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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) >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > -==-=-=- > Tony > > > > >