Re: (idm) The good ol' days (Polygon Window)

From thatcat
Sent Mon, Apr 27th 1998, 03:00

On 04/26/98 21:54:53 you wrote:
>My oldest IDM-record is probably Polygon Window (aka Aphex Twin) 'Surfing on
>Sinewaves'
>Warp 7, Artificial Intelligence series (that's probably where they got the name
>IDM)
>It sounds early nineties - well, it IS early nineties.

actually the stuff may have been written in the late 80's, it sounds like stuff from the same era as saw 85-92...

> It has single-layered
>synths (not those complicated sounds of modern synths, but just one waveform)
>and tr-303 or tr-909 drums.

just to be a good music geek, those are mostly tr-606 drums. and there is no tr-303 drum machine, but there is a tb-303 bass synth which is used on the untitled track 7. 

np: newcleus "jam on it"...speaking of thee good old days, one of the most defining musical moments of my childhood...

"a dream is worth a thousand pictures,
 the mouths of lampreys a thousand more..."