808 State Discussion

I heard the scratching. Nice job.

*There could be subliminal messages in these posters.

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/metallica-on-influencing-edm-skrillex--playing-europe/2694933887001 I remember David Lee Roth on the radio claim Kraftwerk's track Metal on Metal was influential on heavy metal. Don't know how true that is. Maybe on him. Kraftwerk had a bigger impact in NY in the US I t...

How the Starck Club Changed Dallas http://www.starckproject.com/ http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/130227-Starck-Club.jpg A member of New Order and Paul Okenfold were interviewed about this 80s Dallas club in a new doc. Dallas will never get any respect though because i...

http://discchord.com/storage/post-images/OrbitalLiveRig.jpg http://tinyurl.com/ma9q53d http://www.orbitalofficial.com I never got into Orbital. They have a strong following. Some decent tracks Chime, Satan etc. When the electronica/IDM era came around a lot of that music went in one ear and out the...

Sorry, had to break the 666 topic mark. :-? This seems appropriate for the 808 State forum: DEEP VIBRATIONS MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AUGUST 1991 The underground sound of Sheffield is being shaped by very young musicians with very serious ideas about music. LFO are about to release their first LP, and it's a...

In conclusion I started messing with the dude on the floor above me and he was getting paranoid and I abruptly moved out. I didn't even have to put down a deposit on a new place. I would move to one side of the room you could hear the person above me dragging equipment pacing my position. And then I...

YouTube clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7oNSnRzwU Sounds good. It doesn't sound like a Christian church concert. ;) I like how they extended Time Bomb with an acid ditty at the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7oNSnRzwU Pacific State sounds like two records being played at once like a m...

Barry Truax - Aerial (1979) http://blogs.sfu.ca/projects/tlcomm/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/BaryTruax.jpg Barry Truax (born 1947) is a Canadian composer who specializes in real-time implementations of granular synthesis, often of sampled sounds, and soundscapes. He developed the first ever implement...

Magic Music From The Telharmonium Documentary http://www.paulhazel.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/telharmonium-570x426.jpg The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone) was an early electronic musical instrument, developed by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897. The electrical signal from the Telh...

Douglas Lilburn: Fragments Of A Poem Douglas Lilburn 'Glass Music' (1971) http://www.art-into-life.com/data/a-i-l/product/20120327_20688e.jpg Horizons - New Zealand Electronic Music (1977) http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DSafI5eJRPU/TgFTUNcNdlI/AAAAAAAAABM/58yYlK6c3B8/s400/front+cover.JPG Douglas Lilburn...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEWkwvaNcs http://s17.postimg.org/d006hf27z/115557589.jpg Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, recorded when he was 19 and released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the compan...

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air Riley's famous overdubbed electronic album A Rainbow in Curved Air (recorded 1968, released 1969) inspired many later developments in electronic music, including Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O...

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1056 When we first started going to Europe to play music, a lot of us really did not know what to expect. We knew that techno music was happening; we knew that raves and other things were going on; we knew that music was really popular but most of us did ...

Gil Trythall - Yakety Moog http://i.ebayimg.com/t/GIL-TRYTHALL-yakety-moog-7-WS-EX-016-usa-athena-/00/$%28KGrHqUOKj8E0vBj+H66BN,8BuBstg~~_35.JPG My grandfather use to play this 45" for radio spots during the 1970s. :) Foggy Mountain Breakdown was on the B-side. What's interesting about this re...