Pop Music with a connection to the eight bit computers
Pop Music with a connection to the eight bit computers
I heard a sample of your woman by white town on an advert yesterday. Then I did a bit of googling as was surprised to learn he used an Atari ST to record the song. And later released a album called peek and poke.
Re: Pop Music with a connection to the eight bit computers
The Atari ST, and later the Atari Falcon was used in a lot of recording studios from the mid eighties to mid nineties for MIDI and SMPTE control.
Whitetown was featured in a few music tech magazines like Sound on Sound when the first single was released, as an example of using home recording kit / lofi tech for a professional recording (a rare event back in those days of big record labels and pre-mainstream www).
Chris Sievey will no doubt feature in this discussion somewhere.
Whitetown was featured in a few music tech magazines like Sound on Sound when the first single was released, as an example of using home recording kit / lofi tech for a professional recording (a rare event back in those days of big record labels and pre-mainstream www).
Chris Sievey will no doubt feature in this discussion somewhere.
Re: Pop Music with a connection to the eight bit computers
Vince Clarke, of Erasure et al, was an avid BBC Micro user for his sequencing work. There's videos and lots of great pictures of him using BBCs and them sitting in his studio set-up, even many years later.
The 16-bit Atari ST was a pretty affordable home and school MIDI sequencer; definitely a familiar tool to most GCSE music students at the time.
As it's the instruments connected to the computer that actual make the "noise", the fact you're using 8-bit or 16-bit machines to sequence doesn't really show up in the music itself.
The 16-bit Atari ST was a pretty affordable home and school MIDI sequencer; definitely a familiar tool to most GCSE music students at the time.
As it's the instruments connected to the computer that actual make the "noise", the fact you're using 8-bit or 16-bit machines to sequence doesn't really show up in the music itself.