I thought I'd do another one of these since the last one got such a good response. What was the song or artist that got you interested in electronic music in the first place?
I'm still surprised with how vividly I remember mine. I was 8 years old and my family was visiting my aunt and uncle in the midwest. It was a fall day and my cousins and I were playing on their trampoline in the back yard. We had a radio playing some Top 40 type countdown show and this was the week that Gary Numan's "Cars" first charted in the US. When I first heard those Polymoog strings and the white noise clap sounds I froze and asked my cousins what instrument made that sound. They didn't know, and I wouldn't know until a few years later, all I knew is that whatever made those sounds was something I wanted to hear more of.
Cut to almost 30 years later and now I make my living making electronic music. I often wonder how differently my life might have turned out if we hadn't had the radio turned on that day.
" in 1975, readily accessible sampling technology was still years away from being available to musicians, and yet the song featured an incredibly lush, undoubtedly unnatural vocal pad throughout. Unbelievably, they achieved this feat by recording vocals of each note to tape loops, and sending each tape loop to its own channel on the mixer. With each band member assigned to a handful of faders, the band then 'played' the part by raising and lowering different channels to create the progression you hear on the record. It's a remarkable achievement, and years later when "proper" sampling hit the scene, many other bands began sampling their own voices to create cool, new sounds that were at once organic 
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, try pitch correcting it and smoothing out any tonal inconsistencies. This'll help get us towards that synthy timbre we're after.
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