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Drum Programming : Statik Linked to this thread: http://prince.org/msg/7/383209
I remembered an interview of Statik in the magazine called "Keyboards", it was late 1994, at that time Prince had that huge cover on US "Guitar World" magazine, JD800 was available on retail, a couple of Michael B. and Sonny T. AKAI S1000 CD were floating around...
Also, "Space" deep blue vinyl was out, next to the CD version (with that flip flop hard paper cover).
Who was behind that soundscape like programming? Statik !
In his interview Statik was saying he was working on making beats / loop for Prince around the beautiful/gold era. He would hand him some tapes / DAT, and Prince would say which one he likes and that would be the start of one song. That’s all I remember, sorry I cannot find any scan or references, hope someone can make it surface?
I wonder how much Statik was involved in 94/95 Prince output? According to this page: http://www.allmusic.com/artist/statik-mn0001741008/credits
He did 2 songs for Prince, the smashing hit "TMBGITW" and "Space".
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Ricky P was also instrumental to creating that sound. I believe he was quoted as saying that Prince would bring him a track that was little more than a demo and he'd rebuild it from the ground up.
Wonder what a Statik/Ricky P produced Prince album would sound like in 2012.....
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Slightly off-topic: Statik (AKA Eric Anest) is a member of industrial band Collide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...%28band%29
Statik has mentioned Prince in a couple of interviews, and usually boasts of beating him at ping-pong.
http://www.angelfire.com/...iew06.html
http://www.collide.net/in...tage.shtml
There's another interview in which he tells the story again, but I can't find it. It's basically his one and only Prince anecdote. [Edited 7/3/12 8:43am] | |
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