"Floodland" recording anecdote

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AdrenaChris
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One of my friends just reminded me of something they told me ages ago of how while she was at LCM (Leeds Music College) one of her Lecturers was a studio engineer on "Floodland" (working for Andy Jackson) and had a hilarious story about Eldritch apprently spending THREE DAYS getting one kick drum sound right
At least 50% of which was just him taking stupid amounts of coke and re-arranging objects in the studio to try and elicit acoustic effects which apparently he was only really hearing because he was so coked up.
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Hahahh,now I love the kick drums in Floodland even more :lol: :notworthy: :von:
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That could explain the VT sessions...
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.
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So Floodland was not made on hallucinogenic drugs? :eek: :lol:
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The kick drum on Floodland was pretty tight, but the one he uses these days is off the chain - probably sampled from about a million different sounds put together... pity we'll probably never be hearing from the good Doktor again on another studio record...
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