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I don't know how far this story can go back but I think it would take me to my childhood. I used to be very intriged by music, especially the sound of it. I still can recall an image of me recording a song on tape and then playing it back together with the original record, almost simultanious, this gave a very strange effect, which, as I learnt later, was called phasing.
I also "discovered" the doppler-effect by putting a speaker on my recordplayer ( don't try this at home!). And multitracking, by recording first on the left and then on the right channel of a tapedeck. I also was nearly obsessed with reel to reel tape-recorders. Just watching them roll has the same effect on me as a fireplace to someone else. Or am I getting too romantic here?
Fast forward to the summer of 2002. I was working as a performer three times a week and working as a barman three nights a week which was very exhausting and at the end of that summer I planned to take a year off. In these days all my friends were building there own homestudio's and looking at a screen all night long. Doing things you can easily perform with analog gear, well euh easily...
In may of that year I was asked to do a score of a movie called F-move and since the soundtrack had to be a bit dreamy, I started to build a soundtrack with lots of layers tapeloops and experimenting with found sounds played on half speed of the reel to reels. During the presentation of that film the crowd went wild...
After this busy summer I picked up my music plan where I left it and started to make and record songs in the same way I 've been working on this soundtrack. This was the beginning of The Magnetic Wave Of Sound. They say the most common mistakes home-recorders make are spending too much time on details and trying to make limited equipment do more than it can deliver. I'm guilty as hell!!!
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Nice Reviews:
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ronic-albums-of-2007-pt-1/
