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It was definitely the Oberheim DMX on Blue Monday. NO liked it because you could program the drums real time, and then punch in the accents afterwards. They were using that to fake echo on the BD and toms, only they forgot the BD... check the toms though.

Source: Keyboard Magazine feature around 1988, about the extra stuff they recorded for the dismal Quincy Jones remix.

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S_A_P wrote:Like Les Rhythms digitales?
Yeah! Love those guys, but never found a real CD here. :( Also Soulwax is impossible to find here. :cry:

Anyway, NewOrder+R.Digitales+Kraft+etcetcetc...

My idea is to record on MP3 all the playback portion of the songs, and play with my M-Audio keyboard+Notebook my own VST for the rest. ;-)

Wk

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Back in the 80's, everyone kept saying my music sounded like New Order - so I gave them this...

http://home.comcast.net/~rjjr77/Japan.mp3

The Group of 77's 'Japan' - a blatant rip off of Bizzarre Love Triangle and David Sylvian all in one. :lol:

Korg PolySix
Korg SuperPercussion (DDM-110?)
Casio RZ-1
Casio SK-1
And Jodi Krangle doing the vox.

I don't get the New Order comparison anymore. :wink: But not bad for a 4trk cassette and a handful of cheap gear back in '87. It's about as '80's as it gets'. :lol:

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Steven West wrote:Back in the 80's, everyone kept saying my music sounded like New Order - so I gave them this...
Maybe a little bit too Martha and the Muffins to fully be New Order, but still, good show.

I was expecting an Animotion-style male/female duet somewhere in there. Not sure if you can sing, but even then you still would have had to affect a British Accent.

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:lol: - this is like the first song we ever did together. But you're in luck, because I did adopt a Neil Tennant voice with Jodi in 'For One Mistake' found at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/thegroupof77music.htm - A little more 'serious' 80's music can be heard there. ;)

Martha & The Muffins! :lol:

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I'm trying to convince my wife to play the guitars... :lol: We already found a drum-player, its a girl she knows, but loves 80's music. We could plug an Alesis-DM into the kit to get more electronic style. Now I'm nagging an old-friend to be the vocalist, but he never sang on his whole life. :hihi: I know, I'm crazy...

One thing I wonder, while listening to Blue-Monday. Why the bass+drums sound so "wide" compared to doing the same on Orion with the same samples? Chorus? Stereo-Enhancer? Analog Tape effect?

Just need to rent a place to play now...

Wk

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I think I Blue Monday, the snare went through a subtle phaser? And no doubt Early Reflections on a SPX-90 et al. Plus, keep in mind the sampling technology was very 'low'. So maybe if the samples were put through a SR-202 at 8 bit, and pump the filters up - it might give you that pseudo 'BIGNESS' as well? :?

Good luck with everything. Sounds like Malcolm McLaren assembling The Sex Pistols. :lol:

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new wave :p just dress up like susan ottaviano and say "i'm not a boy, uh-huh" a lot. you'll get over it.
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.

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sailorboy wrote:wow i love new order!!!!! beach boys, new order and miss kittin the holy trilogy for me!!!
Now that would make an interesting combo indeed :)

In my mind I can hear a fusion of these three and it sounds pretty darn progressive

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Hmmmm, Harmonies - dance - and guitars, huh?

Depeche Mode. :wink:

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Ok, looks like my wife will play the bass. ;-)

Drums looks like it will be sequenced.

Vocals I'm trying to nag a friend into the band, but he lives 500km away, around 5 hours of drive. :(

Wk

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