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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.
Releases by GAMMA
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I Want Your Baud
So fresh, yet
so classic! This album is for old schoolers and the next
generation alike - come check out what these San Diegons
have to offer!
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Track
Listing
01 - Everything Looks
Blocky
02 - Even Sides Saves Lives (mp3)
03 - I Want Your Baud
04 - Zygonauts Approaching
05 - Spacecalator
06 - Handheld Unit
07 - Solid State Defender
08 - Casino Intelligence
09 - March of the Microchips
10 - Joystick Partners
11 - Your Space Station or Mine
12 - Home Computer |
