Hello, I happened to be in my local Oxfam shop and found an old Sound On Sound from August 1994, containing interviews with Trevor Horn and FSOL, the latter with great pictures of their kit at the time. Anyway, this quote from the Trevor Horn interview inspired me, following on from the 80s-flavoured conversations of late...
<quote> "With The Buggles we didn't actually have much gear at all, just a Minipops Junior -- one of those little rhythm boxes. But when I got going as a producer, and did ABC's Lexicon Of Love album, I put together a little rig that consisted of a [Roland] TR808 -- with triggers put on the side by Dave Simmons of Simmons drums -- a Mini Moog with CV gates on it, a set of Simmons drum modules, and a very strange Roland sequencer which in essence acted just like a playlist; you'd just bang a list of notes into it -- you know, 10 As, four Bs and a B-flat! I just used to drive the whole thing from the TR808, with a cowbell triggering the synth, and a combination of the TR808 and the Simmons comprising the drums. It was a very effective little system, and I did most of the ABC album with it, as well as the Dollar records. It was almost like painting by numbers -- the drummer and I would programme the track and lay that down first, and then he'd play on top of it and we'd take it away. </quote> How techno is that setup? It's definitely inspired me to check out his output, with that much cool thinking going into the sound. It turns out that the interview is online, in case anyone wants to read it, at: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_articles/aug94/trevorhorn.html Hope this isn't too off-topic? F*ck it, just press delete. Cheers, Andrew PS. The SOS website has some great interviews, it's good if you want to get under the skin of some great producers and electronic artists.
