Reminiscing

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feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:15:12 GMT

trust me

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feeds@yuku.com (emat) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:42:39 GMT

well pause tapes for listening pleasure i usta do. science pure science making those tracks connect seamlessly. time+patience+pressure

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feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:07:22 GMT

Yeah man, The Magic Wardrobe. It consisted of Rameses (Cak.1's twin brother) MC Ni - Ako who went on to become A.B from Scientest Of Sound.
I'd pass through every now and then and get in the wardrobe, up there in Kensal Rise. Also a beat boxer by the name of Jimmy Bucks would pass through. Good Days
He had a 4 track and mashed up pioneer deck , but we made stuff happen

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feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:01:31 GMT

Trust me Ish I know. I remember I used to do Pause loops of a break. Then I'd get one of my drum break albums and matched a beat that would fit nicely. and record it onto the tape. Take it out and work out some scratches and put another tape in. By the time I was done I'd have a full some but with wak quality. From that I'd book a studio, were we used to pay £5 per hour and book 6 hours (back then half your giro was gone) and create music. It made making music a lot quicker doing...

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feeds@yuku.com (Ishfaq) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:01:29 GMT

Yeah man, I started out with a twin tape deck. I used to record something on one side, then put that tape in the play deck and record that and me playing over the top, then swap again for the next take and so on. Serious quality reduction on each take!

Eventually upgraded to an old second hand Fostex 4-track. Felt like a real producer when I got that! After a while I got myself an Akai S950, but I didn't have anything to sequence it with so I used to play it with the sample...

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feeds@yuku.com (Cookie 100) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:51:59 GMT

Lol shut up Magic.

who taught you how to do the I roll??

What does that...

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feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:12:24 GMT

I remember before Scientists Of Sound were created, they were called The Magic Warbrobe because they used to vocal in Ako's warebrobe. The things we did huh. Thats a classic photo, who's under the quilt. Strong Island days boy.

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feeds@yuku.com (decoyseven) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:55:27 GMT

tip #1 if you go for a high tog rating dont expect more than a 16 bar as it can get quite hot in the sound booth!

Bitty Mclean....there was more than one hit, aint he from Acton?

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feeds@yuku.com (tasha tp) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:44:38 GMT

http://www.myspace.com/bittymcleanmusic

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feeds@yuku.com (CeRaMiC) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:26:22 GMT

Stop lying cookie, i taught you everything you know about making beats!!!!

and that the thanks i get? giving next man credit?

thats low, who taught you how to do the I roll?? who huh who? me thats who?

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feeds@yuku.com (Cookie 100) — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:02:22 GMT

That old skool vocal booth is looking tight. I'm looking to get one myself, what sort of quilt would you recommend?

I first started making beats in 1999 at Collage. We used one of the early cubases and a mid 90s Roland sound modules but that is unfortunately as old skool as I've ever been in the studio....

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feeds@yuku.com (tasha tp) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:03 GMT

That really is old skool recording!

Wicked lickle insight into the makings of some of the early R stuff, thx

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feeds@yuku.com (official) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:03:40 GMT

Ok this was Reinforced Gus's studio.. well actually his bedroom (lol) but this where we did tracks like 'Mr Kirks Nightmare' and nuff really early R stuff. Before the Jungle days we were making hip hop so whenever we had to do a late night vocal take Gus would cover the vocalist/rapper with his quilt or duvet so that we wouldn't disturb his parents sleeping in the next...

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feeds@yuku.com (Kolonel) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:51:35 GMT

Very interesting thread Mr Austin. I think many moons ago, making music was for the extremly die-hard, the student or the well-off. I talk to people today about them buying an Akai S950 and it costing them an arm and a leg!!

I think its an amazing thing today that people have so much access to music technology, with new minds come ne ideas, so I guess its about letting people develop and experiment with sound, unfortunatly, everybody wants to get rich off music, which means that...

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feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:03:33 GMT

Again myself Bunny and a mate of ours (Justin O, who was the music editor of The New Nation newspaper) were talking last night and Justin asked the question. Which period of time was better, Then or Now...... We all agree that both periods have so many pro's and con's.

One of the con's we agreed with is that right now theres such a saturarion of music through the ease of obtaining software based equipment, U Tube, Myspace & Channel U, however saturation is not always...

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feeds@yuku.com (somatik7) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:42:42 GMT

Hehe! Definitely. I'm teaching Music Technology A-Level at the moment, and I've just been going through the 1980s period with them explaining about all that stuff. Mostly they just look at me blankly, as if to say 'synchronizing to tape? what's that all about??!' They have no concept of the idea of separate bits of equipment any more! Blimey, the kids today...etc....

Seriously though, they're pretty involved really, one in particular is making some mad...

Reminiscing

feeds@yuku.com (Steve Austin AD) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:14:13 GMT

Not really a discussion, but more of an observation,

I was sitting talking with some of the guys from The Rock recently and we were discussing music and the difference / ease it is to create nowadays compared to yester year.

We were talking about Atari's and dongals. quarter inch reels and...