Comments for uncarved.org blog http://www.uncarved.org/blog John Eden: BM Box 3641, London WC1N 3XX, England Tue, 15 May 2012 01:22:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by JIMBOB MCHALE http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-5377 JIMBOB MCHALE Tue, 15 May 2012 01:22:31 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-5377 In fact, here's something concrete from the band's bio on their official site, Sputnikworld: "kinda manic donna summer in dub, from the limitations of the 808 and the pro 1 and the way the Akai porta studio was wired up gave us the sputnik sound!" In fact, here’s something concrete from the band’s bio on their official site, Sputnikworld:

“kinda manic donna summer in dub, from the limitations of the 808 and the pro 1 and the way the Akai porta studio was wired up gave us the sputnik sound!”

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by JIMBOB MCHALE http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-5376 JIMBOB MCHALE Tue, 15 May 2012 01:18:36 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-5376 John, such effects also feature prominently on Sputnik's 1984 demos as collected on The First Generation. John, such effects also feature prominently on Sputnik’s 1984 demos as collected on The First Generation.

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by TREVOR BLAKE http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-5319 TREVOR BLAKE Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:03:39 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-5319 DEVO was to the factory floor and Laibach was to the bureaucrat's office what Heaven 17 was to the corporate boardroom. Very glad to see this blog post - significant but forgotten work by these bands. Stewart Home influenced Grant Morrison who made comic book versions of some of these ideas in <em>The Invisibles</em>. DEVO was to the factory floor and Laibach was to the bureaucrat’s office what Heaven 17 was to the corporate boardroom.

Very glad to see this blog post – significant but forgotten work by these bands. Stewart Home influenced Grant Morrison who made comic book versions of some of these ideas in The Invisibles.

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by DOWNPRESSOR http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-5260 DOWNPRESSOR Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:40:56 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-5260 John - The first "pro" sampler I owned wasn't until about 88 but I had access to some before then but I do remember <i>trying</i> something like that with a Casio SK-1 I scored in 85. It didn't have pitch bend but I remember having a cassette deck with variable playback speed and we bent the beats that way and sampled from there. Too crude for what SSS did, but the idea was out there for sure. John – The first “pro” sampler I owned wasn’t until about 88 but I had access to some before then but I do remember trying something like that with a Casio SK-1 I scored in 85. It didn’t have pitch bend but I remember having a cassette deck with variable playback speed and we bent the beats that way and sampled from there. Too crude for what SSS did, but the idea was out there for sure.

]]> Comment on Crass Brown by ROB http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/crass-brown/#comment-5089 ROB Mon, 02 Apr 2012 13:49:37 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=5156#comment-5089 please kill me...again... :) please kill me…again… :)

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by JOHN http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-4256 JOHN Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:32:48 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-4256 That's pretty mad, Uncle Wazza! Presumably the Sputnik Corp advert was an SSS composition... but yeah a bit weird having ID Magazine or whoever gaining publishing royalties from their advert on the album. Downpressor - yeah I dunno either, I'm pretty sure that Love Missile was the first time I heard that effect, but I'd be interested in other examples. I've never owned a keyboard or a sampler so I don't know how easy or hard it would be to do that - seems like you are saying it's fairly off the peg. That’s pretty mad, Uncle Wazza! Presumably the Sputnik Corp advert was an SSS composition… but yeah a bit weird having ID Magazine or whoever gaining publishing royalties from their advert on the album.

Downpressor – yeah I dunno either, I’m pretty sure that Love Missile was the first time I heard that effect, but I’d be interested in other examples. I’ve never owned a keyboard or a sampler so I don’t know how easy or hard it would be to do that – seems like you are saying it’s fairly off the peg.

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by UNCLE WAZZA http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-4248 UNCLE WAZZA Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:33:13 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-4248 A little side-note regarding the adverts between the tracks on Flaunt It: EMI actually went to court to determine the ownership of the 'gap between tracks on a record' as part of their preparation for publishing the Flaunt It album, and from memory they were joined by legal representatives of the band. I can't find my photocopy of the article where I read about this, but I remember it was in a 1986 edition of the London Times; wouldn't be too hard to find. A little side-note regarding the adverts between the tracks on Flaunt It: EMI actually went to court to determine the ownership of the ‘gap between tracks on a record’ as part of their preparation for publishing the Flaunt It album, and from memory they were joined by legal representatives of the band. I can’t find my photocopy of the article where I read about this, but I remember it was in a 1986 edition of the London Times; wouldn’t be too hard to find.

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by DOWNPRESSOR http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-4126 DOWNPRESSOR Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:17:22 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-4126 John, Don't know who was the first to release a record, depends how you qualify "record". Like major label, minor label, self released cassettes or what? That track was released Feb/Mar 86, samplers with pitch bend had been commercially available for a few years before that but that was the year that the market blew up with models from Akai, Roland and some others hitting the price points to make em more affordable. I guess getting £4M made it easy to get access to gear for SSS. John,

Don’t know who was the first to release a record, depends how you qualify “record”. Like major label, minor label, self released cassettes or what? That track was released Feb/Mar 86, samplers with pitch bend had been commercially available for a few years before that but that was the year that the market blew up with models from Akai, Roland and some others hitting the price points to make em more affordable. I guess getting £4M made it easy to get access to gear for SSS.

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by JOHN http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-4123 JOHN Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:13:45 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-4123 Ha! some great comments folks :-) Downpressor - well the pitchbending thing is interesting, who was the first to release a record with it on? Andy - yeah the whole "virtual reality is sexy" thing also touches on all that with mags like Mondo 2000 and the entrepreneurialism too. Bat - :-) Ha! some great comments folks :-)

Downpressor – well the pitchbending thing is interesting, who was the first to release a record with it on?

Andy – yeah the whole “virtual reality is sexy” thing also touches on all that with
mags like Mondo 2000 and the entrepreneurialism too.

Bat – :-)

]]> Comment on notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish by BAT020 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2012/03/notes-on-sigue-sigue-sputnik-and-the-boardroom-fetish/#comment-4022 BAT020 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:06:08 +0000 http://www.uncarved.org/blog/?p=2186#comment-4022 THOSE ARE THE MOST PUNK LYRICS EVER THOSE ARE THE MOST PUNK LYRICS EVER

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