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dada » Sun Sep 11, 2016 1:22 pm wrote: Easy enough to find and download console emulators to use them with. atari (stella) and c64 (computerbrains ccs64) are free. (look 'em up, nothing to it)

IanEye » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:07 pm wrote:

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smiths wrote:ian eye's got me onto this shit, and i am particularly enjoying this one

eye want to take you higher...



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IanEye » Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:19 pm wrote:

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:
1) Charles
2) Maxine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miserere_(Allegri)

Three authorized copies of the work were distributed prior to 1770: to the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I; to the King of Portugal; and to Padre (Giovanni Battista) Martini. However, none of them succeeded in capturing the beauty of the Miserere as performed annually in the Sistine Chapel.

According to the popular story (backed up by family letters), the fourteen-year-old Mozart was visiting Rome when he first heard the piece during the Wednesday service. Later that day, he wrote it down entirely from memory, returning to the Chapel that Friday to make minor corrections. Less than three months after hearing the song and transcribing it, Mozart had gained fame for the work and was summoned to Rome by Pope Clement XIV, only instead of excommunicating the boy, the Pope showered praise on him for his feat of musical genius and awarded him the Chivalric Order of the Golden Spur.

The music you grow up with settles deep in your mind - even people who no longer follow new music still have a strong emotional connection to the music that was played around them when growing up. One of the sounds I particularly loved, when I was young and now - was that kind of almost tribal tom tom playing that you find on Faith by the Cure, Joy Divisions work and a number of other records from that time. Over the years I've played around with various drum samples but have been unable to find “that sound”.

Driving back home from the school run this week listening to Closer by Joy Division I was musing on Peter Hooks comments that he and Sumner were somewhat dismayed by Martin Hannetts production when they first heard it. And it suddenly occurred to me “They Gated drums in the 80s!!!” and of course that’s exactly how you get that sound.

This track then is a mix of playing with that sound (and just that sound) for the rhythm. The lead overtly draws on another deep favourite Jon Hassell (I figured out how to get his sound earlier in the year - you need to either pitch shift or tune oscillators to 3rds and 5ths - in this case the Sound Toys little alter boy is pitch shifting down a 5th and one of the oscillators on the DPO is up a 3rd).

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