After 8 from Genrematic by Singer and the Instruments
After 8 is a kinda cover version of a track a bunch of friends and I made on an old Atari ST nearly 30 (yikes) years ago. We put it all together in one evening, with everyone chipping in a chord here or a break there. At the time, we were really into Trance - Rising High Records, Harthouse, Tribal Gatherings and so on, so that influence was definitely present in the original.
At the end of the evening we all got a copy of it bounced down to a C90 tape and mine was certainly on heavy rotation in my Beetle's tape deck. But times change and eventually I would soon reach the point where I had no hardware that could play it anymore, so I made the effort to rip it into the computer a few years back before it was lost for good.
The tape was very warped and worn out by this point, so the quality was terrible. When I decided to try and recreate it, I was relying on my memories of it, much more than the mp3. The drums in particular were very muffled and sounded a bit 'crushed' so I decided to bring some of that through to the new version, but also adding more variations and fills.
I kept the simple pluck sound and chords pretty much the same, but extended and accentuated them more as the track builds up.
The synth strings are a reinterpretation of some sparkly stuff that I might have imagined as it was buried so deep in the muffled tape recording. And I'll admit that the acid-sounding synth was a total fluke I found whilst flipping through the presets trying to match something from a long ago musical memory.
Tracklist
| 3. | After 8 | 6:24 |
Credits
programmed, sequenced, bleeped and tweaked by Singer and the Instruments at piStudios on the banks of the River Thames, with much respect to Moog, Novation and Audiokit
License
All rights reserved.
music to listen to, mostly made without any singing and not really with any actual instruments either...