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Pacific State/808 State - (Circuit Tracks Version)

This week’s track is another favourite Hacienda club track. This time from 1989 by the group 808 State (thanks again to Yves Big City ‪@bigcitymastering‬ for inspiring this series). The original was actually recorded in January 1988 as a reply to the emerging Chicago House scene ‘Pacific State’ has been released in a number of guises. Sometimes just called ‘Pacific,’ other times being labelled numerically after Roland machines eg. 707, 202. This version is a bit of an amalgamation of a few of those versions. Worth noting too that Gerald Simpson ('A Guy Called Gerald') was originally one of the founding members of 808 State before leaving to start his solo career with 'Voodoo Ray'. I was inspired to cover this after recently acquiring a copy of the Emulator II library disks (to recreate the Kraftwerk track, 'Tour De France' see here    • Tour De France/Kraftwerk - (Circuit Tracks...   ). Among these disks, Disk 22 is entitled ‘Loon Garden’. Cited by many as the original source of the ‘Loon’ bird sample we all know and love, it also features a ‘shakahuchi’ sample familiar to anyone who’s ever heard ‘Sledgehammer’ by Peter Gabriel and is a historic piece of sound design. Once you’ve heard these samples you can’t help but hear them across the whole spectrum of popular music. If anyone knows who originally recorded these original samples (also in the Akai S900 library) please leave a comment? As I started piecing this together I found this excellent video by ‪@CaptainPikant‬    • Analyzing PACIFIC STATE - How to make clas...   which elegantly detailed the rhythm patterns used. I simplified these somewhat to fit the drum tracks into just 2 tracks to allow room for Sax and Sound Effects tracks (see below). There is a small snatch of sampled 'sax' played on Logic sampler to fill in for the original sax solo played by Graham Massey from the band but otherwise everything was programmed and played on the Circuit Tracks. No extra synths or FX were used and the audio is recorded straight out of the stereo outs. I hope you enjoy this track as much as I did putting it together and check back soon for more. More details for synth nerds. The bass patch was programmed into Synth 1 to serve as both bass and melody line. The pad sound on Synth 2 is yet another detuned sawtooth pad with chorus, but rolled off with a 24dB low pass filter to create a sound a bit more like the original Juno (said to have been sampled as a chord into a Casio FZ1 sampler). The drum sounds are a mixture of various 909,707 and 727 Roland drum machine samples from the Reverb Drum Machines collection (normalised and filtered where required). The Sax sound was played using the sampler instrument in Logic (and is just a preset). The 3 edited phrases were placed onto Drum pad slots and triggered using Drum 3 when required. Another sample was a ‘bell’ patch created on the Tracks but sampled as a ‘glissando’ to double up the glissando played on the pad on Synth 2, as a break between sections of the song. Finally Drum 4 was reserved for water and ‘Loon’ sound effects (plus additional 727 rhythm). Did you know the Loon is actually a Canadian diving aquatic bird somewhat like a duck and not at all exotic! The tracks were as follows; 125BPM, Swing 59% Synth 1 – bass and melody Synth 2 – chorused pad chords Drum 1 – 707 bass drum Drum 2 – Hihat, Open Hat, Clap and Ride samples. Drum 3 – Sampled sax lines (and Tracks synth 'bell' glissando sample in break) Drum 4 – Sound effects, alternating with 727 percussion sampled bongo and muted conga sounds. It all came together well and I think sounds quite good on the Tracks. If you’d like to hear a more expansive version across a 'Tracks and Rhythm' combo let me know below. Once again if you have any questions leave a comment and I’ll do my best to help. Stay tuned! (p.s proudly displaying my vinyl copy of 'Quadrastate' I bought when it came out ;) )