This man is cleverer than you

news | Jan 27th, 2011 | View Comments

As each software update, new application, and memory increase makes the job of the dance music producer ever easier, there are a few who choose to ignore such ‘progress’.

Gavin Russom is one of them. Whilst most producers cheered at the advent of audio manipulation tools like Ableton Live, and digital recorders and MIDI controllers, Russom was too busy doing a vintage synth autopsy to notice.

‘Hang on’ he would have shouted, as the studio masses threw their 808s and 909s on to the synthesizer graveyard heap, otherwise known as eBay. ‘We haven’t even begun to explore the limitations of these machines yet!’