From Tristan Sent Tue, Sep 25th 2018, 02:16
From Tristan Sent Tue, Sep 25th 2018, 02:16
Excellent news! On Tue, Sep 25th, 2018 at 11:54 AM, sines <xxxxx_xxxx@xxxxx.xx> wrote: > Here’s 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 > <http://www.facebook.com/toddsines/posts/10156820152260891> > https://www.instagram.com/p/BoHPpwuFOIz/ > <https://www.instagram.com/p/BoHPpwuFOIz/> > > In 1992, I started analogue heaven, the first forum focused on the > discussion, 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 > biogenetics at U of M in Ann Arbor was looking for one, so I sold it to him > for $303. > > In 1993, his friend John Boys, a.k.a. New Signal, Interdimensional > Transmissions' BMG, and I all appear on Carl Craig’s Planet E for Elements > Of and Experiments With Sound, which kickstarted all of our careers in music. > I finally meet the new 303 owner, Ian Maclachlan and a friendship is born. > For some strange and yet not strange at all reason, I sent Ian complete > 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 / YORE. > Ian moved to Vienna, and I “domesticate” and slip away from music for a > while. > > In 2003, I moved from Toronto to NYC, and “sign” a shady sublet. The > lease holder is behind on utilities + rent and gets himself evicted while I > am out of the country on tour. I come back to find that my clothes were > thrown out, my portfolio destroyed, my TR909 + CS15 stolen, my photos, > pilfered, and all of my DAT and cassette masters have vanished from > 1991-2003. 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 and > HELIC.AL, concurrently getting requests for older material that I don’t > have anywhere. During the last two years of Detroit’s Movement 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, during which this > time he’s developed hundreds of patents for helping treat 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 > years ago. Yesterday, as we reflected on what an incredible weekend we had > over a beer, he shows me his random boxes of obsolete car, computer and audio > gear, and casually pulls out old tapes — the complete .xtrak, enhanced + > neriq demos. I am still pinching myself — miracles do happen!!!!! > > Got to head to the mastering facility soon, with 4-6 new records coming out > of all of this! > > > Todd