![]() Check out a rapturously tender Surfer Girl, a delicately spacey Tired of Waiting for You – and Kenny Wollesen’s deep, casually flappy percussion, which elegantly counterbalances the metallic clangs all the way through. On a casual listen, he might seem to be treating the Chantays’ Pipeline or the Junior Wells blues Messin’ With the Kid as if he’s still a teenage guitar prodigy who has just excitedly learned them off the singles – but in fact this is as serious, witty, layered and subtle as any of his more abstract work. But it’s also a fine display of bluegrass and rock-inspired contemporary music, in which Frisell’s intelligent, jazz-informed sensibility is applied to 1950s and 60s classics by Duane Eddy, the Beach Boys, the Kinks and more. Bill Frisell is a lifelong lover of the quintessentially American invention, drawing on everything from Charlie Christian swing through 50s tremolo twangs to cutting-edge pedal technology. Please bear in mind that the original raw recordings were intentionally made to sound vintage, so even the dry samples may still have a noticeable room tone, hiss, mic-bleed, or other “distressed-sounding” characteristics.T his is an old-school electric guitar fan’s album, played by one of the most creative guitar fans in the world. Any extreme effects or additional reverb has been removed or reduced to allow the user more freedom to customize the tone of the samples as they wish. The DRY samples are provided with a somewhat more neutral sonic character. The music video was directed by Anthony Van Den Ende, who also did 'I Ran. features music from pioneering electronic composer Fred Judd, Canadian pop-psych group The Sugar Shoppe and British jazz artist Bob Downes amongst further. The processing used may include extreme EQ, added harmonic distortion, tape effects, and additional reverb or other effects. ![]() After the second world war, the race to space had begun. We speak about the 1950’s of the past century, when the year 2000 was still a magical number. The WET samples are provided as they sound in the context of the complete mix, and have been rendered with any processing used to achieve the vintage authentic sound heard on the demos. Welcome to the space age, the age of reliability strange planets, rockets, robots and martians. The MixesĮach audio loop is presented with two mix options: wet and dry. A brief list of the coveted classic gear we used includes, original Neumann/Telefunken tube U47s (3), RCA 44 ribbon mics (3), RCA DX77 ribbon mics (2), Altec and Ampex tube mixers, Pultec EQs, and a Fairchild-style compressor. Working in some of New York’s best studios, we captured the sounds of a classic studio orchestra using the tools and techniques of the era. Space age pop is a genre of music that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, characterized by its use of futuristic and electronic sounds, as well as orchestral. We went all out on recording this project as authentically as possible. Professional lead sheets for each construction kit The Recordings 1300 audio loops in total (from the construction kits) 2 mix options for each audio loop (wet/vintage and dry/clean) Space age pop was popular until the mid-60s, when easy listening began to incorporate rock techniques. Space Age Pop! brings you the authentic sound of a mid-century studio orchestra, including:
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