New Gear

The one on the left was already my favorite Mic for recording everything with a speaker in it (guitar-amps, philicorda, stylophone erhm… that’s it basically) but now I found her a little buddy to play with. One is always better than 2 don’t you think?

If you inspect the angle they are in now you can easily put a leslie in the middle and that is exactly what I am planning to do.

Most Studios are raving about these md421′s how awesome they sound on tomtoms, and indeed they found the way to my home without a problem.

Onwards and upwards!

Nova was a ‘commercial’ side-band for the synthesizer-band Peru. This song (Aurora) was a nr.2 hit in Holland in 1983. They don’t get any simpler than this. The melody is just one phrase over 2 chords, repeated twice . The only thing that happens is that it shifts through a few keys.

Why is this music not being made anymore? Agreed writing an annoying melody like this AND record it without shooting yourself halfway the process isn’t that easy. I must say, the tunes I wrote in this style are all in the thrash. Being this shameless is something I can only bow my head in respect for.

One of the band members in Nova was Rob Papen, a now pretty famous sound-designer and writer of popular synth plugins for Mac and PC. The other band he was in -Peru- had a minor hit with ‘Africa‘. That song is a bit more experimental, but equally mind-numbing