From Andrew Horton Sent Tue, Sep 25th 2018, 19:35
That's a sweet, wholesome story. Nice to hear one. On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 1:40 PM <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > What goes around sometimes comes around. I love a happy ending! > > > > > > > > > -------- Original Message ---------- > > Here=E2=80=99s a little tale of Lost & Found and about how AH brought me,= my friend, and my music back together after 25 years. > http://www.facebook.com/toddsines/posts/10156820152260891 > https://www.instagram.com/p/BoHPpwuFOIz/ > > In 1992, I started analogue heaven, the first forum focused on the discus= sion, usage, modification, sales & trades of analogue synths. I found a TB = 303 in a pawn shop in Ohio, and a list member working on his post doc in bi= ogenetics at U of M in Ann Arbor was looking for one, so I sold it to him f= or $303. > > In 1993, his friend John Boys, a.k.a. New Signal, Interdimensional Transm= issions' BMG, and I all appear on Carl Craig=E2=80=99s Planet E for Element= s Of and Experiments With Sound, which kickstarted all of our careers in mu= sic. I finally meet the new 303 owner, Ian Maclachlan and a friendship is b= orn. For some strange and yet not strange at all reason, I sent Ian complet= e copies of all of my unreleased .xtrak, enhanced and neriq material that I= shopped to Dan Bell, Carl Craig, Peacefrog and Andy Vaz of Background / YO= RE. Ian moved to Vienna, and I =E2=80=9Cdomesticate=E2=80=9D and slip away = from music for a while. > > In 2003, I moved from Toronto to NYC, and =E2=80=9Csign=E2=80=9D a shady = sublet. The lease holder is behind on utilities + rent and gets himself evi= cted while I am out of the country on tour. I come back to find that my clo= thes were thrown out, my portfolio destroyed, my TR909 + CS15 stolen, my ph= otos, pilfered, and all of my DAT and cassette masters have vanished from 1= 991-2003. I start anew in NYC, with nothing but a laptop and begin building= my studio again. Years go by, Charles Noel & I are building both + SCALE a= nd HELIC.AL, concurrently getting requests for older material that I don=E2= =80=99t have anywhere. During the last two years of Detroit=E2=80=99s Movem= ent Electronic Music Festival, our old friend Ian passes by our event, THE = END, and we reconnect after not seeing one another for over 20 years, durin= g which this time he=E2=80=99s developed hundreds of patents for helping tr= eat and cure Ebola and HIV. > > He invited me to Vancouver this weekend and gives me a quick tour on the = first day of his studio, featuring not much more than the 303 I sold him ye= ars ago. Yesterday, as we reflected on what an incredible weekend we had ov= er a beer, he shows me his random boxes of obsolete car, computer and audio= gear, and casually pulls out old tapes =E2=80=94 the complete .xtrak, enha= nced + neriq demos. I am still pinching myself =E2=80=94 miracles do happen= !!!!! > > Got to head to the mastering facility soon, with 4-6 new records coming o= ut of all of this! > > > Todd