After last night’s recording session I became obsessed with playing sitar.I have tried a large variety of string instruments from cellos to 12 string acoustics and from banjos to bloody balalaicas. But sitars I haven’t layed my hands on yet, dayammn! I should get one from e-bay, I guess. Those babies rrrr hott!
So yesterday we once again experimented with old synths, digging out weird sounds. We were really hyped once we found a sound titled "Cryton", but it was a biiiig disappointment, no hotness was found there. But a feeling of great expectations soon arrived trumpeting the joy of life as we found the sitar sound. So we cranked the amps up and tried to to emulate the vibes from Alppila’s wicked Bollywood type-o-samples on his MPC. Nothing too original here I guess to begin with, but try to imagine this mixed with
- 1.5 litres of new reggae accapellas about sensi
- a large bowl of unwashed and dirty grimey subsynths
- 3 spoonfuls of Justin Timberlake kinda synth arpeggios
- 2 teaspoons of live electric bass
- Finely chopped themes from classic Indie rock songs
- 3 medium pieces of strongly echoed ItaloWestern-like guitars
- Mad echoes and dub delays to your taste
And you will once again get the point of being a Kriton. It is an organization of madness. But it’s all good, aint’t it?
And to make this blog accurate, Jzzi could point out the make and the model of the synth we used. Fi dem nerds out dere.
/ہندوستانی
10 comments:
glad that the cs2x is coming into use for the factory sounds, i always end up putting it thru fuckloads of effects cause i get bored (and maybe a lil stoned aaaiiiiieeee).
"a world without reverb" is no world for me.
NAGA-Marque
glad that the cs2x is coming into use for the factory sounds, i always end up putting it thru fuckloads of effects cause i get bored (and maybe a lil stoned aaaiiiiieeee).
"a world without reverb" is no world for me.
NAGA-Marque
Jep, that's the machine (http://www.planet-groove.com/yamaha/cs2x.html)
We love preset sounds. Although we mutilate them with insane effects when we feel like it. And in this case we played the cs2x as a duo. Jzzi kept cranking the pitch bend and I kept hitting they keys. A close imitation of Ravi Shankar on acid.
I do buy f**kloads of stuff from Ebay all the time just for fun but how come I never tought about getting a proper Sitar?
I'd better start by getting this for our musical amusement....
methinks that sitars are easier to play on a keyboard than the real thing
I must keep coming back to this topic, I want to tell you about the time when Pink Floyd's Delicate sound of thunder came out and I saw the video of Dave Gilmour playing the pedal steel on "one of these days". I was so blown out that i went my trusty guitar shop and got a 2nd hand one, only to play it once before it stood there collecting dust. I sold it a year later.
Impulse buying leads to pain.
ﻄﻇ ﻚﻛﻨ ﻦﻖﻆﻝﻏﻟﻯ "Kriton" ﻵ ﻧﻩﻟﻏﻆ ﻶﻺﻩﻚ ﻛ ﻨ
Yeah, you've got it buddy!
While my sitar gently weeps.
Was that song from the classic film "Johnny Sitar"? Performed by the Sitar Slingers?
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