Elektron Musical Instruments

On May 1, 2004, at 11:51 PM, scutopus wrote:

> i recently saw tortoise play a wonderful live set, and went to
>  trts.com to check out their site. it's a good site, and it had a link
>  to elektron!! i investigated further, and found that they have a
>  sidstation and md in their studio in chicago (soma).


they also have a link to the Elektron site from their webpage :-)

BTW, this is sweet that you're into the same music I love!  I'm seeing 
Tortoise next week and I'm incredibly excited about it!  I missed them 
last time and they're one of my favorite bands.


>  does anyone know offhand of any tracks of theirs that have the sid or
>  md on them?


I don't know off hand. but there's some things to note. first, Soma is 
owned/run by John McEntire who is part of Tortoise as well as the 
drummer for the Sea and Cake (also a great band).  John went to school 
for electronic music and has studied synthesis exclusively, so it's not 
surprising that he has the great gear that he does at Soma!  I've 
looked around the Sea and Cake forum a bit and John's been known to 
answer questions about what gear was used.   In fact, he once gave a 
run down of all synths that were used on the Sea and Cake's "One 
Bedroom" and the SID was among them.  anyway, if you ask in the 
Tortoise website's forum, he may answer this question for you.

Joe

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