Rick Richards:
Generations Vol. 2

1985

The tracks on these two volumes were composed and recorded throughout Rick's High School years.

A variety of "affordable" instruments were used including one of the first, fully programmable, MIDI synthesizers (KORG Poly-800), a very early Casiotone keyboard (16 preset instrument sounds and drum beats!) and a toy drum machine (Mattel, Synsonics).

All recorded through the process of overdubbing from one cassette recorder, through a four channel stereo mixer, to another cassette recorder, and back again. Each time adding a new live instrument (and noise) to the mix.

Sometimes the motors in the cassette machines would slow, or speed up causing portions of the song to go slightly out of tune with the previously recorded instruments.

The result was a hissing, humming, out of tune, muddy mix of instrumentation. Ahhh the good ol' days...