i was listening to huge amounts of in 99/00 and had a huge influence on me, insofar as the idea of merging guitars with electronic music is concerned. it's a shame that the live dynamics are a bit weak...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, ignorance is bliss, curious george, gravity's rainbow, a commercial break, all symphonies, all tetris material)
this i something else i was listening to huge amounts of in 99/00 and had a huge influence on me, insofar as the idea of merging guitars with electronic music is concerned. it's a shame that the live dynamics are a bit weak...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, ignorance is bliss, curious george, gravity's rainbow, a commercial break, all symphonies, all tetris material)
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
this was in the changer most of the fall of '99 and had a big influence on what i was doing for the next little while. it's partly the synth tones, and partly the atmosphere...
outstanding record, btw. i can't count how many nights it was coming through the speakers around 3:00 am. perfectly atmospheric. i just wish i hadn't lost my certificate of provenance...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, gravity's rainbow, ignorance is bliss, curious george, rabit is wolf, all symphonies after 1)
this was in the changer most of the fall of '99 and had a big influence on what i was doing for the next little while. it's partly the synth tones, and partly the atmosphere...
outstanding record, btw. i can't count how many nights it was coming through the speakers around 3:00 am. perfectly atmospheric. i just wish i hadn't lost my certificate of provenance...
(relevant track: book it!, entropy, gravity's rainbow, ignorance is bliss, curious george, rabit is wolf, all symphonies after 1)
obligatory "influential on song of the day" post...
i actually wrote the guitar riff to book it! by jamming over this while it was going on loop, creating a sort of tangerine dream effect. it's something i do quite often for fun over all kinds of electronic music. sometimes, it releases emotion...sometimes it creates songs....
(relevant track: book it!)
i actually wrote the guitar riff to book it! by jamming over this while it was going on loop, creating a sort of tangerine dream effect. it's something i do quite often for fun over all kinds of electronic music. sometimes, it releases emotion...sometimes it creates songs....
(relevant track: book it!)
might i dare?
i don't claim much influence from the beatles, despite the absurd amount of time i've spent listening to them. it was just always so clearly before my time. i mean, i listen to the beatles the same way i listen to debussy. it's music from a past era....
here, though, the ending chord is sort of an obvious nod.
(relevant track: book it)
i don't claim much influence from the beatles, despite the absurd amount of time i've spent listening to them. it was just always so clearly before my time. i mean, i listen to the beatles the same way i listen to debussy. it's music from a past era....
here, though, the ending chord is sort of an obvious nod.
(relevant track: book it)
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