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PrimitiveModern
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- about 1 year ago
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my biography
Primitive Modern was an unusual group recording in the late 80's to late 90's. This is the main group that Steve Engler was involved in before Synthetic. The personnel were Steve Engler (Keyboards, Guitars, Percussion), Alex Wright (Same) and Duane McCarthy (Flutes, Keys, Engineering & Mastering). I started this page to show people my most prolific prior musical project. Also I am hoping to find past bandmates by posting this. If people like the music we made, I will probably put something up for sale on MySpace in the future. The goal of primitive Modern was to make an electronica related alternative to New Age music. Duane also brought in a strong Prog rock influence on his compositions. For reasons as many as Brian Wilson had, our swan song LP was never actually released. I believe I have finally brought this original music into a complete album that hopefully won't sound overly dated since we weren't copying any one style. The album is called Jurassic Technology, both the group name and album title were representative of the fact that we mixed primitive and acoustic instruments with modern synthesizers and effects processors. None of the music was computer made, no loops, many live improvs. Hope you folks will like it, remember it's 80's and 90's lo-fi electronica.
my sounds
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- Title: Romeo's Hair Is On Fire!
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- Description: This was a fun one to make. Alex Wright wrote the main theme, and all 3 of us played an equal share. The piano, organ, tympani and theremin were played real time, which was tricky for such a tight sounding song. Carl Orff meets Laibach sort of.
- Title: Supernova (Starlight Mix)
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- Description: This started out as a piece for the industrial project I was in called Twitch Revolt. The flute melody was inspired by a friend's visit to the holy land, she came back humming melodies she heard there. Music performed by Duane McCarthy, Alex Wright and Steve Engler, and melody inspired by Veronica Taylor.
- Title: Angel's Dance
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- Description: The backing track and vocals date back to 1986, vocals were improvised by the talented Shelly Staples. The electronic drums were added around 1994, everything was done on a Tascam 4 track portastudio.
- Title: Hitchhiking On The Moon
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- Description: This is a duet between Steve Engler (Guitar improvisations, Backing Tracks) and renowned flute player Duane McCarthy (Flute improvisations). The groove is inspired by Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys.
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my influences
Brian Eno, Aphex Twin (Ambient), Plaid, Allan Parson's Project, Yello, Tangerine Dream, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Peter Gabriel, Enigma, Mark Isham, Patrick O Hearn, Dead Can Dance, Carl Orff (Carmina Burana) & Vangelis to name a few.
my comments
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aeronaut |
11 months ago
- Hey PrimitiveModern,
sounds really great, I voted for your entries.
You made me remember the old days, when I was fiddling around with a friend's 4-track; my fender piano and a couple of synths...
Happy Holidays!
Jef -
HUMANOISE |
11 months ago
- Hi, nice to meet you!
Your music are excellent, thank you!
I wanna be your friends.
Spend Good Life!
Wish your luck!
Seeyaa
by HUMANOISE.. -
Richard Thomas |
about 1 year ago
- Hi guys, how are you doing?
I've set out to vote for my 'older' friends here at Mi7. Both of your songs deserve 10 points. They're good.
Hope you'll find some time to listen to my songs (again) and vote for me too… thanks!
Greeetings and success from the very low lands of Holland,
Richard -
Small Colin |
about 1 year ago
- interesting tracks. ;-)
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nanotec |
about 1 year ago
- Supernova, what can I say, super, er, Super Duper Starship Trooper in fact, got my t'umbs up chaps, good luck.
Big up Stevo. -
Mindmovie |
about 1 year ago
- well at that point in time I was all into hardware - no computers please - so I had the Yamaha RX5 a guitar rack bigs as an american size fridge, and a QY20 as a sequencer - plus a Tascam 3440 4-track machine - bouncing tracks together to have more tracks than just 4 - well now everything is much easier with all this fancy plug in stuff and VST - but still it counts who sits in front of the PC and how you use the tools. As you can imagine by this words you also took me on a trip backwards - and also agree with spin - oops I just dated myself !!!!
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loveshadow |
about 1 year ago
- Its about time you started doing something that we can all sing along to
some thing my mum would like :-) -
colab |
about 1 year ago
- For my taste, you're at least 50% right about the music aging pretty well. :)
"Angel ..." was OK to me, but that type of voice sound really dates it, and doesn't work for me as well.
Now, "Hitchhiking ..." is a completely different story altogether - very interesting track - and it stands up very well today.
Much like Spin, I also had a 1040ST (well, I lie - it was a 520 with an expanded 512k RAM) which I used to control my Roland D-10.
And because we're talking nostalgia here, I'll add that my older brother had a monophonic Roland SH-5 (http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/sh5.shtml) which taught me a lot about VCOs/LFOs - stuff that I use today in my software analogue synths.
Great stuff Steve, and thanks for sharing. -
spinmeister |
about 1 year ago
- aaah that sound brings back sweet memories.
Me and my Atari 1040ST, Juno60, DX7, SH-101, Fostex 8-track and a Drumulator. It was a miracle when I could get everything to sync up :-)
Oops I just dated myself, but that's what your tracks did to me - and needless to say, I did enjoy your guided tour down memory lane!
