With his first proper record in three years (the Moving Mountains EP) set to drop tomorrow via Ghostly, we thought we’d ask Michna to take us on a guided tour of each track alongside an exclusive stream…
After relistening to NIN’s Broken, then [their remix EP] Fixed, I quickly found myself searching for old Trent Reznor studio interviews circa 1992. Eighty dollars and one week later I was the proud owner of a Zoom 9030 effects processor. To create the noisy lead synth line in “Titanium Glaciers,” I ran my MicroKorg into the 9030 then into a broken Fender guitar amp. Once I had a riff going I then mic’d the amp with a portable tape recorder to get more saturated tape filth. The drums were also run to tape then thru my Eventide Harmonizer.
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My neighbor recently won the New York Lotto and we talked about how he said it’s not going to change him. He’s a teacher and exclaimed, “What would I do? Sit around in a mansion all day? That just isn’t a job.” I kind of agreed, cause he is a simple man, and said “Yea and blowing it on a Lambo wouldn’t do much good either.” He said, “You know, everybody wants it exotic.”
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I still like to imagine that the universe is a flat plane floating in space and you can actually ride the edge of it forever.
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I’ve listened to Goldie’s Timeless many many times. I always knew it was produced primarily by Rob Playford and in a rare studio interview, he revealed he was using an E-Mu Vintage Keys synth. A week and $200 later, I found myself scrolling thru a dial that contains some of the best new agey, Enya-like artificial voices I own.
