Plastic Parc Studio

The earliest incarnation of the home studio setup saw a plethora of material churned out in a relatively short period. Mainly composed on sequencers and computers, much of it was sketchy. Few recordings went past demo-stage and there were many outlines of potential stuff retained in software. Floppy discs were still in abundance and Zip drives were making an appearance. Heady days.
Some musicians were producing high-quality midi-files of drum patterns for creators of dance music. Seems strange now, in a world of audio samples with computers and audio interfaces saturating the home-studio market. But computers don’t have the adequate electronic components to handle audio adequately. All the best with your partial digital setups. Here’s the essence of all-things midi below…..

[1995]

Computer software is excellent for editing and for sequencing.

I would still recommend a beautiful mixing-desk and whatever quality outboard you can afford. A decent microphone is worth 20 audio interfaces!

There’s a link elsewhere on this site to one of the best mixing-desk sellers in the UK (the man with the Blue Dog).

Note: Apologies……he’s retired!

Soon a number of interesting characters starting dropping in, from those just keen to see how midi & audio interacted to those who wanted to contribute something, maybe a guitar-part or just advice. That’s how collaboration begins. It all added to an ever-diverse tapestry of talent and creativity. Here was an opportunity to embrace new technology and see where it led.

Out of this chaotic scenario came Snow White Likes Curry. Their guitarist, Bobby Korpse, had taken a delight in adding weird and wonderful guitar parts to the most mundane and humdrum midi arrangements. A similar situation arose with Billy Beau-Lux (yep!), who was the guitarist with The Sirens of Senegal - you should hear how he destroys ‘Montevideo Blues,’ a full-on South American blitz in the manner of Santana. It was hilarious.

Anyhow, Snow White Likes Curry [1996-98] were to embark on an all-out assault on proto-midi punk, a bizarre mix of technologically amateur madness. This became known as the “Leper & Pirates” project.