Jon Marsh

In an article titled "The Beloved" from Sound On Sound (March 1993), Jon Marsh mentioned, "The most daunting thing was the S1100 and the whole C-Lab package with the Atari. Now I look back and it's like anything; you learn how to do it, it becomes second nature and you become very fast and adept at doing it. What was really good was that both me and Helena set the gear up and we got to understand it together." This confirms that Jon Marsh used the Akai S1100.

"We use a Korg T3 as a master keyboard. We've bought a lot of disks for it and still use a lot of the sounds. Some can be boring, but it's an easy machine to edit even though it's not very immediate. There's an old Juno 60 MIDI'd up, which we use an awful lot. That's my favourite thing in the world, mainly because it's the first synth I had. It's so hands-on — slide the sliders and away you go. Then there's an 808, a Prophet VS — which is very good, but it's difficult getting hold of cartridges for it — and a MiniMoog that we use on nearly all the bass sounds and quite a lot of the sequences."

"We took the original vocal and used the S1000 to sample every line and then time-stretch it up to 118bpm. Jon isn't too happy with it because it's lost a certain human quality from the singing, and I'm not sure if it's something we'll attempt again. It's frustrating sometimes when you come to do a remix and it's going really well and you think you could turn it into a whole new song, but as long as the ideas keep coming we'll keep remixing them."