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What Are You Listening To Right Now (Part 15)
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I've listened to a lot of remixes of this song but this one is probably my favorite
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This is interesting.
It's like early 90's techno -- dirtied up Roland 303, 143 BPM, more traditionally sequenced than impossibly glitched out with plugins. But kinda produced like a big house track with a lot of emphasis on heavy reverb and 'space'.
Fun fact:
The Roland 303 synthesizer was produced between 1981 and 1984. It actually failed commercially and only ever sold about 10k units at heavy discount just to get rid of them.
I mean, people still used them here and there, notably by this Scottish band called Orange Juice who programmed it for the bassline on their 1983 song Rip It Up:
But in 1987, a DJ group from Chicago called Phuture bought one and discovered if they cranked the resonance knob (basically a filter that emphasizes a very narrow band of frequencies) and fiddled with it real-time, like an actual instrument, it produced a "squelchy" sound. The first song they made with it was in 1987:
...this literally and without exaggeration spawned an entire new genre of electronic music (acid) that spread globally within a few years and branched off into several sub-genres. People don't realize how much the the Roland 303 changed everything once people learned how to use it in unintended ways.
It defined the sound and culture of hundreds of thousands of songs for decades and is still being used today. Acid house, big beat, techno, trance, idm, electro, breaks, goa, drum n' bass -- every single one of those, in some way, can be traced back to the Roland 303 in the mid-to-late 80's.
In fact, I'd say if anyone has any kind of taste for electronic dance music whatsoever, they should look at this picture in awe; astonished at how much creativity and music was born through its circuitry.
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This is probably the best example of the resonance abuse (and is similar to the song you posted) -- Higher State Of Consciousness by Josh Wink in 1995:
...today, this would probably be considered harsh and grating just because of how production styles have changed in the past 30 years. People don't want their ears stabbed like this.
But if I had to pick any song that defined the 90's electronic music / 303 sound, I'd have to go with this one.
...today, this would probably be considered harsh and grating just because of how production styles have changed in the past 30 years. People don't want their ears stabbed like this.
But if I had to pick any song that defined the 90's electronic music / 303 sound, I'd have to go with this one.
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I do lol. Stab my ears until they are bleeding and raw, please.
And thank you for sharing, excellent posts and I value your depth of knowledge. Can't fully or properly appreciate what you're hearing while being unaware of all of this. Just makes me love it even more.
