Drew & Nathan
@The DNA Project
Iowa City, IA USA
Joined Oct 10, 2011
When most people hear that you're going to Iowa City to visit a good friend from high school, they figure that on a July 4th weekend that the majority of your time will be spent trying not to blow your fingers off with fireworks.
If you had asked either of us, that's what we would have said too.
But when Drew started going through the Combo patches on my Korg Triton, I started hearing more than just drum 'n' bass. I was hearing compositions, and I headed upstairs to Drew's office to grab his Roland JV-90 as quickly as I could. To his living room I headed with wonderful visions of luscious melodies and chord progressions racing through my mind. He selected one patch, and we played together perfectly as though we had rehearsed this song many times before.
About three songs into our experiment Drew suggested we should be recording this, so we patched the two synths directly into his Marantz CD Burner and set the levels. We recorded these ten songs, a whole album, in just that one afternoon.
Both of us think it turned out sounding great. Drew played the entire album on a Korg Triton LE and I played on a Roland JV-90. The album was written exactly as it is arranged on the CD, from start to finish, and most of the songs were recorded in a single take.
So now when I drive to Iowa City to see him, we only have one thing on our minds... What will we come up with this time?
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