the little silver box
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4 bartholomew and blissknob
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What was it like once he got it running for you?
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one of the oldest and still one of the best
marshall jefferson explained that they were trying to capture the sound of a nervous breakdown with this track. one time ron hardy played it at the music box and one young lady fainted and had to be taken outside to cool down. one of the clubbers came out to check she was ok and said 'looks like she's lost control'
marshall jefferson explained that they were trying to capture the sound of a nervous breakdown with this track. one time ron hardy played it at the music box and one young lady fainted and had to be taken outside to cool down. one of the clubbers came out to check she was ok and said 'looks like she's lost control'
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last one, for now
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apparently they done the bassline using a 303 - one of the first in the country
and as i recall they got the idea off this next lot ...
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yes apparently that's one of the very very very first uses of the 303 in pop - and used more or less as the manufacturers intended
you can really here its 303-ness during the coda at about 2.35
i know this is not the kind of head shredding stuff Third is looking for...
the word 'lubricious' was invented for Imagination / Leee Johns
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Yes, and it is a notorious cunt of a sequencer. A lot of people just mash the buttons and see what happens. Pretty sure 100s of classics were made like that. I knew a banker in south london who had a secret lair underneath a rug in his kitchen. one wall was every crucial acid 12 ever (all VG+) and then he had a setup along the other wall with pretty much all the top roland boxes inc. 2 303s. One with the Devilfish mod. God knows how much it was all worth, we did drugs and made 2 tracks. one of which was alright! thing was, he barely used any of it. was more of a museum than anything.
Slothrop
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Slightly weak answer, but pretty much exactly what you'd expect? You've got, what, four meaningful knobs and the waveform switch, and you tweak them and acid happens. I'm not really into the cork-sniffing accept-no-substitute synth nerd thing so I can't say that the original has some special magic that no recreation has ever truly captured but it did sound basically amazing with very minimal effort.
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there's definitely some magic in that box. the envelopes. they're so bouncy and chewy. they hit you with this physicality which can take control of you on a proper sound system. it can go from mind melting, to sexy, to cheeky rascal, all with those 4 very limited knobs.
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I think on some level I see 303 acid lines as being a comparable thing to loud fuzzy guitar riffs. Like, they rapidly reached a basically steady state from an evolutionary point of view, but they're still effective on such a basic level that we're probably going to keep doing them for as long as there's electricity.