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It's probably safe to assume that a lot of us didn't start out as ambient musicians so what are your musical backgrounds and if possible can you let us hear some? You probably know that i started out as a drummer/backing vocalist in a death metal band and after that i wrote a lot of acoustic based material which i am reworking for future release. So, who's next?:biggrin:
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I can let you listen to a few snippets from when I was about 16 - it was my first - er - "album," entirely made with toys, non-instruments and a plastic electric organ and recorded on audiocassettes... these are just very short fragments from a few of the tracks on the album.
Very embarrassing, but here we go:
www.macvibes.com/TEMPORSOUNDS/EAS_Mac_of_BIOnighT-early_snippets.mp3
It contained a few ideas I'd like to develop some day, though. -
some pretty cool sounds there for a 16 year oldComment
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Thank youOriginally posted by Negative Spectrum View Post
For the reverb (and a few special sounds) I used one of these big fellas (I placed the mic inside)
It was a lot of fun, even if I dreamed of electronic reverb units... Some day I want to make an album using solely all those things again.Comment
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You totally should, It makes you come up with ingenious ways of creating music.Comment
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Very true. I'll need a good soundboard and mike first, though :-/ Right now, all I'd get is a record made of buzzes...Comment
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Prog-rock is great, although I'm mostly familiar with the Italian brand of it. Banco del Mutuo Soccorso are simply the best and they are God to me, and their album Darwin is an absolute masterpiece
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I had a couple of PFM albums long, long ago, seem to remember they were pretty good.
I guess in the early 80s, uk schools were still quite 'segregated' musically (metalheads, punks, soulboys...) My friends were all into metal though I was never a massive fan so drifted towards prog... Got bored with it (80s prog just one step away from AOR...) but still drift back occasionally.
Anyway, I started listening to John Peels show religiously and that opened me up to pretty much anything. Particularly liked the 'lofi' guitar bands of the time (sonic youth, pavement, polvo etc) so my first real musical dabblings were a cheap strat copy straight into a four track with the drum sounds of a cheap keyboard providing rhythm. Not pretty. Not sure I have any surviving recordings but may post if I can find them...Comment
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May I suggest you give a listen to this? You'll be missing the amazing lyrics, but even so, I don't think you'll regret itOriginally posted by GaryG View Post
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Sounds good from the first ten minutes or so, I'll dirpy it and give it a proper listen over the weekend, thanks!Comment
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