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  • Fostex X-26

    I remember using this blessed 4 track recorder as early as 1985 but I can’t find much information on it. I was a home studio recording artist playing the guitar, bass, drum machine, supplemental keyboards and trying to sing in 1985. I never mastered the Fostex X-26, meaning I never ping ponged any track so I didn’t go pass 4 track recording. Limiting my compositions and imagination. I didn’t realize there was a big difference between recording artist and record producer until around 1990.

    I sent some demo tapes to the major labels in the mid 80s. No offers but I did get a rejection letter from Benny Medina. I should have kept it. Might be worth something today. My style in the 80s was alternative dance music. I was trying to mesh the syncopated rhythms I loved with alternative rock arrangements.

  • The Early 80s

    When the 80’s began I was still too young to go to the record store alone, that would change in a few years. I started playing the guitar in 1981. I was still listening to black or soul music, pop or top 40 music and I was still loving dance music. Disco transforming into many new genres.

    Are you old enough to remember when Americans recorded radio programs onto cassette with one machine? I became good at recording songs off the radio. A prerequisite for my home studio recording career which commenced in high school.

    I’m choosing one symbol for the early 80’s. By the end of the decade the cassette tape was going out of business.