"I actually met [bassist] Peter Hook when I was 15 and working in a garage. The whole point of inspiration is that you take something as a starting point, and then make it your own. If you listen to any Kraftwerk album from the '70s, it's exactly the same — no bass. I tend to play my Korg MS20 live. I've sworn by Waves plug-ins for years and I absolutely love the sound of them. Among them is producer and programmer Roger Lyons. Now I've just got to recut the door to fit! To be fair, it was only available on 12″, so they couldn’t play it on the radio and it wouldn’t have made sense on the radio, where you could only play a three-minute fragment. New Order released their first new album in a decade in 2015 – reason to celebrate indeed. J Balvin and Ozuna's China, Jason Derülo and David Guetta feat. I've been using MOTU hardware and Digital Performer since they came out. I said to Steve one day, ‘I’m sure something from those graves is leaking through into the water pipes…’ I remember just being turned on by the latest technology that was becoming available. It's beautiful, and at the time, I was gobsmacked. In addition to the DR16 parts, Hooky played live bass, Bernard sang, and Stephen and Phil both played keyboards. I use it on whatever it takes my fancy. Is your network connection unstable or browser outdated? I was in a club in Berlin a few years ago where they were playing some really good, modern house music, then ‘Blue Monday’ came on and it just sounded great – even in a contemporary context, and up against modern production. Please download one of our supported browsers. Blue Monday 1988 by John Potoker, Quincy Jones (1988) Electronic / Dance. He'd just bounced the 24 analogue tracks onto his 48-tracker so that he could put his bits on the remaining 24 tracks, so I got a copy of that.". Nicki Minaj and Willy William's Goodbye. I agree with "Buzz-Duh" this needs to be fixed. It was great because I could give them instant feedback, so for example, if I asked for a particular bit on its own without effects, they could provide that, no problem. And its timing is absolutely perfect. "Steve is a big fan of the TD8, but he uses a real bass drum with a trigger on it to get the feel and air on stage, and a real snare with a pad on it for a similar reason. The main working area in Roger Lyons's studio, which is based around an Apple Mac computer and a Mackie Control fader surface.Photo: Richard EcclestoneTo cope with his varied production work, including the preparation for New Order's live shows and Ian Brown's forthcoming album, Roger has built his own private studio in Derbyshire. Kickstart your next project with samples from SAKIMA - Blue Monday Vocal Sample Pack Vol. There were a few people playing music like that in clubs in New York and London, but it was played on real instruments. It was released as a 12-inch single on 7 March 1983 through Factory Records and later as a 7-inch single through Tonpress in Poland in 1985. New Order's long-term plan was to revitalise their ever-growing back catalogue of songs so that they could be played with the current live rig and personnel. For example, I was quite aware of Bernard's guitar sound from being in rehearsals. "I know that Dian's got her hands full balancing all the actual live bits so I wanted my bit to be right," explains Roger. Roger explains how he approached the task. Roger's association with the band began long before his involvement in the music industry. At the time I was in Lionrock with Justin Robertson [see the SOS interview with Lionrock in June 1999, which can be read on-line at www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun99/articles/lionrock.htm ], and we were supporting New Order on a few live dates, so I was already friendly with their managers, Andy Robinson and Rebecca Boulton. Roger was entrusted with the task of gathering material from the multitracks, and then preparing it so it would sympathetically fit together with the live performances. Please sign in or sign up. Rob [Gretton, New Order manager] thought it was witchcraft. The Sarm Orchestra and Rev. The band thus had a choice as to what parts they wished to play live. The Oberheim DMX drum machine is 12-bit so the sounds weren't very chunky. In the end I had it all running from two DR16s and one of those was just a backup with the same stuff on it. I've even used it with nothing going through it so it's feeding back on itself! Two Roland XV5080s loaded with Vintage soundcards were hooked up to Phil's keyboard so that, according to Roger, he could play emulations of ARP Solinas and Logan String Machines. It isn't a particularly musical EQ but it's good for cutting out certain frequencies and making sonic gaps. love u all <3, The most beautiful sound ive heard in a while. Start with a 14-day free trial, then just $7.99/month. New Order originally released Blue Monday written by Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris and Peter Hook and New Order released it on the single Blue Monday in 1983. So when it hit 500,000, Tony made up a special Factory Records award, this big cogwheel that was almost like a hammer and sickle. Please sign in or sign up. There was electronic music, but not much electronic dance music. "Blue Monday" by New Order sampled Kraftwerk's "Uranium". The band thus had a … new to Splice? "Most people have got wise to these sort of problems now and they do mix stems straight out of Pro Tools or whatever sequencer they are using, and for the Get Ready album material I was working on the live stems as it was being mixed. "The bass line was a Moog Source sequenced with a Powertran home-made sequencer that Bernard had built himself. In 2012, we asked the Bernard Sumner and since-departed bassist Peter Hook how they wrote the classic track, clearing up a few myths along the way…What do you recall of the writing of ‘Blue Monday’? The microphone you get with it is rubbish, but I plug a Shure SM58 or Electrovoice ND767 in the back of it, and get it as close to my mouth as possible. For anything like that I would do a rough mix for the band, ask if they liked it and, if so, I'd then go away and process it overnight, and come back with the result the next day. I've had a lot of drum machines over the years, but the Korg ER1 Electribe drum machine is probably my favourite. There wasn’t anything that was as pure and electronic. The contents of this article are subject to worldwide copyright protection and reproduction in whole or part, whether mechanical or electronic, is expressly forbidden without the prior written consent of the Publishers. They didn't ask me to do any recording work with them because their manager, Andy, has done a lot of programming on New Order's stuff in the past so it makes sense for them to use him, but I was the natural choice to sort out the live stuff because I had the equipment and I'm passionate about the band.". Thanx a lot for the info in advance! I sometimes have it going through the CLM Expounder, which is a dynamic EQ with dynamic filters, and nothing else sounds like that either, so together with the feedback of the Space Echo I can get some fantastic effects. The new studio is also used extensively for Roger's mastering projects, computer consultancy, beta testing, and for his own personal recording work. We were very lucky to write ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ as Joy Division, which was a staple Manchester record, and then ‘Blue Monday’ with New Order. Peter Hook: I thought the songs we wrote around it were better. You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud, i made a sample pack full of me singing and playing the piano that i started to make music with when i was a kid. It all comes together like clockwork. One of his latest enthusiasms is the Mackie Control fader surface. Obviously the sound had gone from his Moog Source's memory a long time ago when the battery ran out, so that part I took off the multitrack. And I ended up replicating some of it in my studio.". And if I wanted to change something, I could do a minimal tweak and save it out again. Whatever software you pull up on the computer, the control surface automatically knows what it is and says, 'Hello, welcome to Digital Performer,' or whatever is appropriate. "It's taken a lot of messing about in here to get the sound right for monitoring, which is why I have acoustic tiles up against the back wall, and why I've got a fibreglass-filled panel at the other end to stop the sound bouncing back. Tony ended up having those wonderful brass awards cut for us to celebrate 500,000 sales, when what we were actually celebrating was a loss of £50,000. PH: No, it’s absolutely true. It was also covered by The Deletist, Holly Lapsley, Jonathan Davis and the Simply Fucking Amazings, Déjà vu [US] and other artists. "I knew that just getting started could be problematic because I'd done a similar thing for FC Kahuna, and they had very little of their stuff saved out, and in that case we had to contact all the different studios and programmers, who had a few audio tracks lying about, before it could be pieced together and edited. I’ve still got it, actually. We programmed everything in step-time using binary code digital readouts. I can't afford the 50 grand's worth of mics that a big studio has, and I can't afford 120 grand to get a room sounding perfect, but I can go into a commercial studio for a day and do some recording then bring it back to my computer, control surface and my favourite toys, and then I'm getting the best of both worlds.". You may login with either your assigned username or your e-mail address. It was pre-computers, pre-MIDI, and I’d built this sequencer from an electronics kit. Cubase is not good for that sort of thing, but DP is fantastic and I prepare all my backing tracks like that. When the correct XV5080 patch was selected it automatically went through the gate, and whenever the Drawmer received a pulse from the DR16 it opened. Attaching legacy Allen & Heath console to laptop / ... Why I am Boycotting Plugin Alliance Marketing. That could only happen at Factory! "I was also using quite precise EQ to make gaps for the live instruments, although 'Blue Monday' is not a very good example of one that needed much in the way of EQ because it's built around the vocal, and there is no live guitar. And it kept coming back into the charts. New Order released their first new album in a decade in 2015 – reason to celebrate indeed. I could do the same thing with the Waves plug-ins, but I love the tactile, hands-on thing. It is sampled by Rihanna. We got one with each band, fantastic! It comes on in a club and it sounds so powerful, like standing next to a ship’s engine. PH: It’s a great compliment to be told that you’re one of the inspirations for dance music, but the truth is that we were borrowing from Kraftwerk. I've got 24 ins and outs which all my outboard and synths are patched into all the time. We actually never got any radio play off Blue Monday; it was a hit in spite of the radio. Need help? Many of the older songs Roger was recreating for the tour required pitch and tempo changes to make them more playable. The delays are great and the flanger is phenomenal.