Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

That $0.99 "phantom" flap over at Amazon last weekend...JEEZ!! That
was the wildest roller coaster ride I ∗ever∗ embarked upon.

Kind of reminded me of the story of a little old lady who went to Reno
or Vegas>>some gambling casino in Nevada and started pulling the
nickel one-armed bandits. Nickels turned into dollars, and dollars
into thousands and thousands of dollars after a marathon two-day
workout. However, she didn't know when to quit, and the next two days
her winnings disappeared back into those slot machines. A TV camera
crew caught up with her boarding a bus with her calloused hand wrapped
in bandages...and asked "was it all worth it?". She nodded, smiled,
and climbed on in.

Is the new Systems Theory a colection of all the mp3's offered on the
soundclick site? I spent a lot of time over there sampling the dozens
of offerings. The music and overall affect is similar to what we
create in the projects I'm involved with. I'm with a handful of
musicians that occasionally get together and make a lot of free form
spontanious creations as sort of the soundtrack to our main member,
who is a videographer/projectionist. A lot of it is a light show, and
a lot of it is a collection of home movies and still scenes of
interesting photographs. During our last show, we assembled a stack of
television sets piled into a large pyramid, and loaded up a bunch of
VCR's w/various tapes hooked up to them all. It was crazy, but we
achieved our goal of being totally misunderstood. In fact, our next
show we're thinking of paying people to come. We want to induce
rolling power blackouts next time we play. I bring along the
Mellotron, an Optigan, Farfisa, and a handful of toy chord organs and
other keyboards, and my bandmate brings in all these synths, mixers,
amps and speakers. Sometimes we can be very ambient and flowing and
sound like we have actually rehearsed something--other times it can
sound quite abrasive and far flung. Very therapeutic indeed (at least
for us). I sort of want to be more percussive next time (we actually
use the rocker switch rhythm tracks from the Optigan to achieve most
of this), but I'd like to convey more of a Organisation "Tone
Float"/Ibliss "Supernova"/Jade Warrior "(early Antilles label era)"
effect.

I recently got a MicroKorg Vocoder, and was wondering if anyone ran
any vintage/analog keyboards through it...and if so: are there any
mp3's available I can listen to?