Some of you might have known that in this Sunday's UK Newspaper 'The Mail On Sunday' Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene was given out for free with the price of the paper. Apparently the liner notes are as follows:
"Original score re-recorded (sic) and mixed by Jean Michel Jarre at JMJ Studio in High Definition 24 bits/96KHZ. "This album is dedicated to the following people without whom OXYGENE would never have existed: Pierre Schaeffer, who taught me everything in electro- acoustic and electronic music, Peter Zinovieff, who conceived the first European synthesizer and my first one, the VCS3, the Dutch company, Eminent, who built the fantastic string ensemble Eminent 310, Alan R. Pearlman, who created the ARP 2600 and 2500, Les Bradley, who developed the Mellotron, Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland , who gave us the Minipop (sic) and so many other marvels, Mike Matthews, who imagined these crazy pedals such as the Small Stone and the Electric Mistress, and my friend Robert Moog for obvious reasons."
Yep... That would be KORG that brought us the Minipops. If anyone can confirm this please do. This one via Benjamin Ward on the AH list.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
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Before founding Roland Ikutaro Kakehashi was already pretty renown for his work on Organs. I don't know if he had a hand in the Minipop 7 drum machine, but I wouldn't be surprised.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he was ever working for Keio (Korg). Before Roland he was with Acetone. Then again Roland should get credit for realizing musicans would want drum machines that were programmable. Keio did a lot to develop some of the first drum machines but they all had preset patterns.
ReplyDeleteAlso I wouldn't say "re-recorded (sic)" is a mistake. The album he's promoting is a re-recording of the original album. What else would you call it?
It was re-recorded as an in-studio live performance recording, with JMJ and three others. They kept all the mistakes in. See this month's Sound On Sound for more details.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I spent £1.50 on the Sunday Mail and put the rest straight in the recycling!
It was re-recorded as an in-studio live performance recording, with JMJ and three others. They kept all the mistakes in. See this month's Sound On Sound for more details.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, I spent £1.50 on the Sunday Mail and put the rest straight in the recycling!