Re: [AH] AH .... lost & found story

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:
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> What goes around sometimes comes around. I love a happy ending!
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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=
!!!!!
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> Got to head to the mastering facility soon, with 4-6 new records coming o=
ut of all of this!
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> Todd