""THE TEACHES OF PEACHES WAS WRITTEN AND PRODUCED USING A ROLAND MC-505 GROOVEBOX..."
PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on one of several Roland MC-505 units — a self-contained synthesizer, drum machine and sequencer — used by PEACHES in her early career. Courtesy of the artist.
MINI-OVERVIEW: ""The Teaches of Peaches" was written and produced using a Roland MC-505 Groovebox, in a super-simple one-machine, bedroom set-up. It wasn’t even just a bedroom set-up, she says. “It was anywhere I could find a plug… I wasn’t really interested in the traditional, layered ways of composing. I was more interested in a punk way, using electronics, but saying ‘this is the bass, this is the guitar, these are the drums. That’s your instruments and they all have their place. They all get heard’. I just wanted to make sure that the one sound is just slamming and it’s direct and it hits you between the eyes.”
"I liked to use it back then because I would find very direct sounds I really liked,” she says, "probably sounds KRAFTWERK used [laughs]. I looked at the name of one of the sounds I used a lot, and it was the sine tone. Literally the sine tone. I would slightly manipulate it, but I thought it was so direct and it had such a perfect place in what I was doing.""
-- AUDIO SPITFIRE, "PEACHES on the Roland MC-505 Groovebox & the "Teaches of Peaches" 20th anniversary tour, by Emma Warren, c. 2020
Sources: https://composer.spitfireaudio.com/en/articles/peaches-on-the-roland-mc-505-groovebox-the-teaches-of-peaches-20th-anniversary-tour & discogs.
