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From: John Smith <synthdrummer@...>
Date: 2006-07-31

ah, warm leatherette ... could never get enough of the normal

good luck jesper on your release ... i would love to hear it. and being in bands with one's spouse or significant other is always trying ... i could never be in a band with my wife ... i almost slit her throat when we wallpapered our kitchen together.

syndrum fan

jesper@... wrote:
Being a moderator I guess I can allow some trailing off-topic as long as we
stay vintage and more or less analogue... ;)

john:
> first vinyl release? congratulations, that is very impressive. is this a
> solo project or do you have bandmates?

I have in fact two bands. one is a solo project and that's the one soon
listenable on a 7", 33 rpm vinyl. No Simmons gear on it but pure analogue
synths from start to end. Drum section played by Pro-One, MS-10, EDP Wasp
and the likes...
My other band is a duo and the plan is to release an EP there soon too. To
bad the other half is my wife and that we have two small kids taking their
time (one of them biting my big toe as we speak (write)).
The first is electro and minimal electronics in the vein of Telex and the
Normal while the other is folk-synthpop-Tolkien-electronics. ;)

> please tell me a little more about the pearl syncussion items ... i know
> that prince's drummer used them but i have never been fortunate enough to
> actually play or see one up close ... do you have the brain as well?

I certainly do. :) I even own the cool blue bad to carry the brain in (with
logo on front) and original stands for both brain and pads. The syncussion
is one of the coolest synth drum brains out there with weird combined
waveforms and with a little tricks done you can even play melodies by using
the pedal input for CV-signals. It certainly can cut a mix and it sure can
shake those bass membranes in the speakers. Useful little box!

> i find myself becoming a electro-collector, concentrating on simmons stuff
> ... but damn, i want a syndrum setup like yours now!

I'm trying not just to collect but you use. So I sell what I don't "need".
Anyone fancy a Tama TS-305 or czechoslovakian SEAK ADM-5? ;)

electronically yours, jesper
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