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The first of the six songs on my Dragonfly Dance EP from 1996. I decided to post some of my older work in an effort to consolidate my music somewhat.
After the breakup of my band, New London, I went back to college to get my teaching license. While finishing my coursework, I completed work on a batch of songs, rented an Adat for mastering, and had cassettes made at a local duplication house. Then I gave them away to friends and family. I know some of the tracks even garnered a bit of airplay on radio stations in California and in Boston. Nothing like the hype behind New London, but that wasn't important. For the most part, though, this was a vanity project, designed to get me to actually finish some songs.
The first track is called Tight Like a Fist, and it might be my favorite of the bunch. Please remember that this was done at home using a Portastudio to mix and one outboard effect rack that responded to midi program changes. My sequencer was a wacky entry level Opcode product called EZ Vision that I got to know pretty well that ran on my trusty piece of junk Mac Performa 6214. I love Macs, but this machine was always an underperformer.
Ah, the days when you had to play everything! Every note, every drum part, every non-diegetic sound had to be placed and ordered. I think back even further to a time when all I had was a Radio Shack dual cassette stereo, my Casio CZ-1000 and a Roland TR-505 drum machine. You had to be damn creative to get music out of that simple rig. I recollect tricking the drum machine into driving the keyboards to get some sequencer like effects. I still have a copy of the first song I wrote with that setup. But I digress. Tight Like a Fist is a song in three parts. It should be played loudly. I hope you like it. View it as an antique found in the MacJams vaults.
After the breakup of my band, New London, I went back to college to get my teaching license. While finishing my coursework, I completed work on a batch of songs, rented an Adat for mastering, and had cassettes made at a local duplication house. Then I gave them away to friends and family. I know some of the tracks even garnered a bit of airplay on radio stations in California and in Boston. Nothing like the hype behind New London, but that wasn't important. For the most part, though, this was a vanity project, designed to get me to actually finish some songs.
The first track is called Tight Like a Fist, and it might be my favorite of the bunch. Please remember that this was done at home using a Portastudio to mix and one outboard effect rack that responded to midi program changes. My sequencer was a wacky entry level Opcode product called EZ Vision that I got to know pretty well that ran on my trusty piece of junk Mac Performa 6214. I love Macs, but this machine was always an underperformer.
Ah, the days when you had to play everything! Every note, every drum part, every non-diegetic sound had to be placed and ordered. I think back even further to a time when all I had was a Radio Shack dual cassette stereo, my Casio CZ-1000 and a Roland TR-505 drum machine. You had to be damn creative to get music out of that simple rig. I recollect tricking the drum machine into driving the keyboards to get some sequencer like effects. I still have a copy of the first song I wrote with that setup. But I digress. Tight Like a Fist is a song in three parts. It should be played loudly. I hope you like it. View it as an antique found in the MacJams vaults.
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perceptualvortex
Nice and clean... especially considering you're using traditional equipment ('traditional' meaning 'last millenium'). Funny, early in the 90's I came *this* close to spending all I had plus a lot more to set up a commercial recording studio (the Adat made me think of it, since I almost bought one). Considering how recording has changed in the last decade, I'm so glad I didn't! Anyway, great results from using last century's technology. This sounds like some high energy excitement.