I have been reminiscing. This is either a happy or depressing thing depending on your state of mind -- I started out happy...
The other day I dug out an old Icehouse CD -- Man of Colours for no good reason. In the mid '80s Australia's biggest musical export was INXS but for me Icehouse were always a cut above. Man of Colours was their biggest international success and represented a career high. I played the tape (tape cassette -- a kind of analogue removable memory cartridge that could store, oh say 20 odd songs) to death whilst boyracering around Essex in my black Gordini Turbo in 1987. 1987. 24 years ago. Oh god. Here comes the depression. Youth. Hell just being slim! Anyways, all the tracks on Man of Colours represent poignant and happy memories for me including this one. I thit was this album I was listening to when I encountered another black Gordini Turbo on 'my' patch and set out to prove that my car was indeed blacker than his until we got pulled by a plain clothes police man. It was stupid but I was young...
I couldn't get an acapella for the track so I I had to isolate the vocal from a full mix -- really not ideal. Plenty of delay and just about gets away with it. And the video, well, that's ripped from White Heat DVD. Because it's nearly 2 minutes shorter than the remix (they dropped a verse from the album version of the tack) so I had to create some additional footage to match the feel.
For those interested in such things, the VSTIs you liked/should avoid at all costs* are: Lennar Digital's Sylenth, Rob Pappen's Albino, GForce Minimonsta, Groove Agent 2 and Steinberg Monologue.
I must mention the Stilwell Rocket character compressor -- I really love that plug.
The idea of the remix was impending storm atmosphere -- dark and foreboding, then pressure building to almost unbearable til the storm breaks and gives a release.
