This video, via wouter van Veldhoven, explores four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno: looping, delay, reverse delay and saturation.
Four tape recorder techniques for minimal techno:
- a tape loop system (1 recorder, top right)
- long delay (2 recorders: top left and middle right)
- reverse delay (bottom middle)
- tape feedback/tape saturation on system 1, 2 and 3
The Tascam 8 track is not doing anything here – except being an expensive table for two other recorders,
van Veldhoven notes, “the video in the second part doesn’t really match the music, the camera fell so I couldn’t use the original. I wasn’t doing all that much except for letting the long tape delay saturate on itself for a very very long time.”
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Reminds me of some of the Plastikman stuff
So educational. I don’t know what I will do with all of these new “techniques”.
Tape is the new vinyl
Hmmmm, I think i’ll go and do some cut-n-paste of audio regions in my DAW to reproduce this. The future is good.
very nice and pure 🙂
Nice old school stuff – very experimental and hard to do… Tape loop tones and atmospheres can’t be replicated in a DAW, i know i’ve tried : / only tape can produce electromechanical tonal nuances and accidental noise fluctuations. One day on a computer but not yet – keep it up dude:)
You lost me after the brash sounds coming in at 3:00, bit harsh for a minimal track. But I admire what you are accomplishing here.
Yes, I absolutely agree! I opened the wrong channels and the patch became pretty extremely distorted, had to work my way out again 🙂
This guy is making music his own highly experimental way, and think that it’s great.
Great, great work! I want that kind of stuff live and more regularly!
Superb stuff…