Memory project

It’s been a long while since I did one of these, but reading the following in an interview with Boards Of Canada:

Obviously we didn’t have a multitrack recorder, but we had two tape recoders. What you could do is record something on one tape recorder, play it back across two feet of air and while it was playing accompany it with something else on the guitar, the piano, the drums, whatever. We would do this, swap the cassettes over and do it again and again until the tapes started getting so distorted that you couldn’t do it any longer. So it was really crude old-school multitrack recording

prompted me to remember that I used to fiddle about making sounds and music quite a bit in my early teens (c.14/15). I had an old acoustic guitar and even went to a few evening classes. I saved up for and bought a Moog Prodigy and my dad made me a little mixer that allowed me to mix down inputs from those and anything else with a jack onto one of those cassette recorders that had a mono speaker at the back a bit like the one above, but Dad’s was black, metal and bulkier. The memory of the little mixer with its sockets for inputs and silver knobs in a silver metal box is just there, on the edges of memory. Thank you Dad.