As the heading suggest we’re currently trying out two quite different ‘drum machines’. The first one being, as we’ve written here before, a human drum machine. An actual drummer. Just recently we’ve also been testing a real drum machine, albeit with a human programmer. These are quite different approaches to finding the The Livelong June drum sound. Both ways have advantages, but also challenges. The challenge with an actual drummer who actually knows how to play the drums is to make him (i.e. Force him) to play restrained. To prevent him from grooving things up. I understand it’s quite hard for a drummer not to use his instrument the way he is used to. But we’re after the programmed sound with that small human feel to it.

The second drummer programs his beats, so they sound programmed alright. Here the challenge is to deliver the idea and our intentions with the sound and our music to a third person.

All in all, it looks bright on the drummer front at this point. It’s exciting to define the missing piece of our sound and it’s also fascinating to experience how we think alike and agree in terms of sounds and music, Benny and I. And who knows, we might end up having two drummers live..

/Marcus