Dirty Cash I Want/Need You - major SID sounds!
Posted: 07/04/2007 - 22:21
I was listening to my local radio station last night and I came across one of those mega-mixes which compilated together a number of different songs, some recent, some old. I couldn't believe my ears when I started hearing the very distinct sounds of the SID chip that I thought I was imaging things, but I swear to god it could have been nothing else other than a SID-style chip generating them.
The song itself that was playing whilst the SID sounds drove their funky beat was something that I vaguely remember not liking back from the 80s or 90s somewhere (the chorus went "Diiirty Caaash I Waaant Yoouu, Diiirty Caaash I Neeed Yoouu). By the time I had my mobile phone ready to bootleg a recording of it it went on to the next remix (again, this was some sort of long mega-mix of songs).
The SID sounds themselves were the sort of variety that you know were kinda special but were possibly not considered good enough to want to identify in our youth, but the range of SID sounds ventured from some long-ago seemingly-familiar semi-samples as well as some doctored analog notes to beef things up a little. I haven't had the time to ask the radio station itself what the mega-mix was called if anything (being Easter and all), but I will endeavour to hunt down the persons responsible for bringing this to the air-waves after Tuesday.
It looks indeed like the SID is being discovered all over again by the (now) hip music community. I guess nobody else has heard of this (or any other similar) pop-song remix with a distinct SID flavour to them?
The song itself that was playing whilst the SID sounds drove their funky beat was something that I vaguely remember not liking back from the 80s or 90s somewhere (the chorus went "Diiirty Caaash I Waaant Yoouu, Diiirty Caaash I Neeed Yoouu). By the time I had my mobile phone ready to bootleg a recording of it it went on to the next remix (again, this was some sort of long mega-mix of songs).
The SID sounds themselves were the sort of variety that you know were kinda special but were possibly not considered good enough to want to identify in our youth, but the range of SID sounds ventured from some long-ago seemingly-familiar semi-samples as well as some doctored analog notes to beef things up a little. I haven't had the time to ask the radio station itself what the mega-mix was called if anything (being Easter and all), but I will endeavour to hunt down the persons responsible for bringing this to the air-waves after Tuesday.
It looks indeed like the SID is being discovered all over again by the (now) hip music community. I guess nobody else has heard of this (or any other similar) pop-song remix with a distinct SID flavour to them?