Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

There was a recent mention of the new Tim Christensen album here.
All songs except one were laced in M400.
Also, I couldn't resist mentioning our own band Etceteras new album
as another 'tron-album.

But the fact is that a lot of music using both real and sampled
'tron comes out all the time here. Mellotron sound seems to be
booming in Copenhagen these days. It shows up in title tunes to TV
programs, and on recordings with several popular bands. In most cases
they are used as backing for melodic music, and I think that is only
natural. I suppose the vintage sound modules are also responsible for
some of the sounds. One song with singer Marie Frank has a disgusting
pitch bend that takes a tron down 5 semitones. Plenty to show that they
were definitely not using the real thing. But then singer and songwriter
Pernille Rosendahl and her band (name escapes me right now) use the
real thing. Then there's 'tron in the title music to one of the local
pop star contest programs, and Tim Christensen made the very popular
title song to another very popular soap.

I'll get back with more like this later.....

Frank Carvalho
M400 #160