My sister and I decided to go on vacation, I wanted to go to Europe and she did not. So we went to Jamaica, never really wanted to go but she has a co worker who goes every year and knew a few places to go. It seems the best place is Negril, so we decide to go there ( Read more... )

This track was on our second demo, 1st CD and a remix on our second. THis track had all the limited gear we had at the time. On cool thing was we had a bunch of disks of older synths, we used three of these sounds on this track. I am not sure what the synths are, the pulsing bass, mid arp and lead all are from this. There is a ice bell from the ( Read more... )

This was written after we became a four piece, everyone influenced this one. The song has a straight forward verse/ chorus format. The bass comes from the Korg M3R which is made of layered Moog sounds, which is nice and fat. Its playing 8th note through out the track with variations for the verse and chorus. There is a simple drum line from the ( Read more... )

When artists start off they copy their idols, then emulate them, then are inspired by them. When starting off everyone was, to do industrial you need to have a sampler, like this was some magical instrument that only industrial musicians could use. I am a big Skinny Puppy fan, still am, I knew they had several of these so I was determined to ( Read more... )

This was one of the first "virtual" analogue synths. Novation looked back for inspiration and came up with a TB303 clone. Something I will never understand, companies make a product, they are popular, that maintain value, and they are discontinued. Roland is a prime example, some of their most iconic equipment, 808, 909, sh101, tb303, they quite ( Read more... )

The Alesis SR16 was the first drum machine I ever bought, this company put out reasonably priced gear that sounded decent. What you got in higher sound quality, you sacrificed in the programability of the sounds.You had a limited control of the pitch but that was about it. Most people I knew layered the sounds to make new ones. The pads were really ( Read more... )

The Korg M3R is the rack version of the Korg M1, I blame this synth on the popularity of ROMplar synths. Instead of oscillators, the sound engine is a sample, while this does have high sound quality you sacrifice most programability. Not completely sure why I bought this, maybe just to have more things that made sound. It did have a few good ( Read more... )

I have always lusted after Waldorf synths, not sure as to why but they do have a different sound. After the Backandtotheleft cd came out I wanted to upgrade a bit. While I already own a Microwave II, the XTK is a bit of a different beast. I found one online and bought it right before they quite making them. The XTk has a lot of the same sounds in ( Read more... )

Back in the day when I did not know so much about synths I asked a friend of mine to recommend one. He was going to be the live keyboard player for FLA so he knew his stuff. He said the TX81Z is the most "industrial" sounding synth there is. So I found a used one, well seeing that they were no longer made they all were used, and bought it on my ( Read more... )

At my work we have a policy of how many vacation hours you can keep on the books, you go out this amount and you loose the hours. I noticed that I was going to go over so I had to take a week off. I did not want to stay in Seattle so I decide to go to Mexico. For the country next door I have never been. My sister and I go and decide the East Coast ( Read more... )