Ana-loggin' With Your Hosts, RT60...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
Ah, yes, the UP K2-X, the masterpiece of British analogue percussion engineering. “Super Analogue,” even. Normally I only put photos in the RT60 set on my Flickr page of gear that actually made it on to a track, but in this instance I break with tradition. We wasted about an hour trying to get this thing to sound like, well, pretty much anything besides what it sounded like, which is an anaemic cricket. Alas, we admitted defeat and moved along.
Anyhow, we’re closing in on completion for Song Two, and are thinking about Song Three. And you know what happens when Song Three is mixed, don’t you? Chris starts begging for a label. We’re not going to put RT60 out on Positron!, but are rather aiming for a label equipped to deal with this sort of thing. Obviously, suggestions are welcome, but since you have no idea what this sounds like (I imagine the synth nrrrrds have visions of Transfer Station Blue dancing in their heads; unfortunately, that is wrong) you don’t have much to go on.
Suffice to say it is slow and synthy, and has vocals.
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The UP sure looks cool, though.
Touch n' Go? Nettwerk? Those are the only two I'd think are both small enough and big enough to 'handle things properly'.
Ghostly?
http://ghostly.com/
Touch 'n' Go has opted for the latter.
- c
The latter what?
-CR
I'm gonna dig into the UP again tonight. I guess the fact that I'm half CR's age means I haven't had all the patients beaten out of me by shitty gear. I've heard awesome beats come out of it..... now I just have to dig around and find them. I have a feeling they are hidden underneath a decade of oxidation.
Half my age. Forsooth.
-CR
Ok, your right, I'm not half your age, I'm more like 62.5% your age. Guess I rounded down, which may be construed as rude in this context.
The UP is the only analog drum synth of the western world that I've never owned. I think the Atlantex MPC was the true masterpiece of British, Euro, American, Japanese analog percussion. I wish I could have kept mine.
Touch 'n' Go has touched and gone, is what I should have said.
http://pitchfork.com/news/34650-touch-and-go-records-to-stop-releasing-new-music-shut-down-distribution/
- c
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