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Re: Drum MACHINES



Now you've done it.

Radio... Radio... Radio... Radio... (What does he say?)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony K" <bigtonyk@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 September, 2007 19:06 PM
Subject: Re: Drum MACHINES


>I read an interview with a producer (wish I could remember who, Quincy
> Jones I think) who when asked if he wanted to introduce some
> 'humanization' into his drum machine track, responded that if he
> wanted it to sound human, he'd have hired a human. :)
> 
> 
> Wall of Voodoo had one song I remember and can't get out of my head!
> Mexican Radio.
> 
> "Rather be in Tijuana eating bar-be-qued iguana."
> 
> Oh no, there it is again.
> 
> Tony (off to crank some Zeppelin to get that damn song outta my head)
> 
> On 9/25/07, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 25 sep 2007, at 18.27, Dave Trenkel wrote:
>>
>> > I read an interview with Stan Ridgeway of Wall of Voodoo (remember
>> > them? Great, great band of the '80's)
>>
>> Sure! "I don't know how to live... but I sure know how to die". I
>> wanted to like them in the 80's put choruses like the quoted just
>> kept me at a distance ;-))
>>
>> > where he commented that "drum machines should sound like
>> > appliances, not drums." I like that idea.
>>
>> Yes. I think it was from magazine interviews etc that I wanted to
>> like Wall of Voodoo back then. Their musical philosophy attracted my
>> curiosity.
>>
>> He, he... I remember the first drum machines. When I read about drum
>> machines being manufactured I just couldn't wait until they would
>> appear in the stores. And when I finally got around to check out a
>> drum machine I was really put off because it "sounded just like
>> drums". I had never imagined there were people around that wanted a
>> machine to sound like a guy bashing drums. Little did I know.... ;-)
>> I had envisioned drum machines to sound more like banging metal
>> containers or pneumatic industrial processing etc.
>>
>> Greetings from Sweden
>>
>> Per Boysen
>> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
>> www.looproom.com (international)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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> Tony
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