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Decadentwest

Acerbic Synth Pop

About Me


I've got this collection of analogue synthesizers from the 70's & 80's so, rather than sit looking at them, I thought I should produce a few tunes.
All of the sounds were programmed from scratch using these old machines. The drums and percussion were all produced using a Roland System 100, Sequential Prophet 600, Roland Jupiter 6 (when it worked), and an Akai VX600 prototype. All of the other sounds were various old monophonic Rolands, Siels, Arps, & Moogs and stuff like that. There's a little bit of Doepfer modular in there too. I hope to use this more as I put more modules in it.
However, it isn't just about the machines for me. I love coming up with concepts and lyrics too but I just prefer to use analogue synths to get my ideas across rather than guitars or a piano, both of which I use to write sometimes (and play badly). I grew up listening to synthesizer pioneers like John Foxx and Kraftwerk so that's my thing. I’m not particularly interested in 80’s music per se but I guess there’s no getting away from the association because of the kind of instruments I use.Electronic music (or any type of music actually) is always at its best when there is a strong concept behind it I think. I’m not interested in musicianship for the sake of musicianship so half hour guitar or synth solos really annoy me.......a lot.
Thanks for taking the time to read this far and I hope you enjoy my music.

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Member Since: 4/2/2007
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Analogue Synthesizers, Doepfer Musikelektronik, Kraftwerk, BBC Radiophonics Workshop, Vince Clarke, Yazoo, John Foxx, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The Human League, Pet Shop Boys, Joy Division, Sparks, Tears for Fears, Daft Punk, Underworld, Aphex Twin, LFO, Hardfloor, Autechre, John Barry, Suede, Karl Bartos, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Marc Bolan, The Kinks, A-ha, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Vangelis, John Carpenter, Timbaland, Philip Glass, Don Buchla, Polyfusion, Dave Smith & Sequential Circuits Inc, Tom Oberheim, Roland, Akai, Alan R Pearlman (ARP) & Robert Moog et al.


Sounds Like: Lots of analogue synthesizers playing at the same time.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

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I Just started recording my first vocal performance in 4 years and my bastard microphone has just decided to shit itself to death.I think I'm going to cry...yes I am actually crying. .....
Posted by Decadentwest on Fri, 18 May 2007 12:56:00 PST