Growing up in the snow laden foothills of Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood indoors playing with electronics and stereo equipment. I finally got my hands on a real synthesizer when I was fifteen years old. Fascinated with it, I raced home everyday after school to mess around with making music on it. This is the oldest surviving recording I made as a kid - and the first recording I ever made with a synthesizer (my earlier efforts were all made with a microphone and odds and ends around the house)...
«« click to show details Growing up in the snow laden foothills of Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood indoors playing with electronics and stereo equipment. I finally got my hands on a real synthesizer when I was fifteen years old. Fascinated with it, I raced home everyday after school to mess around with making music on it. This is the oldest surviving recording I made as a kid - and the first recording I ever made with a synthesizer (my earlier efforts were all made with a microphone and odds and ends around the house). Originally recorded on cassette tape.
Track List:1 | Voices | 2:00 | 2 | Nite Life | 1:29 | 3 | Progress | 1:26 | 4 | Funky Wrap | 4:47 | 5 | Sequential Circuits | 3:07 | 6 | Concussion | 1:50 | 7 | Im Sorry | 2:19 | 8 | Pep Song | 1:14 | 9 | Funky Bass | 1:36 | 10 | Primitive | 1:30 | 11 | Escape | 1:02 | 12 | Snare Guns | 0:17 | 13 | Concave | 5:14 | 14 | Strange Beats | 4:24 | 15 | Time Travel (part 1) | 2:05 | 16 | Time Travel (part 2) | 1:51 | 17 | Acak Vilp | 3:07 | 18 | Warp Elise | 0:52 | 19 | Saloote | 1:18 | 20 | Olympiad | 2:10 | 21 | Jump | 1:08 | 22 | Smoke On The Water | 1:19 | 23 | Musical Instruments | 1:50 | 24 | Rock It | 2:28 | 25 | Tubular Bells Intro | 0:52 | 26 | Tubular Bells | 2:55 |
Notes: I saved up my money while in Junior High School, by mowing lawns and buying and selling odds and ends, to buy my first real synthesizer - the Yamaha DX27 FM synthesizer. I didn't have a drum machine or sequencer, and this keyboard could only produce one sound at a time. So my solution was simple. I used 2 cassette decks, one was actually a walkman, and a homemade transistor mixing console that I had build. I would record a sound on the cassette, then play it back on the walkman, adding additional playing on every pass to get a multi instrumental sound. It sounds hideous and this recording is included in my discography more for historical purposes than anything. But there is also something interesting, charming and creative in these tracks. I didn't know anything about music really, and I lived in a location in Colorado that was behind the times, it seems. So I was on my own. This was a complete trial and error experiment that I feel lucky to have documented.
Recording Info: Recorded in in my bedroom while I was in school (in my parents house) using a cassette recorder and Yamaha DX-27 FM synthesizer - even the drums on most of it were made individually on the Yamaha DX-27 and played independently.
Musician Credits: All instruments played, composed, recorded and engineered by Supaflower
Genre: Experimental Electronic
Catalog Number: Opus 001
Limited Edition Release from the early years collection and may even be originally recorded on a cassette or low fidelity - it is not available for the public to listen to at this time. We'll call it out-of-print. These are rare tracks. If you are a fan or just curious, here's a hint: there is a password hidden on this site that can help you get backstage to hear it. You can unlock these tracks if you go backstage and enter the password, then return here. is this a game? Hmmm... It might be. Like searching through old records at a record store - looking for hidden gems and rare releases.
Primitive (cassette)
Supaflower
1 | Voices | 2:00 | 2 | Nite Life | 1:29 | 3 | Progress | 1:26 | 4 | Funky Wrap | 4:47 | 5 | Sequential Circuits | 3:07 | 6 | Concussion | 1:50 | 7 | Im Sorry | 2:19 | 8 | Pep Song | 1:14 | 9 | Funky Bass | 1:36 | 10 | Primitive | 1:30 | 11 | Escape | 1:02 | 12 | Snare Guns | 0:17 | 13 | Concave | 5:14 | 14 | Strange Beats | 4:24 | 15 | Time Travel (part 1) | 2:05 | 16 | Time Travel (part 2) | 1:51 | 17 | Acak Vilp | 3:07 | 18 | Warp Elise | 0:52 | 19 | Saloote | 1:18 | 20 | Olympiad | 2:10 | 21 | Jump | 1:08 | 22 | Smoke On The Water | 1:19 | 23 | Musical Instruments | 1:50 | 24 | Rock It | 2:28 | 25 | Tubular Bells Intro | 0:52 | 26 | Tubular Bells | 2:55 |
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Growing up in the snow laden foothills of Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood indoors playing with electronics and stereo equipment. I finally got my hands on a real synthesizer when I was fifteen years old...
«« click to show details Growing up in the snow laden foothills of Colorado, I spent a lot of my childhood indoors playing with electronics and stereo equipment. I finally got my hands on a real synthesizer when I was fifteen years old. Fascinated with it, I raced home everyday after school to mess around with making music on it. This is the oldest surviving recording I made as a kid - and the first recording I ever made with a synthesizer (my earlier efforts were all made with a microphone and odds and ends around the house). Originally recorded on cassette tape.
Track List:1 | Voices | 2:00 | 2 | Nite Life | 1:29 | 3 | Progress | 1:26 | 4 | Funky Wrap | 4:47 | 5 | Sequential Circuits | 3:07 | 6 | Concussion | 1:50 | 7 | Im Sorry | 2:19 | 8 | Pep Song | 1:14 | 9 | Funky Bass | 1:36 | 10 | Primitive | 1:30 | 11 | Escape | 1:02 | 12 | Snare Guns | 0:17 | 13 | Concave | 5:14 | 14 | Strange Beats | 4:24 | 15 | Time Travel (part 1) | 2:05 | 16 | Time Travel (part 2) | 1:51 | 17 | Acak Vilp | 3:07 | 18 | Warp Elise | 0:52 | 19 | Saloote | 1:18 | 20 | Olympiad | 2:10 | 21 | Jump | 1:08 | 22 | Smoke On The Water | 1:19 | 23 | Musical Instruments | 1:50 | 24 | Rock It | 2:28 | 25 | Tubular Bells Intro | 0:52 | 26 | Tubular Bells | 2:55 |
Notes: I saved up my money while in Junior High School, by mowing lawns and buying and selling odds and ends, to buy my first real synthesizer - the Yamaha DX27 FM synthesizer. I didn't have a drum machine or sequencer, and this keyboard could only produce one sound at a time. So my solution was simple. I used 2 cassette decks, one was actually a walkman, and a homemade transistor mixing console that I had build. I would record a sound on the cassette, then play it back on the walkman, adding additional playing on every pass to get a multi instrumental sound. It sounds hideous and this recording is included in my discography more for historical purposes than anything. But there is also something interesting, charming and creative in these tracks. I didn't know anything about music really, and I lived in a location in Colorado that was behind the times, it seems. So I was on my own. This was a complete trial and error experiment that I feel lucky to have documented.
Recording Info: Recorded in in my bedroom while I was in school (in my parents house) using a cassette recorder and Yamaha DX-27 FM synthesizer - even the drums on most of it were made individually on the Yamaha DX-27 and played independently.
Musician Credits: All instruments played, composed, recorded and engineered by Supaflower
Genre: Experimental Electronic
Catalog Number: Opus 001
Limited Edition Release from the early years collection and may even be originally recorded on a cassette or low fidelity - it is not available for the public to listen to at this time. We'll call it out-of-print. These are rare tracks. If you are a fan or just curious, here's a hint: there is a password hidden on this site that can help you get backstage to hear it. You can unlock these tracks if you go backstage and enter the password, then return here. is this a game? Hmmm... It might be. Like searching through old records at a record store - looking for hidden gems and rare releases.
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