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The Machine Breathes (Cassette Master)

by Modus Operandi

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It was 1984 and the excitement of Post-Punk Electronica, New Wave, and the promise of a new Avant-Garde Pop was electric. As an aside from our ‘serious’ project Childhood’s End (with vocalist Andy Brown, which would soon morph into Crimson Boy), Petar Zadraznik and I recorded a one-off under the name Modus Operandi; the project name a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of our main influences at the time - primarily Depeche Mode obviously, but also Fad Gadget / Duet Emmo / Yazoo / Kraftwerk / OMD / Human League / Portion Control / The Normal etc.

The explosion of affordable analog gear was a teenager’s dream come true & Petar was the first of our gang to master programming those early hardware sequencers and drum machines. He also had the best vinyl collection of obscure gems, sourced mainly from Perth’s legendary Dada Records. The Machine Breathes was an improvised jam (recorded sometime early to mid ’84) saturated not only by the nice noisy cassette, but also by the stylistic and thematic tropes of the era and the underground scene of the time.

The bassline is the primal and distinct-sounding Roland MC202 (which also triggers the Sample’n’hold sci-fi bubbling on a Roland SH101), drum machine chugga-chugga is the Korg DDM-110, and the melodies and ambient textures come from the Roland Juno 106 (which had just been acquired and was like owning a space ship). The original cassette recording has been used as the source for the master, but a good portion of tape noise has been kept so as to not steal from the tones of the instruments. The Machine Breathes is the sound of musical innocence, of self-conscious bright-eyed New Wavers, and of the excitement of electronic lurrve.

Modus Operandi operators :
Petar Zadraznik - Synthesizer Sequencer / Drum Machine
Vince Valentini - Synthesizer

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released December 1, 2023
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Performed by Modus Operandi
Original ’84 Cassette Recording
Mastering by Vince Valentini for Lightarmour Editions

Illustration & Cover Design By M.Rival

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