Wow, Future Music, thatās a blast from the past.
In the mid-90ās onwards for several years, i struggled to pass a newsagent shop without going in and checking out the magazines, i did have Sound on Sound mag on subscription for a while but pretty much anything related to Electronic or Dance Music i would but.
I was like a sponge soaking up the info and reading the interviews with producers etc, plus salivating over equipment i wouldnāt be able to afford until at least into the early 2000ās.
I was also a massive Drum 'n Bass fan, ambient stuff like Good Looking and i also have the Blu mar ten jungle samples, although in the early day, i spent an awful lot of time making my own samples.
Recording into Cool Edit Pro (remember that?), from the MS2000R or the Emu Proteus 2000, etc and mangling some of the samples with FX, the filters on Cool Edit werenāt to be sneered at, they were quite powerful.
I programmed a lot of stuff in Logic, drum loops i made and other stuff until some 20 years later, i have quite a massive sample folder, with all sorts of stuff in there and iām adding to it all the time.
Iām sure iāll be sampling noises from the MicroKorg and the Minilogue soon, i havenāt had them long and been very busy with other things outside of music for the last year or so but now i can get stuck into making some reasonable musicā¦hopefully.