I can relate, had very dark times and loving music, doing music, always helped me like a beacon. Actually more than a beacon it gave me purpose and healed me.
@@dmks2146 nice, yeah they take up a huge amount of space, especially if an young person. The smell was a huge part. Do you know what make it was? Ours was a Kentucky twin keyboard and pedal organ.
@@ExpectResistance could have been a Farisfa Pergamon. It had those faux mother of pearl switches. I was way too young to interact with it in a musically meaningful way but that must have been when I caught the synth bug. Wouldn't have made that connection without your video.
@@dmks2146 Nice. It reminds me of an earlier experience before our organ was put into the garage, where before I could play it “properly” I sat there for ages just holding keys down making huge drones. I think I only learned how to play as to prove i could and to get it back in the living room and not be thrown away.
great to hear about your personal background! absolutely agree that this will always manifest in your sound and music 👍 i catch myself especially on youtube quite often with the certain expectation to pick up and learn things quick and easy. like there would be that one video on youtube that would teach me how to make the music that i want to hear and be happy with it or smth like that. which is ofc absolut bullsh*t and will just keep me from making music. i think through your videos i learn to embrace experiment and failure and to celebrate the whole process. and that finding your sound, making your music, connecting with your people is a long long process.
Totally. It’s an ongoing process for sure and we evolve in all sorts of ways in life so it makes sense our approach to making music will as well. UA-cam can be a great resource, but it’s a lot of information and not all of it is useful or suitable for us. It often seems to easy to simply say experiment and try stuff, but being able to actually do that well and navigate al the noise can be really tricky. I am always a little skeptical when some packages up a top 5 steps to do x. Seems like they are trying to sell me something. 😂 Glad it’s useful, cheers for watching.
Can’t believe you said about the s2800 akai I had one my first sampler my mum said was I mad taking a 2.5k loan out that no one knew how to use no UA-cam and went from there never made a penny but I’ve had many many health issues and I’m 52 now so stilll tinker but sold some much stuff due to being out of work 3 Times in intensive care had an andromeda a6 modal elelectronics 002 and 008 all gone just to survive got the rtym mk2 comming Wednesday as cash in retirement fund due to I’ll health which just covered it and your videos are a god send not many vids on it on here and I’m not sure if I’ll regret it as I’m not that patient so thanks again for everything your showing I know these take time no the project file will help not many people do that
Heey Being a postie is hardcore, it’s so exhausting physically. I remember training so many people who bailed after a few days. Hope your health is ok, it sucks when that happens. Many of my family have brushes with similar, and i have a slipped disc, although manage it. Work sucks, and it’s worse when it makes us sick. 🤍 The Akai S2800 is dope, i still have mine and it still sounds amazing and brings me so much joy using it. I think we probably were crazy spending the money we had to just to sample stuff, but that was our options back then. Good to hear you’re still creating stuff, that’s where it’s at imo, in whatever form. It keeps us happy. My mum and dad had already divorced by the time i got my Akai, but she would have definitely not been into the idea me spending that money. My dad just said “it’s your money, when it’s gone it’s gone”…classic dad talk 😂 Wishing you the best bud. 👍
Hey, 👋. They are great headphones for sure. They translate so well. The padding fell apart unfortunately but my partner made some quirky thread replacement for me. 🧶😂
Thx for the background Definitely some parallels. I mentioned that my mom had records, mostly pop and soul and what we know as classic rock today, but she had a few head scratchers like Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples, Tyrannosaurus Rex Beard of Stars and YMO self titled which has that crazy cover with the gal with the medusa hair but the snakes are wires, I used to stare at that as a kid and get lost in that music. I must've been 6 or 7. It's funny because I didn't really consciously get into "electronic music' when "electronic music" became a thing but I was always into it. Kraftwerk was another early love since it was in a lot of Hip Hop mixes early on and directly influenced electro. I went through a period of being a degenerate skate rat, punk kid in the mid 80's until I destroyed my ankle and started playing bass instead and eventually guitar. I listened to to a lot of noise and discovered Re Search magazine and bands like Throbbing Gristle and that lane of industrial music at the same time as more above ground industrial was coming out, wax traxx etc. I started a few bands a couple of them very experimental. This was all in Buffalo NY on the east coast. My friends were all very binary in their interests so when the rave scene made it's way through our region a lot of people either got caught up in that or were completely against it. The punks hated the ravers not realizing that the latter was just an extension of the former (look to Berlin for the connection) and I was mostly oblivious to all of it, doing my own thing. I was in good hands at the record store I worked at (94-95), the owner was responsible for bringing hip hop to Buffalo in the early 80's and had a line on amazing 12 inch stuff via multiple sources. He turned me on to Detroit techno when people were into whatever trendy flavor of the minute thing was happening, Chicago house also, fell in love with that stuff. I moved to LA in 96, same thing, had to get out of the small town. I played guitar with a punk band out there, some og's. Also worked at a couple of record stores there right when Warp was hitting. I still have some early 12's, used to order from them for a store I managed just so I could get stuff. I took to some of that stuff right away. My interest in all kinds of music just proliferated during that period because nobody cared about vinyl and thrift stores were like a dream in Hollywood. Despite all of this I rarely DJ'd and when I did it was at punk shows. All through this period I did do some recording. My experimental bands never rehearsed, only performed live, sometimes members were chosen day of. I recorded some of that stuff with a boom box. I started messing with cassettes early on also, first recording stuff off the radio and eventually getting a 4 track and recording experimental and punk stuff to sell at shows or give to friends. Never did a run of more than a dozen or so. I didn't start home recording until maybe 10 years ago and I never worked in the box since I came from that analog DIY world. I currently work with various instruments and a modular synth and samples, field recordings etc. and I never get bored of the endless possibilities. I think that since we started out just throwing stuff on tapes early on without the intent to release it, we aren't precious about the process, we just do it. I also went through periods where I was working so much that it stifled all creativity. Not for lack of ideas, spend all day thinking of things only to be too exhausted to execute when you finally get the time. That's the worst space to be in for a creative.
Really amazing to hear all this. Truly. My first Kraftwerk record, the Radioactivity LP, as you say referenced loads by electro/hiphop heads alike, friends thought were weird because they sung about Ohms or transmitter’s haha! I loved it and knew that in many ways i had already felt the early signs of needing to get out from under the small town mentality. Many friends are still in that town actually, and although i have grown thankfully away from that town, i do feel those that stayed have been swallowed even more. I’m very glad i left. Music has a funny way of showing personality sometimes. Especially the punk stuff or the punk attitude. The get on and do it attitude, which i struggled with for so much at points, i think largely due to so many people wanting to stop me and say no, you can’t do that. Breaking free and finding a way to be more activated, that constant need to be doing something and being a better person in whatever way that finds itself, music has been key in doing so. If some Germans can make robotic music while wearing suits, if a whole group of people can rally behind a form of dance music, if various nerds and weirdos can share their creations out of their bedroom studios and touch others, then really so much is possible. 💛
thank you for sharing your story- very interesting to hear your talk - totally aligned with your thoughts - keep on the good work, the music of the label is amazing - I hope to have time send you some demos one day.
Well. I listened to your label’s stuff and was like, oh shit, young people are so creative and extreme these days. You are my age. I do not know if it is worse or not. Is it my fault I sound 10 to 20 years too late ?
I love your creative work. And appreciate the open source mind set!
Thanks, appreciate the time taken to message. Open source is really the best way almost always.
Cheers
I can relate, had very dark times and loving music, doing music, always helped me like a beacon.
Actually more than a beacon it gave me purpose and healed me.
Awesome!! Yeah music is a huge one i totally agree. Arguably one of the powerful creations we have. Hope the hard times are behind you now. 💛
@@ExpectResistance they are, thank you.🙂
Awesome
I was so fascinated by our electrical organ monster as a kid. I haven't thought about it for ages but I can almost remember it's smell now.
@@dmks2146 nice, yeah they take up a huge amount of space, especially if an young person. The smell was a huge part. Do you know what make it was? Ours was a Kentucky twin keyboard and pedal organ.
@@ExpectResistance could have been a Farisfa Pergamon. It had those faux mother of pearl switches. I was way too young to interact with it in a musically meaningful way but that must have been when I caught the synth bug. Wouldn't have made that connection without your video.
@@dmks2146 Nice. It reminds me of an earlier experience before our organ was put into the garage, where before I could play it “properly” I sat there for ages just holding keys down making huge drones. I think I only learned how to play as to prove i could and to get it back in the living room and not be thrown away.
@@ExpectResistance we all start with drones :)
Very true
great to hear about your personal background! absolutely agree that this will always manifest in your sound and music 👍
i catch myself especially on youtube quite often with the certain expectation to pick up and learn things quick and easy. like there would be that one video on youtube that would teach me how to make the music that i want to hear and be happy with it or smth like that. which is ofc absolut bullsh*t and will just keep me from making music.
i think through your videos i learn to embrace experiment and failure and to celebrate the whole process. and that finding your sound, making your music, connecting with your people is a long long process.
Totally. It’s an ongoing process for sure and we evolve in all sorts of ways in life so it makes sense our approach to making music will as well.
UA-cam can be a great resource, but it’s a lot of information and not all of it is useful or suitable for us. It often seems to easy to simply say experiment and try stuff, but being able to actually do that well and navigate al the noise can be really tricky. I am always a little skeptical when some packages up a top 5 steps to do x. Seems like they are trying to sell me something. 😂
Glad it’s useful, cheers for watching.
Can’t believe you said about the s2800 akai I had one my first sampler my mum said was I mad taking a 2.5k loan out that no one knew how to use no UA-cam and went from there never made a penny but I’ve had many many health issues and I’m 52 now so stilll tinker but sold some much stuff due to being out of work 3 Times in intensive care had an andromeda a6 modal elelectronics 002 and 008 all gone just to survive got the rtym mk2 comming Wednesday as cash in retirement fund due to I’ll health which just covered it and your videos are a god send not many vids on it on here and I’m not sure if I’ll regret it as I’m not that patient so thanks again for everything your showing I know these take time no the project file will help not many people do that
Heey
Being a postie is hardcore, it’s so exhausting physically. I remember training so many people who bailed after a few days.
Hope your health is ok, it sucks when that happens. Many of my family have brushes with similar, and i have a slipped disc, although manage it. Work sucks, and it’s worse when it makes us sick. 🤍
The Akai S2800 is dope, i still have mine and it still sounds amazing and brings me so much joy using it. I think we probably were crazy spending the money we had to just to sample stuff, but that was our options back then.
Good to hear you’re still creating stuff, that’s where it’s at imo, in whatever form. It keeps us happy.
My mum and dad had already divorced by the time i got my Akai, but she would have definitely not been into the idea me spending that money. My dad just said “it’s your money, when it’s gone it’s gone”…classic dad talk 😂
Wishing you the best bud. 👍
interesting story, we all have our own journey to where we are.
@@domgraveson1942 thanks.
Life is a crazy journey for sure. Thx for your email too 👍
Really interesting and enjoyable to listen to, thanks for sharing.
Ah nice, appreciate the kind words. Cheers 💛
Nice to meet you! Excellent headphones choice! ;-)
Hey, 👋.
They are great headphones for sure. They translate so well. The padding fell apart unfortunately but my partner made some quirky thread replacement for me. 🧶😂
@ HD600
This is oral history. Thank you for sharing.
No worries, thanks for listening. 💛
Thanks for the insights... Listening, reflecting and relating.
No problem, thanks for listening and saying hey. 💛
pls share the PSS-480 recordings! I have been using the yamaha for about 3 years now and love it
Haha! Yeah sure, i’ll see if i can dig them out. They are pretty shit tho. It’s a great synth, i just didn’t use it well.
thanks for uploading this ✊really enjoyed it
Ah nice, glad it was enjoyable. Cheers
Thx for the background
Definitely some parallels. I mentioned that my mom had records, mostly pop and soul and what we know as classic rock today, but she had a few head scratchers like Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples, Tyrannosaurus Rex Beard of Stars and YMO self titled which has that crazy cover with the gal with the medusa hair but the snakes are wires, I used to stare at that as a kid and get lost in that music. I must've been 6 or 7. It's funny because I didn't really consciously get into "electronic music' when "electronic music" became a thing but I was always into it. Kraftwerk was another early love since it was in a lot of Hip Hop mixes early on and directly influenced electro. I went through a period of being a degenerate skate rat, punk kid in the mid 80's until I destroyed my ankle and started playing bass instead and eventually guitar. I listened to to a lot of noise and discovered Re Search magazine and bands like Throbbing Gristle and that lane of industrial music at the same time as more above ground industrial was coming out, wax traxx etc. I started a few bands a couple of them very experimental. This was all in Buffalo NY on the east coast. My friends were all very binary in their interests so when the rave scene made it's way through our region a lot of people either got caught up in that or were completely against it. The punks hated the ravers not realizing that the latter was just an extension of the former (look to Berlin for the connection) and I was mostly oblivious to all of it, doing my own thing. I was in good hands at the record store I worked at (94-95), the owner was responsible for bringing hip hop to Buffalo in the early 80's and had a line on amazing 12 inch stuff via multiple sources. He turned me on to Detroit techno when people were into whatever trendy flavor of the minute thing was happening, Chicago house also, fell in love with that stuff.
I moved to LA in 96, same thing, had to get out of the small town. I played guitar with a punk band out there, some og's. Also worked at a couple of record stores there right when Warp was hitting. I still have some early 12's, used to order from them for a store I managed just so I could get stuff. I took to some of that stuff right away. My interest in all kinds of music just proliferated during that period because nobody cared about vinyl and thrift stores were like a dream in Hollywood. Despite all of this I rarely DJ'd and when I did it was at punk shows.
All through this period I did do some recording. My experimental bands never rehearsed, only performed live, sometimes members were chosen day of. I recorded some of that stuff with a boom box. I started messing with cassettes early on also, first recording stuff off the radio and eventually getting a 4 track and recording experimental and punk stuff to sell at shows or give to friends. Never did a run of more than a dozen or so. I didn't start home recording until maybe 10 years ago and I never worked in the box since I came from that analog DIY world. I currently work with various instruments and a modular synth and samples, field recordings etc. and I never get bored of the endless possibilities. I think that since we started out just throwing stuff on tapes early on without the intent to release it, we aren't precious about the process, we just do it.
I also went through periods where I was working so much that it stifled all creativity. Not for lack of ideas, spend all day thinking of things only to be too exhausted to execute when you finally get the time. That's the worst space to be in for a creative.
Really amazing to hear all this. Truly.
My first Kraftwerk record, the Radioactivity LP, as you say referenced loads by electro/hiphop heads alike, friends thought were weird because they sung about Ohms or transmitter’s haha! I loved it and knew that in many ways i had already felt the early signs of needing to get out from under the small town mentality. Many friends are still in that town actually, and although i have grown thankfully away from that town, i do feel those that stayed have been swallowed even more. I’m very glad i left.
Music has a funny way of showing personality sometimes. Especially the punk stuff or the punk attitude. The get on and do it attitude, which i struggled with for so much at points, i think largely due to so many people wanting to stop me and say no, you can’t do that. Breaking free and finding a way to be more activated, that constant need to be doing something and being a better person in whatever way that finds itself, music has been key in doing so. If some Germans can make robotic music while wearing suits, if a whole group of people can rally behind a form of dance music, if various nerds and weirdos can share their creations out of their bedroom studios and touch others, then really so much is possible.
💛
@@ExpectResistance Well said man. I've enjoyed this exchange.
Indeed
thank you for sharing your story- very interesting to hear your talk - totally aligned with your thoughts - keep on the good work, the music of the label is amazing - I hope to have time send you some demos one day.
Ah nice appreciate that. Glad you are into the label.
Sure, always feel free to send something anytime.
Used to hit swanage skatepark … a lot
No way!!! Is it still there do you know?
@@ExpectResistance it is indeed! Went not too long ago, it’s changed over the years … more wooden ramps now.
Ah sweet. I’m tempted to buy a board again but not sure the ground is as soft as it used to be when I was in my teens haha.
@@ExpectResistance i very much recommend ... although your are not wrong , not sure what they put in the concrete these days :D
Haha!
Well. I listened to your label’s stuff and was like, oh shit, young people are so creative and extreme these days. You are my age. I do not know if it is worse or not. Is it my fault I sound 10 to 20 years too late ?
Never too late for anything. Lots of us are a different age, some our age, some younger.
Cheers for checking out the label, nice one 💛
You mentioned the noisy amazing music your partner makes. Where can I find it?
Ah i forgot to put it in the description, here you go. It’s fookin dope: luciahchung.com/
And I was a postie funny enough for 13 years got I’ll health twice so bought gear with that lol
i have point blank subscribed on my channel. thank you so much