Production Advice

This is an enjoyable short film about the making of Amon Tobin’s excellent Foley Room – a great album which you may already know about. If not, I strongly recommend it.

I talk a lot about classic albums, recording live instruments and ¨real, natural sound¨ on Production Advice, mainly because in this time of virtual instruments and laptop recording studios I think it’s becoming something of a lost art that needs highlighting.

BUT I have always had a passion for electronic and dance music – Jean Michel Jarre’s ‘Oxygene’ was the second tape ever played in my Sanyo personal cassette player (I couldn’t afford a Walkman !) and it would be hard to overstate the importance of Orbital in my music collection – to pick just two examples.

(What was the first tape ever played in my Walkman ? It’s too embarrassing to reveal in public, but ask me on Twitter and I’ll DM you the answer :-p )

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I tried to think of something clever and interesting to say about this performance, but all I could manage was

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim Exile is touring with Imogen Heap, and is clearly unspeakably talented. In case you were wondering, this is how he does it:

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Two “how-to” posts in a row ? Ah well… everyone is loving this on Twitter, so I thought I’d post it here. Enjoy !

(From the Production Advice Tumblr blog)