Baby Ford anyone?

Looking through my old records and CDs...

Baby Ford "Chickki chicki ahh ahh" was my first CD ever! I'm 37. I bought it because of Oochy Koochy... I owned the record before. Oochy Koochy: The special thing about this was the pumping bass which wasn't previously heard before. The 12" has a loudspeaker warning. Funny. Today I must say it's a bit boring, typical Acid House era stuff.

Oh I loved "Children of the Revolution" and "Beach Bump" so much. Baby Ford was my first big love, my next one was LFO, you know the typical route.

Hey, 1988. Was that kind of music already mixed with computers? I don't think so?! Did they generate patterns basically with tr-808/909 and mix it together with tapes? Any insight?

Oochy Koochy record cover, I loved it:

  On 1/12/2010 at 8:53 PM, Wurstwasser said:

Hey, 1988. Was that kind of music already mixed with computers? I don't think so?!

It were all Atari STs back in them there days dear boy....

baby ford is fucking sick. all of it. been rinsing bford 9 lately.

that is all.

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I found this track recently and I'm loving it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFh3kakurqo

The baseline is the same as the organ in this track which is my favorite Baby Ford track:

I'm also liking some of his new minimal stuff. Good guy!

  On 1/12/2010 at 11:36 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 1/12/2010 at 8:53 PM, Wurstwasser said:

Hey, 1988. Was that kind of music already mixed with computers? I don't think so?!

It were all Atari STs back in them there days dear boy....

From a UK perspective, the ST was still a fairly exotic item to have in the home studio in 1988, I think.. Cubase wasn't out until 90 or so. If you did have one, it would be running this:

..but many acid/techno/house producers just synced up their Roland boxes and went from there. The usual route in those days would be to book out a professional studio to produce tracks, taking along what equipment the musicians had (303, 808, 909, 101, 202, 106, Pro-1, DX100) and using it alongside the more exotic equipment the studios had that no-one could afford, such as the (then) new Roland D50 or Korg M1 keyboards, 16-track tape, Akai S900/1000 or Space Echo and other quality outboard. Sampling was still a very expensive thing to get into - if you were plush you had one of these (£2000):

..but if you were on a budget, one of these might have to make do:

Basically, state of the art independent dance music production in 1988 probably looked quite like this (Juan Atkins - 1988 Music Tech Interview):

I luh moi some dat baybay fode

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