I’m sat here listening to my spotify playlist of my favourite songs from the 80s. Apart from realising that I don’t get out much, it has shown me something that I feel I have to share with you.
Sounds like…
The 80s saw the wide use of the drum machine and samplers in music. And that meant some interesting times. Certain musicians and artists used these instruments to go beyond what was physically possible with a real drummer or real musician. They used the medium to develop their creativity and art.
Meanwhile others used the virtual instruments to create a clean sound. In fact, and this is why I am writing this, they tried to make the virtual sound exactly like the physical. And I was part of that too. I remember spending hours crouched over a Yamaha drum machine attempting to make it sound like a real drummer… instead of asking the several that I knew to play a ‘good beat’.
And the point is… ?
I can’t help thinking that to try to make something sound exactly like something else, with no discernible change or improvement, is pointless. Why simply re-create?
If you have something in your creative bag of goodies then use it to its full potential. Push it. Move beyond what was originally intended.
Take an image
Take a stamp
Take a sound
Take a word
and create… you know you want to!
And if you wanted to know the inspiration to this post. I believe the only ‘real’ sounds here are the vocals, but even they may have been tampered 
However, I would like to add that I really love this song, and pretty much everything else that came out of Sarm West in the 80s.