... and kinda cool for me, I suppose. Some people in Belgium have re-released my first 7" single from 1987, as
a limited edition, coloured vinyl 12" with extra tracks or as a digital download. You can check it out here - https://deathlyquiet.bandcamp.com/
When they got in touch last year I thought it was a wind-up, so I mostly ignored it, but they were persistent and I eventually realised they were dead-serious about it. So I sent them a pristine copy of the original plus some other tracks from the same recording session and a few other old demos I still had kicking around. They chose the tracks they wanted and made up a 12" EP from it all.
When I originally recorded it in 1986, I had only been playing live for a year or so, and I didn't really think I was anywhere near ready to release anything, but a couple of friends had money burning a hole in their pockets so I let them pay for the recording and pressing. (Generous of me, I know.) I was still in the Army at the time, serving in Townsville, and the only half-decent studio around was 350km up the coast in Cairns. I drove all the way up there for two consecutive weekends. We recorded 6 songs on the first weekend and mixed them on the second.
By the time it was released, around 8 or 9 months later, I had a whole new set-up and I thought my live sound was now better than the recording so I never really listened to it. That persisted until these Belgians started hassling me, so when I finally got around to digging it all out, I was surprised at how well produced it is. Needless to say, I'm rubbish but the sound is much better than I remembered or appreciated. The two guys in Cairns did a brilliant job of making me sound much better than I had any right to.
The EP is a bit of a mixed bag. There are three songs from those original recordings - theNEXTstep, ArmageddonREADY! and STATEyou'reIN - plus a later version of ArmageddonREADY!, a newer version of a really old song called GOD, and SAVEme, which is a much later recording of a much newer song (but probably the best I've ever written). I think STATEyou'reIN was my best song of that time and it still stands up pretty well, I think. At the time I was saving it for when I got a little better at what I was doing (because I'm an idiot).
All this has got me semi-motivated to dig out a lot more of my old stuff and maybe put it up where people can buy it. It kind of annoys me that the old single is up on YouTube half-a-dozen times but none of the later albums, stuff I am actually happy with, shows up anywhere on the interwebs. So I can fix that by putting it all out there and see what happens.
What's probably most amazing about it all, though, is that most of it has come from cassettes. Only the two original tracks have come from vinyl, everything else was taken from 30 year old cassettes. I bought a reconditioned cassette deck for $70 and digitised all this stuff with the Dolby noise reduction switched off, which allows a lot more of the high end through, then ran it through the noise removal effect in Audition, which is a phenomenally good tool. The results are quite amazing and the Belgians seem to have got someone really good to remaster it all.
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Re: Here's Something Funny...I might pick up the vinyl.
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Re: Here's Something Funny...Wow that's funny
Great story too wazza I love local history! I can imagine you in the army...shooting at dudes in your own unit when they behave badly..... Congrats! ---=u f o=--- /Radiation Mutant / Snee-Nee-Iq
Re: Here's Something Funny...great Bones to see you again and a very nice story
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Re: Here's Something Funny...Is this from your 303 days? That would be almost on a par with the re-release of Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Re: Here's Something Funny...I love it, there is an immediacy and rawness to it that I find very appealing! The artwork they did is fantastic too! Forget Novakill, do more of this kind of stuff. The 80's revival is HUGE at this moment. Check out how many plays stuff like Pertrubator or Com Truise get.
Re: Here's Something Funny...GREAT STORY!
Congrats, mate - and thanks for sharing! Haven't seen you on the forum for a while - hope you are doing well! cheers! JUNEBUG http://www.Electronisounds.com (my samples and loops website)
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If I'm honest, it's not going to happen. I just can't find the time for this kind of stuff these days, as I have to work twice as many hours to make the same money I was 4 or 5 years ago. My industry has really gone down the toilet and nobody pays well any more, which means I have to work much harder than I have for 20 years. It's quite scary and I just don't have the energy to do any of the other stuff any more. I can't even find the energy to finish the album we've been working on for nearly 6 years now. Dell G7 (Hexa-Core i7)|Cubase Pro 10||Analog Keys|Ultranova|MicroMonsta|Uno|Skulpt|Craft Synth 2.0|
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this is really sad Yamaha CS-30, Roland SH-1, Roland MKS70, Focusrite Scarlett 18i6, Yamaha FS1R, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Novation Remote 37SL, Korg Legacy, Alesis M1Active 520, Novation Launchpad Pro, Push2, Intel i7-7700HQ
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No, I had my SQD-1 by this stage and the 303s were gathering dust in a cupboard. I can't remember exactly what the set-up would have been but it would have included my DX9 and Korg Delta. I really can't remember what I used for the basslines and stuff at that time but it could have been the DW8000 I bought the same week we did the recording (from the guys who owned the studio, who worked in the music shop in Cairns). I know by the time it came out I had my CZ101 and the multi-timbral bliss that went with it but at that time the set-up was in a state of flux. I probably used the Mono/Poly for something although I can't hear it anywhere in the recordings. The newer recordings would also have included the DSS-1. Dell G7 (Hexa-Core i7)|Cubase Pro 10||Analog Keys|Ultranova|MicroMonsta|Uno|Skulpt|Craft Synth 2.0|
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Re: Here's Something Funny...Well it sounds great to me man! What's happening with your current project is the album on hold?
Re: Here's Something Funny...It's not officially on hold, I've just completely lost interest in finishing it. There seems no point. The label will release it but it will be on torrents within a week and neither us nor them will make any money from it. It feels like a waste of time and effort to me.
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