It's the weekend and wherever you are, have a good weekend. To get you started and the fun started, here are five artists named for their best outfits and songs.
We love music and we love the tools used to make it. So it's fair to say that we select artists who are named after the instrument they make music with. An artists festival is here.
Most of our selected artists are from the early 1980s and 1990s, when equipment was cheap and everyone was starting to make music. Back then, there were two types of music fans: those who danced to the music and those who were obsessed with the instrument that made it up. (Guess what we are: at least we don't have arthritis yet, so who's laughing?)
However, many bands with Marsh-related names have performed since then, and here are some of the best songs they have produced. If you have any other ideas for team-based acts and their best songs, please leave them in the comments. have fun!
808 states
Named after the drum machines that have dominated dance music since the mid-'80s, 808 State has released a host of genre-defining songs, many of which, thankfully, feature the 808 itself.
Pacific Empire is probably their most famous release and do you think there was ever a time when a song like this could become a top ten hit? That happened in 1989 when this wonderful local house song was released. This title was produced primarily on the Roland SH-101. According to Graham Massey of State 808 in an interview with The Ransom Note, it is now worth around £1,000 and then $60.
“Back then everyone was buying a DX7, anything without MIDI was considered an extra, not for us. The technological advancement of the time made things affordable and practical for the first time.
twin peaks
Speaking of gear obsession, let's get straight to the maestro, an electronic music producer with more legends than Greece.
Aphex Twin takes its name from the Aphex Aural Exciter, a device that energizes your voice. That's a straightforward explanation, though if you delve deeper into the world of Apex Twins, you'll be able to find several hundred more "revelations." Yet we cling to it, if only for common sense reasons.
In other Aphex Twin stories, he had a studio in every room of his house or castle, tuned every synthesizer he owned, wrote music in his sleep, and drove a tank all the time. Don't forget the time when I was DJing with Sandpaper and bringing Blender onstage.
He rarely mentions this, and when he does (or doesn't) it only feeds the story. It's actually a Cornish craft.
There's no question an Apex Twins song should be picked, especially since they've released music under so many pseudonyms. So if you'll excuse us, let's go with Analog Bubblebat from 1991. It works, okay?
It is wonderful
You can't capture the epitome of electronic music better than Prodigy.
Now, that name must refer to small tools (because Wikipedia says so). It all started when the master behind the Prodigy sound, Lim Howlett, shared a tape with founding members Keith Flint and Leroy Thornhill, noting the name of the synthesizer used in some of their music: Moog Prodigy. The rest are, as they say, controversial singles and beats.
The prodigy took the world by storm in the '90s with hits like "Charlie," "Smack My Beach Up," "Voodoo People," "Breathe" and our obvious choice (how could we not include that?), "Firestarter." ."', 1996.
"I see it as a tool," Liam said in 1996. "We need another body," I told Keith. 'That?'
“I ended up singing in this weird accent, but the ending sounds…intimidating,” Keith added, a bit understated.
Video Firestarter became a phenomenon in the 1990s. It was basically the 1990s.
L.F.O.
In the 80s and 90s there was no shortage of bands that called themselves Gear, especially electronic producers. The kit was a (then) inexpensive portal into the world of music creation, putting art in your hands without much art. Another band with a technological name back then was LFO, although today we are talking about a part, not the whole. We'll cover some of the clues later, I promise...
Mark Bell and Gez Varley put out some great albums, including LFO Frequencies (1991) and Advance (1996). Bell went on to become a very popular producer, but sadly passed away in 2014. However, LFO has done enough to cement its place in electronic music history: “It came naturally, we bought some synths at a thrift store, they recorded them "in four songs," Bell told Dairy.
You only have one LFO line to choose from, so name it twice: LFO, for LFO.
Thomas Dolby
We take our time machines back to the next decade and take an unmissable trip to see Thomas Dolby. If you ever get a chance to read his biography, the speed of sound. Your life is very jealous.
Whether we're talking about Dolby's "hit" episode, as opposed to "Silicon Valley," "Mobile Phone Music," David Bowie's Live Help episode, or his "Hollywood Hills" episode, it was one of the first. Great episodes: show up to become a hero.
Thomas changed his last name from Robertson to Dolby to avoid confusion with Tom "War Baby" Robinson, opting for a standard name with sound reduction. Ok, not necessarily Gear, but we like it when it's not as geeky as "LFO".
Dolby dazzled me with science and hyperactivity, but we were a little more curious and chose wind power. (Luckily we didn't try everything and chose Screen Pocket, really great job.)
