Flood Talking About Making Enjoy The Silence (DM)

[Franc]

Flood about making Enjoy the Silence - YouTube

Some good ideas about creating songs, DM, Martin Gore. Funny. Happy & sad in songs. You have to listen closely. The band wants to have a happy dance tune versus Martin's more depressing take. Funny jokes about Martin.

Great stuff.



Whoops - long version here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...2HM44aAJo&NR=1

You can also see that a lot of people were involved in creating these songs.

[Franc]

Anyone know what big modular they brought to the studio in Denmark?

[dubnspace]

Originally Posted by Franc

Anyone know what big modular they brought to the studio in Denmark?

Floods Moog Modular iirc

[Don Solaris]

Fantastic!

[Mr. Varaldo]

Thank you for posting this, one of the key songs of my youth Flood is a funny guy

I was hoping he'd say what they used for the amazing choir samples, but unfortunately he didn't mention it. I always thought an Emulator, but I'm very probably wrong.

[Orgath]

Originally Posted by dubnspace

Floods Moog Modular iirc

No, it's was not. It's a Roland System 700 behind this wonderful bassline in "Enjoy the Silence". I was there at the presentation and I asked Flood in person about it. (Also got his autograph )

[minime123]

thanks

[Mr. Varaldo]

Originally Posted by Orgath

No, it's was not. It's a Roland System 700 behind this wonderful bassline in "Enjoy the Silence". I was there at the presentation and I asked Flood in person about it. (Also got his autograph )

Thank you!

Did you ask him about the choir samples by any chance?

[cramseur]

This was great. I wish this type of thing happened more.

[Acid Mitch]

I LOL'd at the impersonation of Martin saying "but it's not my kind of disco"

[Brian!]

thank you for this

[Heathfinnie]

Originally Posted by Mr. Varaldo

Thank you!

Did you ask him about the choir samples by any chance?

I always thought those were samples from the EMax or EIII...

[Franc]

Originally Posted by Acid Mitch

I LOL'd at the impersonation of Martin saying "but it's not my kind of disco"

Really funny. I also liked when Flood asks him to play the melody on guitar and Martin says no because they are a synth band.

The voice he does for Martin is hilarious.

I never knew the bassline was a Roland 700. The only other person I knew using one of those is Richard Barbieri in Japan. Anyone know if the synth pulse basslines that Moroder did with Japan were done by Moroder's crew (Faltmeyer) using the 700 or a Moog? I think it was The Quiet Life and Gentleman Take Polaroids.

[mikael488]

Richard Barbieri (and the Canadian synth band Rational Youth) used the Roland 700 Laboratory system, which is the compact version of the big system 700. Richard bought it in 1977 (his first synth) but he didn't record with it until Japan's second album.

Roland 700 Lab system:
Gear

Yes, the 16th note bass sequence on Japan's Life In Tokyo was done by one of Moroder's programmers/assistants--either Faltermeyer or Greg Mathieson-- using a Moog modular. The bassline was played manually using delay repeats to get the 16th note effect. Barbieri did the solina string parts and the synthy effects towards the end of the song.

Moroder didn't have anything to do with the albums "Quiet Life" and "Gentlemen" though. Those were recorded in the UK by the members
of Japan.

The pulse bass lines on songs like Quiet Life, European son, Methods of Dance etc. were done with an Oberhem mini-sequencer driving the Roland 700 lab system.

[gruvsyco]

Flood is brilliant. I like this video where he basically says he uses it all, he just has a preference for certain things.

[mikael488]

Harold Faltermeyer was the owner of the heavily expanded Roland system 700 seen in this photo with Moroder (circa 1979-80):



This giant Roland modular was used on Moroder's solo album "E=MC2" (1979) as well as the soundtracks to "American Giigolo" (incl. the hit Call Me) and "Foxes" (1980).
Moreover, Faltermeyer used it on most of his own scores back in the '80s such as "Thief of Hearts", "Beverly hills cop", "Top Gun", "Running Man" and "Tango & Cash". It was also used on Pet Shop Boys' album "Behaviour" (1990) which was produced by Faltermeyer.

[gruvsyco]

Was "surfing" Flood videos on youtube and stumbled across what looks like a sizable chunk of Floods session at the Roundhouse covering Nitzer Ebb and DMs Personal Jesus. This poster has some performance footage from Short Circuit as well