All of Albini's bands have crowning moments. I would have to say that the recording style of the Shellac records(first few) really influence how I like things to sound in general.
Plus his studio is obscene.
Big Black/Steve Albini
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All of Albini's bands have crowning moments. I would have to say that the recording style of the Shellac records(first few) really influence how I like things to sound in general.
Plus his studio is obscene.
Plus his studio is obscene.
tetno: https://soundcloud.com/richard-holhburn
Goiks: A eurorack setup is a contemporary folk instrument. Relatively accessible and portable. Largely by, of and for the people.
Goiks: A eurorack setup is a contemporary folk instrument. Relatively accessible and portable. Largely by, of and for the people.
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I feel the same about his bands but I have fond memories of seeing Shellac play on a riverboat (cruising the Mississippi River no less) in the 90s or early 00s. It wasn't especially loud but they sounded great.Chrome Dinette wrote:I don't listen to them that much these days
A friend of mine saw Shellac play a 9 AM show where they served everyone breakfast.
Re: Big Black/Steve Albini
Does anyone know which drum machine was used on Songs About Fucking? There's alot of tape saturation, and its hard to tell if its a tr606 or a tr 707 on that album.
Re: Big Black/Steve Albini
Roland TR-606
“I’m proud of the way we used Roland ,” Albini says. “I feel like it’s an underutilized instrument. It kind of bothers me that it was not taken seriously as an instrument by other people. It was used as kind of a simulacrum of a regular drummer, or just as a slightly fancy metronome. In Big Black, the drum machine got to stretch its legs a little. Even now, I can’t think of another band that used the drum machine in a similar fashion.”
“Big Black’s use of the drum machine was excellent,” Wire bassist Graham Lewis says. “They gave it its own amp stack and placed it centerstage like a traditional drummer. This gave the band its ferocious rhythmic focus. Bruce [Gilbert, former Wire guitarist] and I loved drum machines; I bought my first in 1979. We approved of the inflexibility of Big Black’s drum machine policy at the time.”
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“I’m proud of the way we used Roland ,” Albini says. “I feel like it’s an underutilized instrument. It kind of bothers me that it was not taken seriously as an instrument by other people. It was used as kind of a simulacrum of a regular drummer, or just as a slightly fancy metronome. In Big Black, the drum machine got to stretch its legs a little. Even now, I can’t think of another band that used the drum machine in a similar fashion.”
“Big Black’s use of the drum machine was excellent,” Wire bassist Graham Lewis says. “They gave it its own amp stack and placed it centerstage like a traditional drummer. This gave the band its ferocious rhythmic focus. Bruce [Gilbert, former Wire guitarist] and I loved drum machines; I bought my first in 1979. We approved of the inflexibility of Big Black’s drum machine policy at the time.”
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Re: Big Black/Steve Albini
I had a convo with Steve once on “roland.” He was gonna let me borrow it for a queer Big Black parody project that never really got it together. Apparently Roland wasn’t actually a Roland - if I remember right he said it was actually a Sequential Circuits Drumtracks or Tom? I saw the Atomizer tour, but didn’t notice what drum machine they were using - but damn it was a great show (even if a drum machine crash caused a pause). Anyhow, I cross paths with him less these days, but if I see him again I’ll ask.
Re: Big Black/Steve Albini
ah!
Thanks for sending me back into research mode:
"On Lungs and Bulldozer, I had a Roland TR606. On everything else, it was an E-Mu Drumulator. On Racer-X, I borrowed Steve Bjorklund's. After that, I owned one."
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