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Trance-M
Since 1994 tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Limburg, Netherlands
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| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
I just gave you an example of techno. Many early techno records were recorded in this way, some of which have become 'classics.' |
There must have been many tracks made that way in the 90's, but I was wondering if there were such tracks that became more popular.
This one was entirely made on an Amiga, but I don't think it was very popular, although I have it on a compilation somewhere:
Obsessive - Tune In Turn Out (1993)
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You seem to be only focusing on whether or not an artist is making a living from releasing vinyl, completely ignoring all other things that the vinyl resurgence has brought about, including introducing a new generation of youngsters to music styles that were all but dead just a decade ago, when all they knew (and heard) was dubstep and electro-house. |
Indeed I was, as I was comparing it to sales in the 90's. But those numbers also included maxi-cd's. It's good if some benefit from the resurgence, also for the maker of The Wheel: The Wheel
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AlphaStarred
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Registered: Jul 2002
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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| quote: | Originally posted by Trance-M
I wasn't comparing, I just was wondering which 'messing around' tracks became very popular. Popular over here didn't mean they were popular in the US and the other way around. I'm not aware what was popular in the US at the time, late 80's, early 90's. |
It's all mostly 'messing around,' either way, as I mentioned, whether in a big studio or not. Most of these artists had no formal music theory training, etc. And even those who did, there's no 'right' or 'wrong' way to make a track, so it didn't matter much. We're not talking about classical music here.
Joey Beltram made Energy Flash when he was 19 (no idea if at an expensive studio or not), and as you know it gained recognition and popularity both in the US and in Europe. I'm pretty sure he had no formal musical training, either. There were others (in the US) like Damon Wild, Adam X, Frankie Bones, Woody Mcbride, Freddie Fresh, etc. many of whom made tracks in their own homes and limited basement 'studios,' like the one in the Massturbator recording session, and paved the way for the club/techno scene in NY and the Midwest, and eventually gained recognition and popularity in Europe.
I've spoken to Joey Jupiter, whom I bought my first 606 from, and he was part of the NY techno scene here, back in the day. He told me he'd sit down and often make a track the same night, often not using more than one or two drum machines, a synth, fx unit, cheap sampler, etc. He would deliberately set the levels on his Mackie mixer into the red, to get that dirty, distorted hard sound. They were all 'messing around,' really, with some working from bigger studios, and some from their homes. Most I'm pretty sure had no clue about music engineering or professional mastering (whatever that is). Some tracks I imagine would go straight to vinyl, while others were mastered either by the artists themselves or sent to a mastering service by the label owner.
I would imagine many Chicago and Detroit artists worked in a similar way. Woony mentioned Jeff Mills's Waveform Transmission Vol. 1, which became popular both in Europe and in the US. Whether he worked out of an expensive studio or not, I've no idea, but if he claimed to have produced several tracks on the album within the space of a day, you know he's basically 'messing around,' whatever that may mean to you.
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Woony
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Berlin
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| quote: | Originally posted by AlphaStarred
Whether he worked out of an expensive studio or not, I've no idea, but if he claimed to have produced several tracks on the album within the space of a day, you know he's basically 'messing around,' whatever that may mean to you. |
I think it was just a DX7, a 909, a 303 and a 4track recorder.
As for "messing around", I think trance guys tended to have bigger studios and more technical knowledge because there was a higher technical barrier required to make it. You could make a techno track with just a 909 and a synth. But meanwhile, as the stuff on MFS and Harthouse etc. became more opulent and anthemic you basically needed a lot of kit just to get enough synths, sequencers, FX, mixing channels etc. Very few techno/house guys had a studio like the one in the video that Trance-M posted during the early 90s. It seems like many of these trance guys had already experience working in commercial studios during the 80s.
Just another anecdote, but I saw this documentary on Bonzai records recently and there MIKE said that he basically made Universal Nation within a day just messing about. All the Bonzai stuff was made really quickly because they shared the same studio and the next maybe someone different would come in so you had to get it done before the morning. From the pictures they had a pretty decent studio although not as professionally done as the Low Spirit studio.
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Feb-05-2018 10:27 
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DJ RANN
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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| quote: | Originally posted by Light The Fuse
DaHool - Met her at the Love Parade
JX - You Belong to Me
Push - Universal Nation
Robert Miles - Children
Legend B - Lost in Love
Age of love - Age of Love
Jam & Spoon - Ride in the night
OT Quartet - Hold that Sucker Down (builds like a skyscraper)
Brainbug - Nightmare
Drax - Amphetamine
Marmion - Shoenberg
Quench - Dreams
Faithless - Insomnia
Usura - Open Your mind
FSOL - Papua New Guinea
Itchee & Scratchee - Sweetness & Light
San Transisco - Punchanella
Cafe Del Mar - Energy 52
Nalin & Kane - BeachBall
Delegate - Want you (to stay)
Yeke yeke - Mory Kante
As a kid maturing into a teen in the 90s in Melbourne this was the Trance that captured a generation. - My generation - the actual trance generation.
Enjoy those tunes. I fuckin did. These tunes got cained around my parts - even at underage parties - many times years after they were released. |
To be honest, this tracklist looks a lot like what I grew up with in London. Interesting that Melbourne tastes were virtually identical.
Personally I wouldn't class some of these as "influential" though, moreso they were just bog tracks (Brainbug, Itchee & Scratchee, Da Hool etc). They didn;t really change anything or stand out as a prototype for future releases.
A couple in there were bona find influencers such as Age of Love and Quench and I daresay Yeke Yeke.
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