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Soundhog - Spacelab (Kraftwerk Cover)

Ok, so a fairly straight Kraftwerk cover isn't the most interesting thing to do in 2013, I agree. However there is a good reason for it. Some friends of mine up in Scotland put on a night where people were playing 'werk tracks totally live, which was set up as a response to a similar event in Cardiff, which was set up as a 'consolation' to the 99.99999% of fans who didn't get tickets for the concerts at the Tate Modern earlier in 2013. Still with me? I'd hoped to be able to attend and play something, but it didn't happen. Therefore I decided to record a cover version to play out over the P.A. system instead. Perhaps as people were leaving... This is that cover version.

As the main ethos behind the performances was that they were to be done totally live, with no sequencing or backing tracks, all parts on this were recorded totally 'manually'. Given my ultra-rudimentary keyboard prodding skills, this was no mean feat. Anyway, I think it came out quite well. Those bored already will probably have stopped reading ages ago. Instruments used: Korg Monotribe, Korg Monotron Delay, Korg M500SP Micropreset, Moog Micromoog, Roland SH-2, Roland RS09 (filtered through SH-2), Commodore 64 running 'Software Automatic Mouth' speech synthesizer software. No external sequencer or computer based instrument control was employed, just the clock signal from the Monotribe into the SH-2 for the bassline trigger. Phew.