[Prestidigitweeze]

I go as far back as the Atari ST, Cubase, the Voyetra, the George Martin Neve with Flying V Faders and Massenburg automation, the SSL desk that pelted you with British insults whenever the engineer made a mistake, and racks of effects and modules, but that's about it.

The MIDI ports on the back of the ST seemed like an amazing convenience back then.

I remember working on a track called "Psychosexual Surgery" with exactly that setup and using samples from the Jeffrey Dahmer trial. The co-producer/co-composer and I used to try to work when her flatmate wasn't around because he used to look at us wide-eyed and ask, "Will you be making more murder music?" One day, we returned to find him moving his things out in terror.

Roli Mosimann from the Swans, who wouldn't have minded our "murder music," had lived there before him.

So, Ataris and C64s. Fairlights, Synclaviers, Emus and game consoles the size of sewing machines.