San Diego’s Gamma Gamma began in 2007 as a
side/solo recording project. A-Drive, a recovering recording engineer
who played synthesizers & Atari 2600 in the band Airport 81,
began collecting more and more video games and old computers in
the studio – dubbed “The Private Arcade”.
In between gigs, A-Drive studied some of the basics of BASIC
Programming & speech synthesis utilizing various home computers
of yesteryear, including the Commodore 64 and Texas Instruments
TI-99/4A. “I started using a lot of equipment not normally
played in Airport 81, so it was fresh to me”, reasoned A-Drive.
As a contrast, the music was far from preprogrammed, using real
drums, analog synths, and archaic sequencers.
Much of the songs for “I Want Your Baud” was recorded
with drums first, then things were created and added over the
top. Among A-Drive’s signature instruments on the album
are an original Minimoog, and a very rare Synare 2 percussion
synthesizer/sequencer from 1978. “That Synare is all over
the songs ’I Want Your Baud’,’Handheld Unit’,
and ‘Zygonauts Approaching’. It’s a tempermental
thing that seems to only work in the studio & only if you
are nice to it”.
Drummer extraordinaire Hexagon Sean (also of Airport 81 fame)
supplies the drums on a number of tracks. Plans for additional
recordings and touring are on the horizon. Stay tuned.
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