Anders Enger Jensen | Leya's Daughter (Roland SC-55 Leya's Song Remake) @AndersEngerJensen | Uploaded 5 years ago | Updated 12 hours ago
This is a remix or remake of the old and slightly famous demo song made for the Roland SC-55 range of GM modules. Adrian Scott initially wrote the song in 1989 as a demo for the W-30 Music Workstation, sampling the guitar with playing noises. He also needed a melody and his friend and vocalist, Penny Dryer did a vocal part. However, since the W-30 had limited sampling memory, he could only record the "doo" sound plus a line at the end of the song.
Roland's team back then was thrilled and wanted the song and the doo sample. And thus the famous «Voice Oohs» was born, which have been a fixed sound in every GM compliant module, synth and soundset ever since. You can hear Adrian talk about all these and more in this video from Roland: youtu.be/gWRy81QuOEU
Original W-30 demo: http://www.synthmania.com/w-30.htm (first link)
SC-55 version: youtu.be/iT4Elk6GeqE
The song was made as a homage to a great demo that had a huge impact on every kid who listened to the Sound Canvas series back in the early 90s, and the premise is: "What if Leya grew up and had a daughter?".
Ideally I'd have footage of one woman and a girl in all ages, but since I only have access to stock content online, it's a little bit of everything here. Just a FYI. Stock content is provided by www.videoblocks.com.
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/leyas-daughter
Thanks to all my Patreons, fans and supporters. :)
Patreon: patreon.com/eoxstudios
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
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This is a remix or remake of the old and slightly famous demo song made for the Roland SC-55 range of GM modules. Adrian Scott initially wrote the song in 1989 as a demo for the W-30 Music Workstation, sampling the guitar with playing noises. He also needed a melody and his friend and vocalist, Penny Dryer did a vocal part. However, since the W-30 had limited sampling memory, he could only record the "doo" sound plus a line at the end of the song.
Roland's team back then was thrilled and wanted the song and the doo sample. And thus the famous «Voice Oohs» was born, which have been a fixed sound in every GM compliant module, synth and soundset ever since. You can hear Adrian talk about all these and more in this video from Roland: youtu.be/gWRy81QuOEU
Original W-30 demo: http://www.synthmania.com/w-30.htm (first link)
SC-55 version: youtu.be/iT4Elk6GeqE
The song was made as a homage to a great demo that had a huge impact on every kid who listened to the Sound Canvas series back in the early 90s, and the premise is: "What if Leya grew up and had a daughter?".
Ideally I'd have footage of one woman and a girl in all ages, but since I only have access to stock content online, it's a little bit of everything here. Just a FYI. Stock content is provided by www.videoblocks.com.
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/eox-studios/leyas-daughter
Thanks to all my Patreons, fans and supporters. :)
Patreon: patreon.com/eoxstudios
As with many others, I use DistroKid for all my official album releases to all the available streaming services. If you want to try them yourself and get a 7% discount off your first year by using this link:
distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158
![Kim Wilde - You Came [80s Power Pop Mix]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rjXtcMTwgVU/hqdefault.jpg "Kim Wilde - You Came [80s Power Pop Mix]
After making that little shorts video with all the first chords played on 55 synthesizers, I finally had time and energy to tackle the full song and video. Here is Kim Wildes You Came, beefed and dressed up in all sorts of pastels and wonderful glory the 80s could muster!
Kim (and her team) already did a bang up job with the original, so it was daunting to even start doing something with this song, but I hopefully added some extra flair and oompf while paying respect to the original craftmanship.
Its actually a significant use of reFX Nexus4 and their FM, 80s and 90s expansion packs, but also a lot of Yamaha TX816 (Full DX Glory!), Ensoniq, Roland, Korg and Alesis synths all the way. I used the original album version (or maybe the Shep Pettibone US Radio Edit, hard to tell after all this time as the original files I downloaded were changed) as stems for the vocals, using Vocalremovers.org to separate the files. A little touch up and polishing to remove as much as the artefacts from this process and fattening up the choruses were done, but obviously having the original master recordings would have been best.
WHERE TO BUY/LISTEN:
Buy on BandCamp: https://eoxstudios.bandcamp.com/album/kim-wilde-you-came-80s-power-pop-mix
Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/eox-studios/kim-wilde-you-came-80s-power (Instrumental only due to copyright issues)
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https://distrokid.com/vip/seven/695158")
