Ohhhhhhh! It's a 112BPM thumper, made with leftover S900 samples, a Roland JX8P, Prophet VS and a Synclavier. Recorded in March 1989 in the MIDI suite at Audio One Studios. Respect is due to Alex Charalambous. We finished work for the day and found a floppy in the S900, left behind from the previous session. The beat sounded funky and we got inspired. What followed was a full speed flurry of ideas. No messing - we just used whatever the currently selected patches were in the synths and printed straight to tape. An absolute noise-gasm in just 90 minutes.
Download: A good quality cassette dub MP3 file. Also the COVERART.
Sample and Synth ingredients: The bassline is played on the JX8P (preset 25 'SyncLead'); Jane Fonda says Ohhh and breathes heavily in the movie Klute, which was sampled by S-Express for L'Age du Gateaux, and subsequently re-sampled by me from their 24 track master when they weren't looking; the 1 2 3 4 came from their same Ampex multitrack; the foundation break is Kool and the Gang's 'Give it up' found on an floppy which someone left behind in the Akai S900; the Sequential Circuits Prophet VS lead synth kicks in (can't remember what patch we used); Who Do You Love by Bernard Wright is the alternate breakbeat, found on the same discarded S900 floppy; Jane Fonda is out of breath again; someone says Two Three from the same lost floppy and I would dearly love to know who she is and where this sample comes from; a snatch of the chorus of the Clash's Rock The Casbah, played on a Yamaha TX802; the beat cuts out and the studio's Synclavier II plays our 'Braindead' patch which was funny at the time but is rather jarring now; another verse and chorus; the breakdown is Jane again with some pitchbending to make a funky percussive loop; eight bars of Rock the Casbah; Jane's percussive breath carries us to the end, with some extra Ohhs Twos Threes and a couple of Braindeads to finish.
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