I also messaged Killerhertz on myspace. It's not the Killerhertz we are looking for.
poo.
I also messaged Killerhertz on myspace. It's not the Killerhertz we are looking for.
poo.
so now we must check all sounds of killerheadz in fx records....bad luck:((
this is a wicked track. hope you gonna sort it out!
No shit Reinforced. Unfortunately, this track just doesn't want to be id'ed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reinforced
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you could write a book on this tune.. good luck fellow tune heads
Book wouldn't have a title though!Quote:
Originally Posted by laith179
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nothing shocking - contained info, thats gone now :)
I think I have might found the Killerhertz, needs just one email to get a confirmation...fingers crossed boys :) :thumbsup:
I have e mailed him Bunks!! ;)
wow good luck great team work it shows the true sprit of such a good site with liked minded people respect....
Yep. I got the email. I made that tune. Takes me back ;-)
Ha!
just got yer replies m8, thx for getting back that fast :thumbsup:
I think THE main thing we wanna know is . . .
is it ur track that is added here in the first post?
is it an alternative or other mix version of Killerhertz - Love Byte (Strontium Mix) as it 'samples' the longest running Old Skool unknown in the internet history :D
Make the oldtimers massive a happy one m8!
Did ya more tracks then the ones that are on Discogs?
and the photo of that car I saw on yer site..fekkin' wikked that one :)
rest me one more thing to say - THX for making me / us dance in the past, KILLER(hertz) toonz for sure :thumbsup:
Yes. The tune in the first post was made by me. The later version was released on the Killerhertz Love Byte EP is what it evolved into, though on that EP, I think Distant Dream is the stronger track (though the best mix of DD never made it to vinyl at all)
I'll post in a minute the details of the first track - though you're not going to like it :o
OK,
So there I am in 1991 (I think!) and Kiss Fm has not been on air for long (legally). It had launched in London and I could just about get reception here in Kent with a good aerial. I was listening to Colin Dale and Colin Favor a lot, so thats where my infleunces came from. I couldn't really play any instruments, but I could string together the tunes I had in my head with a sequencer and some patience :D
My first music gear was an Akai S950 sampler, a Yamaha SY-22 synth, a TR909 drum machine (yes a real one) a cheap mixer and reverb, and this was all running off an Alesis MMT8 hardware sequencer. I only had a Commodore Amiga at the time and hadn't bought Music-x then. I was never an Atari user.
Its been fun reading the posts this evening. Seems the tune in question is a source of much debate and misery :o and there is a lot of mention of Colin Dale. Well its been the best part of 20 years, but I have it my memory that it was Colin Favor that played this tune. He used to do a spot encouraging people to send their tunes it - it was called Demo Dat Pressure I think. I also have this show on tape somewhere in a box but nowhere handy so can't confirm.
I did two tunes at this time with my old Alesis sequencer and sent them in to the Colin Favor(?) show. The first tune was called Madness (it was rubbish) but he played it one week. The second tune, and I think I did call it Love Byte even on the demo, was played a week later - and that is what the tune uploaded in the first post is - my original tune from the Demo Dat Pressure slot on Colin Favor's show.
That was good enough for me - an endorsement from Colin :D. I borrowed some cash to press 1000 records - but not either of these tunes made it. I released a tune on my own label Evasion records called The Enforcer, which sold OK. I was working at a printers back then, so it even had a decent printed cover.
Colin Favor played both sides of this one week after the other, and gave away 5 copies on air as I had sent them in for a competition giveaway.
Now the oringal Love Byte was still sitting there untouched. I had the tune, the riffs and the samples. However, the crowd I was mixing with at the time, said it sounded *too synthy* as it had the chords playing quite a lot from the SY22 keyboard. It wasn't very current as the trend was swinging to very sample based and breakbeaty tunes. The next release of mine went out on FX records, which was based at the studio I was using to mix. The track was Called NRG and for that release I was called Crossfade. One of the riffs in that used the sample sound from Love Byte - I think the original sample came from a track by Shades of Rythm called Excorcist. So I guess after that I felt I couldn't use that sample again. You'll find that on Youtube (search for Crossfade NRG and the B-Side was Crossfade Here We Go Again)
The guts, melodies and sequences from the original Love Byte were than ported over from the Alesis sequencer to my Amiga, now running Music-X and the tune evolved into several mixes, 2 of which went out on the Distant Dream EP.
Both Love Byte and Distant Dream tracks were released not as I originally had them when I went into the studio, they were made a bit more piano-ish and developed whilst being recorded - as I was not releasing this on my own label I had to trust the direction of who was footing the bill for the pressings!
Blah blah blah blah blah blah. Lots of stuff happened after that thats irrelevant, but thats how Love Byte came to be as released on vinyl.
But what about the original most-hunted for mix?
Well I really hate to dissapoint. The mix that was played on the radio show was never released on vinyl. Bigger fool me, as just listening to it tonight has made me ask why not! At the time it just didn't quite fit I guess.
Even worse than that, it was never even put down on DAT. I didn't have one then. Thats right, my tracks were sent in to Kiss Fm and played from a cassette. A ruddy cassette tape and I was on air. Couldn't believe it.
The whole thing was on a hardware sequencer that couldn't save anything. So no files from that. The Akai S950 sampler disks have long been corrupt. The gear has long been sold.
No Cassettes. No Vinyl. No DAT. Sorry guys - if I had a DAT master tape of it I'd get it MP3'd and you could do what you wanted with it.
Probably the only surviving copies are what people taped off of the radio station back in the day, and that sounded a bit ropy then with cassette compression, and then even more radio FM compression when it was transmitted.
Sorry to dissapoint, but I hope it puts a few things to rest and ends some peoples fruitless searches.
If anyone wants to re-record it sometime let me know and I'll try to help :p
The acid sample is of course from Joey Beltram, the main Breakbeat is of course from the Stone Roses Fools Gold, the high pitch riff is from Shades of Rythm Excorcist, the pads are from a Yamaha SY22, no idea where the siren sample is from, and the bassline is just killing me. I can't think of anthing I had at the time that would have sounded like that. It could have only come from the Akai sampler (so could be anything) or the Yamaha SY22.
Has anyone got a full length decent bitrate MP3 of the original broadcast - I'd love to hear it all again!
Regards
Sonic - I never got an email from yourself, only Bunks - but I hope my post has cleared up all you wanted to know about it.
Eric = Sonikunderground = BUNKERHEADZ ;)
and kin hell, worra story!
pity it was never pressed or saved on a DAT or floppy, all we can say about that is that ya made history here with the most sought after unknown tune there ever was.
Let's see if we can sort ya out with that broadcast, I have a feeling someone from my forum does have it :)
OLD SKOOL LOVERS '80 - '93 / Colin Faver & Colin Dale - KISS 100 FM
THX :D
Well Bunkz, you promised you'd solve it one day and you have. Excellent work and it was great to read the story of the track. Nice one Killerhertz - should have stuck to your guns, you were just too ahead of your time!
Gutted no-one seems to have the whole tune. Just have to re-record it for us... :thumbsup:
Excellent story killerhertz. Thanks for taking the time to tell it!
gutted
Jeeeeeeeeeeez, Ace story Killerhertz Respect!!! - Proper ID put to bed. Always thought this would be taken to the grave lol.
Just been on a mission to rip my old Maxell tape so here is probably the best rip sop far (4.30 mins).
Killerhertz - Colin Dale Unknown ID.mp3
If anyone feels like tweaking it then please do. :-)
killerhertz then....yeahhhhhhhhhh.nice job gyes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!big one mystery find solution.i hope to find better tape pauly p xeexexexexexexex.fantastic song!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello Killerhertz, went to great lengths to find you!! through Lee Humphries, Simon Underground finally to Sean Moffet!!! Bunks found an easier route lol :D
Fantastic story, on the one hand Im relieved to finally know the tale behind this tune, on the other Im very disappointed i'll never track it down on vinyl. Last hope is that someone is up for trying to recreate it with you. You could put a few hundred copies out on vinyl, make a few quid and make a lot of people very happy!!
Pauly, wonderful to hear a more complete version of the track, makes me want it even more now!!!! :(
Someone must have the gear to reproduce it!!!!
Cheers for the story - amazing tune, respect Killerhertz!!!!! :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by killerhertz
Finally nailed after all those years, thanks for making it happen ppl :)
Thanks for taking the time to write up that story Chris and thanks for all the quality tunes you've made.
Love hearing these stories behind the music we all love here.
Oh and nice1 Pauly , thats pretty much the whole tune there.
Tried to polish it up a bit in wavelab , but not really got a clue what im doing.
Did notice the levels were very high and sounded a bit distorted , maybe you could redo it without it clipping ?
here it is : zSHARE - killerhertz demo.mp3
can someone attach a sample on to this site? I know it wont do it justice but I am stuck at work and would love to hear it if possible
Cheers
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Originally Posted by Sonic92
Yellow pages mukka, easy as that ;) :thumbsup:
@ Ragga - a clip is attached on the first post of this thread :)
LOL!! Ffs, and I thought I was being clever!! :D
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Originally Posted by BUNKERHEADZ
LOL, nah taking the piss m8 -
I Googled on C Marwood Kent UK and emailed the first one that was on top of the results page, turned out it was bullseye :)
Thanks Pauly P for ripping it and putting it up for download. I've been listening to it all day LOL Certainly saved me a lot of searching for old tapes of the show.
All Day Killerhertz !!!!!yessssssssssssssssssssss
i wait one better tape.am i so selfish????
so we can say this id is.. killerhertz - love byte (unreleased mix)
we can say that biskit,but if you see upstairs pauly p found all song from tape but not so good.who"s find better sound than pauly p tape?
Pauly P's tape is the best version there is atm...Chris is gonna do a remake of it as soon as he finds time, he sorted out a befriended producer who's willing to let Chris use his set up :)
Thanks for the complete/ish version pauly p & to everyone else who put in the work tracking it down.
Nice story behind the track Killerhertz & cheers for taking the time to come on here & let us know it, pity it was never released or saved though.
Man that tune always puts a smile on my face & a little rush down my back, I love that 91 techno groove sound.
Well I've now found my original recording of the whole Colin Faver show from that night in '91 and it does include the beginning, and the end with voiceover. You haven't missed much, the intro is just beats. I'll get it ripped to MP3 soon and put it online.
With regards to re-recording, I've dusted off an old controller keyboard and started playing about in Reason. Compositionally its easy to re-arrange, but I haven't found the siren sample, or a good bass that sounds like the main. I'll keep hunting though and see what happens.
Chris -
someone said that the siren sound cud have been taken from a Trance Trax track, the ones on Beat Box International, Belgium label, I have a couple of m and all as mp3, gonna ave a listen tonight and see if I can get ya the sample.
If ya check Oggs ya see I posted the Shades Of Rhythm sample as wav, ready to use ;)
Trance Trax - First (12") at Discogs
that's the one - Fuck You is the siren one, start of the track, will make ya a wav and post it on Oggs.
wow id'd at last this id has been floating around for ages
i allways said it sounded like it was a Demo dat pressure jobbie... and it was
fucking top work fellas
Thats great. Would make sense too - I remember having some Trance Trax vinyls. Just a few more sounds to collect now phones: