We love music and we love the devices it's made of. So it's fair to say that we love bands named after the clothes they wear to play music. So it's a holiday for these artists.
To be fair, most of the artists we tried were from the 80s and 90s, when equipment was cheap and everyone was starting to make music. At that time there were two types of music lovers: those who danced to the music and those who were obsessed with the clothes he made. (Guess who we are, at least we haven't had arthritis, so who's laughing now?)
However, there have been many bands that Marsh has associated with since then, and here are some of the best, as well as some of the best songs. If you have any ideas for artists using their best gear and songs, please leave them in the comments. Enjoy!
808 Head Named after the drum machine that has dominated dance music since the mid-'80s, 808 State has released a number of genre-defining songs, most of which feature the actual 808.
Pacific Empire is probably their most famous and can you believe there was a time a song like this made the top 10? That's exactly what happened in 1989 when this excellent local house anthem was released. This track was mostly produced on the Roland SH-101. It costs now, about 1,000 pounds, about 60 dollars, according to an 808 State interview with Graham Massey's ransom memoir.
“Back then everyone was buying the DX7, anything without MIDI was considered redundant, but not for us. Back then, technofiction made things accessible for the first time.”
Twin Peaks Speaking of whale obsession, let's go straight to the masters, there are more legends around electronic music producers than there are in Greece.
The Aphex Twin is named after the Aphex Aural Exciter, the part that activates your voice. This is a simple explanation, although if you delve deeper into the world of Apex Twins, you can find several hundred more "revelations". But we stick with it, just for our sanity.
Other Aphex Twin stories include him having a studio in every room or castle in his house, tuning every available synthesizer, writing music in his sleep, and driving a tank. Don't forget the time he DJed sandpaper and brought a blender to the stage before wowing the crowd.
He seldom talks about the subject, and in doing so—or rather, not doing so—deepens his story. Basically, it's a Cornish specialty.
It's impossible to pick just one Apex Twins song, especially when music has been released under so many aliases, so excuse me, we're going to start with Analog Bubblebat from 1991. We have to work out the characters, okay. ?
Produce Sticking to electronic music icons, they couldn't get any better than magic.
Now this name is uniquely associated with small household appliances (as Wikipedia says). This came about when Prodigy sound maestro Liam Howlett shared the recording with band founders Keith Flint and Leroy Thornhill, who used the name of the synthesizer used in some of his work, Moog Prodigy. The rest, as they say... controversial and very popular singles.
Brilliance took the world by storm in the 90s with hits like Charly, Smack My Bitch Up, Voodoo People, Breathe and our obvious choice (but how could we not include this one?), 1996's Firestarter.
"I recorded it as an instrumental," he told NME in 1996. I told Keith. "We need one more ingredient." He said: I really want to try some sound in it. I said, "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
"I started singing with this weird accent, but it ended up getting bad." Kate added somewhat subduedly.
Video Firestarter became a phenomenon in the 1990s, mostly in the 1990s.
LFO: In the 80s and 90s there was no shortage of bands calling themselves "gear", especially electronics producers. Gear is a free (at the time) portal to the world of music that puts art in your hands without the need for great art. Another group in that period with a technology name was LFO, although we are now talking about certain parts of it, not all of them. We'll go to the special area later, I promise...
Mark Bell and Gez Varley have released a number of impressive albums, including LFO Frequencies (1991) and Advance (1996). Later, Bell became a very well-known producer, but sadly, he passed away in 2014. LFO has done enough to take their place in the history of electronic music. Four ways, Bell told the milkman.
There's only one LFO song to choose from, it's so good they (sort of) named it twice; LFO from LFO.
Thomas Dolby Let's turn back another decade to begin a journey worth seeing by Thomas Dalby. If you ever get the chance to read his biography, it's the speed of sound. His life makes you very jealous.
We're talking here about Dolby's rocket phase compared to Silicon Valley, cell phone music, David Bowie's keyboard playing in Live Aid or Hollywood Hills, him being one of synth-pop's first great heroes. . .
Thomas changed his last name from Robertson to Dolby to avoid confusion with Tom "War Lad" Robinson, choosing a noise reduction stage name. Okay, it's not exactly a kit, but it's just as, if not geekier than the LFO, so we like it.
Dolby wowed me with science, and with HyperActive it gave great results, but we went with Wind Power because it sounded a little louder. (You're lucky we didn't go all out and vote for Screen Kiss, which does the best job).
Luffy in Gear 5 👀😈 if he plays basketball VIDEO
