Topline synth, The Knife Like a pen

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I think there’s surprisingly little “confirmed” info about the production on the Silent Shout album. Of course this adds to the mystique of the band and the album… That’s an album I’ve loved for 15 years and a big reason I eventually started writing electronic music. Although Shaking the Habitual was a more difficult album, I still really liked that one as well, and it’s sad they disbanded after that… Also like both Olof and Karin’s solo work, especially the first Fever Ray album.

Some guesstimates in this GS thread. I think I’ve also seen a thread on the old Elektron-users forum about The Knife.

And one fairly recent thread on here as well. More questions than answers, still.

The Knife and Machinedrum/Monomachine

This may be old news, but I am still obsessed with the album Silent Shout by The Knife. I wanted their sound as my jumping-off point, so many years ago I bought the MD/MM combo. (I’ve since sold the MM and sort of regret it, don’t yell I had my reasons.) Anyway the point of this post is to ask if anyone knows, how they might have produced entire tracks with these devices? There are of course many ways to go, but listening to the tracks, I would guess that programmed patterns were used in com…

All this makes me miss my MnM which I’m borrowing to a friend for about six months… Knew this would happen but it’s also meant to be a GAS killer so that when the MnM returns, it’s almost like me getting a new instrument.