It’s a Groovy 80s
Oli Bell from Groove Criminals landed his time machine in a shop full of synths and old drum machines, so got his recorder out…
“It’s all gone 80s this month so rather than do the whole XOX thing (again) we thought we’d drag out some of the less well known 80s drum machines we’ve got in the bunker. None of the machines stand up to today’s tech in terms of editing the voices or library of sounds but all have that early 16-bit sampled punchiness to them.
“To further turn back the clock we also ran each pattern through one of our 80s FX units for some vintage gated reverb and digital delay action. We’ve thrown in a chunk of single hits as well, so you don’t have to wrestle with 80s tiny LCD screen drum programming – you’re welcome.
“Synth-wise we thought we would concentrate on the beast that is Yamaha FM synthesis using our rack-mount TX81Z module. This covers all the usual shimmery pianos and digital basses. Just to add that extra gooey coating of 80s goodness we ran this through the Boss rack-mount super chorus for more classic processing.”