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RE: flash back quote from a scritti interview that's good for a chuckle

Title: RE: flash back quote from a scritti interview that's good for a chuckle

>>There comes a time in every Scritti Politti interview when Green must be
challenged about his vocals. It's a kind of tradition. So, come clean Green,
is it varispeed or what?<<

blimey, that hasn't aged well, has it? I remember buying the album and junking it almost immediately- I was never a fan of that early 80s technology because you could always tell it was only half the way there (limited bandwidth, bit depth and storage) and no-one could afford it apart from these studio-bound tossers.

the s900 and the prophet 2000 changed all that, and at last it was possible for people with actual imaginations to start sampling slightly more interesting things than dogs barking or tv tubes being smashed. I think peter gabriel did this latter simply because it would look good in the press releases. the fairlight wasn't rubbish but most of it's early users did it an enormous dis-service by treating it as a novelty. to this day, I can't bear the art-of-noise stuff, but I s'pose if they hadn't done it, someone else would've.

duncan.



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