New Order – Technique
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 1989 album Technique.
Music from Technique
Artists on Technique
Gear Used On Technique
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of New Order – Technique (1989). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Modular Synthesizers used by Peter Hook on Technique
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Can be clearly seen in the video at 2 minutes 5 seconds.
This along with the TX81Z was heavily used during the writing of the Technique album 1989.
It is most likely this equipment belonged to New Order rather than just Peter Hook.
Stephen Morris
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Studio Equipment used by Stephen Morris on Technique
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"Technique was an interesting album because we’d moved on to Voyetras (fetches one), a rack-mounted synth. Midi came out so you could plug a keyboard into it.
Earlier, when we did with [producer] Stephen Hague to do True Faith he had a Drumulator Mk.1 which was a drum version of the Emulator, so it had compression on it. On the record it’s a drum machine and live I play a sample. It turned into the E-mu SP 12, which was the sampling drum machine that launched hip-hop. By the time we got to Technique we were still using those synths but we’d moved on to Akai samplers, loads of them.
So we had a Mac running Upbeat software, a simple drum machine and all these Akais. A lot of the things on Technique that sound natural are not. For Dream Attack, we were too lazy to play an acoustic guitar, so we sampled every note in the riff and programmed them individually. It was bonkers, one sampler per string!
Oh and before you could quantise things we’d sample every drum and reprogram the whole backing track out of these parts. I basically turned myself into a drum machine. When we did Technique it felt new and pioneering, but then everybody started doing it."