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I just scrolled down my Soundcloud list and noticed two very old songs I once uploaded just for testing the "new service". I made them in the 90s together with my friends in the "pre plugin era". We had an Atari ST for MIDI, some hardware synths and a - applause! - digital mixer (some Yamaha stuff, can't remember the name)! All this was recorded to cassette tape (and later, when it was possible, transferred to DAT etc.).

So, here's the first one. We used Korg DW-8000, Roland D-20 and possibly a Doepfer 404 for the backings. Loops and all the sample fun comes from Emu ESI-32 and a bunch of sample CDs.



The second one: I did the playback without my fellows this time (the bass is Doepfer 404 - definitely!). I gave it to my friend Tö, and he played his guitar ...



So, what are your skeletons in the closet ????

P.S.: BTW, I never found a tape saturation that came even close to that one we did in the 90s with our Nakamichi tape deck. This was the first and only time for me, that any "saturation thing" made sence to me. All that came later (in the digital domain of course) was just crap!!

90s: Got married. Had some babies. Spent some time in prison.

JoshuaPhilgarlic wrote:I just scrolled down my Soundcloud list and noticed two very old songs I once uploaded just for testing the "new service". I made them in the 90s together with my friends in the "pre plugin era". We had an Atari ST for MIDI, some hardware synths and a - applause! - digital mixer (some Yamaha stuff, can't remember the name)! All this was recorded to cassette tape (and later, when it was possible, transferred to DAT etc.).

Sounds really good and reminds me of the stuff I used to do in the early 90s back in high school days.  Fun memories.  Back then I understood my tools so much better than today.

My 90's started with my take on EBM Industrial (with strong New Wave influence) as Aeroplastic Voice

https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com ... stic-anger

I made a couple of New Age albums

https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com/album/ages-new

and then swapped to what I called Proto-Techno under the name Column 3-57 which was really an earlier evolution of what I do now (Space Music/Space Pop)

https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com ... collonades

Those links are compilations. You can see the full lists on my Discography

http://benedictroffmarsh.com/discography/

I think I kept myself amused for that decade.

Times were tough and all I could afford was an old Fostex 4-ch cassette deck and a Yamaha QY-10 MIDI Sequencer/synth (Size of a VHS tape). I traded my old Fender Precision Bass to get a BOSS SE-50 Digital effects box, and laid this down using just these items and a Radio Shack dynamic mic. 

The digital file was ripped from the only cassette copy I had of the song, which I had played in my car stereo about a million times:

Long Road To Paradise


Here's another track I was working on and never finished, using the same gear:

Yesterday's FUture


Even earlier, in the late 80's, I made this using the same Fostex deck, with an Ensoniq Mirage and an ultra-cheapo Boss rhythm box:

Careful


I'm old enough now, not to be embarrassed to share these...

_Dave_

Benedict wrote:My 90's started with my take on EBM Industrial (with strong New Wave influence) as Aeroplastic Voice

https://benedictroff-marsh.bandcamp.com ... stic-anger

Cool stuff, Benedict!  In particular I think Death in You could have come right of the Front 242 Tyranny for You album!

Tre Trelos wrote:Hey what about the 70s !! lol

Sorry for the poor quality - recorded in a 10x12 room into a boom box.  :-)
1978

[soundcloud_track]http://soundcloud.com/tretrelos/glgb[/soundcloud_track]

This is a great song!  Even though it wasn't intentional the lo-fi recording really works.  This could have been a great David Bowie song from his Diamond Dogs days I think.  I'm hearing a similar vibe (except the voice of course) to maybe Drive-In Saturday or Panic in Detroit.  Good stuff!

Here's a track I wrote in 1995 on my Ensoniq ASR-10.  I'm in the process of re-recording tracks from this era into Reason, so there will be more soon.

Just changed the title of this topic form "What did you in the 90s" to "What did you in the past millennium" .

Because... I just found some live recordings of my band in the late 80s - early 90s. I didn't hear those tracks for years, but - hey! we've been pretty Progressive Rock !

http://znarfelectronix.de/tpa/SoLong.mp3

70's? Yes, this (at the now-defunct Boston School of Electronic Music, all analog, pre-MIDI):

(Again from very old, played-out cassettes), this one is a multi tracked extravaganza, an 8-track collaboration with Billy Brown:

Mechanism/Organism


and a live improv, with about 4 other guys in BSEM's STudio A, featuring a rare Oberheim 8-voice, an Oberheim 4-voice, a couple of Minimoogs, and a couple of ARP2600's.

Neural Impacter


_Dave_

Some great stuff here, guys! Thanks for sharing!

_Dave_

Here is the front and back cover of my first album circa 1995.  I quit the music industry the following year and got really into Lego.

 

liampatrickingram wrote:Here is the front and back cover of my first album circa 1995.  I quit the music industry the following year and got really into Lego.

 

LOL

Look at that thumb wrapped over the top.  Just like all the great blues players.
A natural in the making.

Tre Trelos wrote: LOL

Look at that thumb wrapped over the top.  Just like all the great blues players.
A natural in the making.

HAHA, I've seen this photo hundreds of times and I only noticed that as I was uploading it - looks like I almost have my first G major chord down!

JoshuaPhilgarlic wrote:I just scrolled down my Soundcloud list and noticed two very old songs I once uploaded just for testing the "new service". I made them in the 90s together with my friends in the "pre plugin era". We had an Atari ST for MIDI, some hardware synths and a - applause! - digital mixer (some Yamaha stuff, can't remember the name)! All this was recorded to cassette tape (and later, when it was possible, transferred to DAT etc.).

So, here's the first one. We used Korg DW-8000, Roland D-20 and possibly a Doepfer 404 for the backings. Loops and all the sample fun comes from Emu ESI-32 and a bunch of sample CDs.



The second one: I did the playback without my fellows this time (the bass is Doepfer 404 - definitely!). I gave it to my friend Tö, and he played his guitar ...



So, what are your skeletons in the closet ????

P.S.: BTW, I never found a tape saturation that came even close to that one we did in the 90s with our Nakamichi tape deck. This was the first and only time for me, that any "saturation thing" made sence to me. All that came later (in the digital domain of course) was just crap!!

I was not expecting such first rate stuff, Joshua! The first is full of the kind of fun that seems forgotten today (the blap, blap, blap, boing, boing stuff is inspired hilarity).
The second so melodic, beautifully paced and so very un-casette sounding.
Amazing. Astounding.

Me in 1994 on Yamaha QY-10 handheld gadget and good friend John Dunne on guitar.
Never-mind me! Listen to John on blazing guitar starting a little ways in! wow.
http://youtu.be/I4L3bvfenEQ

With totally unrelated pictures of cars.

1978, Max's Kansas City
A little punkish perhaps for this forum. 
Saved from a cassette board tape that miraculously survived those turbulent years.

@marketblandings: Another QY-10 user! Yay!

 

These things may have been the "Reason" of the 90's!

_Dave_

am0eba wrote:@marketblandings: Another QY-10 user! Yay!

 

These things may have been the "Reason" of the 90's!

_Dave_

How 'bout that! Now that I think about it, my piece had a QY-10 driving an MU-5. MU-5 was a look alike sound module with more and slightly better sounds.