A radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.
— Malcolm Gladwell — David and Goliath
This was 1991. We were very young, and we had no particular expectations about what making electronic music on an Atari ST might lead to. We weren't challenging anything deliberately — we were just making what we thought we should make, with the tools we had, because it excited us.
Seeing the music video on MTV Europe's Party Zone was a surprise. A genuine one. Something made in a bedroom with a sampler and a drum computer resonated with an audience far beyond anything we had imagined. That doesn't happen because of strategy. It happens because the work is honest.
The setup was an Atari ST with Yamaha TX16W and Akai S-1000 samplers, and the Casio CZ-1000 synthesizer. No guitar. No live band. Just sequences, samples, and a strong belief that this was music.
Tools
- Atari ST
- Yamaha TX16W
- Akai S-1000
- Casio CZ-1000