Dale's Music
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| Feb 2008 Live Set Demo |
This page is all about the music of Dale Baldwin. Dale is a Canberra based Electronic musician producing a style of music influenced by Acid House, Breaks, 2 Step, Techno, Jazz and Progressive sounds.
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Major Influences
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| Let Go (web mix) |
Dale's major influences include early Prodigy (Voodoo People, Everybody in the Place, Wind it up) and Orbital (Chime, Halcyon on and on, Impact) through to more recent acts such as General Midi, Aquasky and Hybrid.
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| Elite Force White Lightning |
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From a DJ perspective Dale has been an avid collector of House and Techno records since the age of 16 and has a large and glowing vinyl collection that covers the genres of House, Techno, Breaks, Progressive, Trance and Psy.
Hardware
To make his sound Dale uses a combination of Hardware Synths, Samplers and VST instrument emulations of vintage synths.
The current kit list includes
- Yamaha AN1X
- Korg EMX-1
- Roland SH 32
- Roland SA 09
- Akai S3000XL
- Korg Legacy Collection (MS-20, Poly Six, Wavestation)
- Alesis HR 16
Cool things I will get to in the future
In addition to the above kit Dale also uses a laptop and a midi controller keyboard live to Trigger samples out of Ableton live in real time. I will get to writing a page with screen shots and a how to eventually, if I don't use the discussion page link up top to remind me!
Also check out this article on Tube article for info on Vintage tubes and valve distortion which is a part of Dale's production process
For more info on these and other cool pieces of vintage kit have a look at Vintage Synth Explorer
