Drum sounds - time to roll yer own.
2009-06-20 by Hal BerstramReload – The Enlightenment/Event Horizon
Here’s a real gem from 1993. Reload was Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton, who have both appeared under many other guises. The USP of this project, which appeared on Infonet records, was the combination of mellow ambience and hard industrial beats – and many of the industrial drum sounds were sourced by sampling bits of scrap metal being hit. I like the extreme contrasts of dynamics and styles on this track, and the sample “something wonderful” (I think it’s from the film 2010, which was the inferior, but nonetheless interesting, mid-1980s followup to 2001).
Although today’s sound synthesis capabilities – even on an average PC or Mac – are light years beyond what even the most high-end synths could do in 1993, sometimes there is no substitute for going out there and hitting some stuff, sampling it and repeat until sundown or diskfull. A mate of mine (also called Ben oddly enough) gave me an old Yamaha A3000 sampler the other day. I have it stuck in the studio with a post it note on it saying, “sample more”. It’s good to be reminded.
The LP “A Collection of Short Stories” which this is excerpted from really did come with a collection of short stories, in a booklet, written by one “Dominic Fripp”. This album really should be reissued – it’s a long-lost early 1990s classic.
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- Discogs page
- for "A Collection of Short Stories" - long out of print AFAICS, sadly.
- Nice review
- on Julian Cope's Head Heritage site, of all places
- Yamaha 2G Pocketrak recorder
- Portable sampling - get out there and sample some metal clangs today...
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