{"id":5597,"date":"2022-05-02T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/it-was-the-poor-mans-studio-how-amiga-computers-reprogrammed-modern-music\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T09:38:24","slug":"it-was-the-poor-mans-studio-how-amiga-computers-reprogrammed-modern-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/02\/it-was-the-poor-mans-studio-how-amiga-computers-reprogrammed-modern-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was the poor man\u2019s studio\u2019: how Amiga computers reprogrammed modern music"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was grey, ugly and had 0.0128% of an iPhone\u2019s memory. But the Amiga 500 defied its limitations to power a series of astonishing dance tracks, from early jungle to Calvin Harris<\/p>\n

\u201cPhat as fuck.\u201d This was how jungle legend Gavin King<\/a> \u2013 AKA Aphrodite \u2013 described the powerful bass capabilities of his Amiga 1200 home computer in a 90s interview. Several decades later, it remains in his studio. With its drab grey buttons, it looks more suited to tax returns, but Amiga machines are instrumental in electronic music as we know it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing about the Amiga bassline is that it was constant volume, it didn\u2019t waver,\u201d King says now, \u201cso when you pulled it up to the maximum volume that you could press on to vinyl, it made it, well, phat as fuck.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nIt was grey, ugly and had 0.0128% of an iPhone\u2019s memory. But the Amiga 500 defied its limitations to power a series of astonishing dance tracks, from early jungle to Calvin Harris
\n\u201cPhat as fuck.\u201d This was how jungle legend Gavin King \u2013 AKA Aphrodite \u2013 described the powerful bass capabilities of his Amiga 1200 home computer in a 90s interview. Several decades later, it remains in his studio. With its drab grey buttons, it looks more suited to tax returns, but Amiga machines are instrumental in electronic music as we know it.
\n\u201cThe thing about the Amiga bassline is that it was constant volume, it didn\u2019t waver,\u201d King says now, \u201cso when you pulled it up to the maximum volume that you could press on to vinyl, it made it, well, phat as fuck.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was grey, ugly and had 0.0128% of an iPhone\u2019s memory. But the Amiga 500 defied its limitations to power a series of astonishing dance tracks, from early jungle to Calvin Harris \u201cPhat as fuck.\u201d This was how jungle legend Gavin King \u2013 AKA Aphrodite \u2013 described the powerful bass capabilities of his Amiga 1200 …<\/p>\n

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