well i wasn't quite sure where to put this, so i decided to make a thread about it. you might have guessed that this is about Proem..well it is. his track Access Mike (Failure to Connect) omits a strange feeling..what's he talking about?

well, the secret is out. i have been reading this review on Modsquare in which they ask Richard some random things. Access Mike comes up and apparantley the title pertains to this guy on a Yahoo group that Richard would talk to. they would talk quite a bit and it seemed as though Mike would never sign off...he'd always be there! just kinda interesting.

There’s a peak in almost every tune, like “Access Mike (Failure To Connect).�

Rich laughs, “That’s actually this dude who was online all the time. The name comes from the fact that way before the Hydrant record, I used to hang out in Yahoo groups and this guy was always online. His name was Mike—we used to talk up a storm, and anytime I would go online, he was on; it was like he never slept. So it was like, you could constantly ‘access Mike’.�

another interesting note..."I’m so in love with the fact that I can just assign a time- stretch to an envelope without having to build massive ensembles in Reaktor. Believe it or not, I compose everything in Fruity Loops.�

“And this one will really get you—Burn Plate was written on a DOS-based 486. It had a max. speed of somewhere between 33 and 66 mHz. I wouldn’t even install Windows; it ran too slowly. There was this program called Soundclub; it accepted 8 or 10 different formats and put out like 5 or 6. All I did was…all the instruments and stuff; I had one of those 24-bit guitar effects processors and split the channels so all the melodic stuff went through that and everything else was just dry."

i remember reading that review some time ago (last year i think it was). i've been into proem ever since i picked up his burn plate album (autechre with melodies). i actually communicated with rick a few times myself -he's a nice guy.....notice the squarepusher pic on the back of his monitor? who are the others? more WARP artists?

one of them looks like BT..im sure it isn't. Bailey is a true artist. i don't know if i'd call Burn Plate Autechre. i guess you could say it's a free-form Autechre sound though. check out Too Many Cookies.