[LAU] First installment of "FLOSS your music": Ken Restivo

[david]

Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 11:40:12AM +0000, lists at quirq.ukfsn.org wrote:
>> On 10/2/2011, "Roberto Suarez Soto" <talkingxouba at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 	http://xouba.net/post/10928797789/floss-your-music-ken-restivo
>>>
>> Excellent read, although I could quite happily have read twice, three or
>> even four times the amount! I always like to read in-depth about
>> fascinating topics :-)
>>
>> Two points of pedantry: I think the list of shredders should include
>> Rhodes not Roads (I'm assuming it's Randy that's referred to) and
>> Octave's The Cat was a very close knock-off of the ARP Odyssey, not a
>> Moog -- to the degree that they were sued by ARP apparently.
>>
>> Keep up the good work.
> 
> Wow, good point. Yes it was a clone of an ARP Odyssey.
> 
> It had the same kind of sliders and layout of an ARP. And an absurd pitchbend that was basically an ordinarly potentiometer fader.
> 
> As for what it sounded like, here it is, circa 1984, fed through a horrific array of distortion-producing *things*:
> 
> http://storage.restivo.org/music/Hugh_Magma/metalalloy34.ogg
> 
> Prog-rock meets metal meets psychedelia meets I'm not sure exactly what. Hey, I was 18.

You were an inventive 18-year-old!

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David
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