Kirk Degiorgio

In a photo from Attackmagazine, Kirk Degiorgio is seen using the Native Instruments Maschine MKII, highlighting its role in his music production setup.

He says, ". I came back from Detroit, sold my record collection, got a few grand together and bought an Akai S950 sampler, a Roland D-5 as a master keyboard, a DAT machine, a Roland R-5, which was their latest drum machine at the time, and an Atari 1040 with Opcode Vision. So I had pretty good gear to start with and I locked myself away for six months to read manuals and teach myself."

He says, ". I came back from Detroit, sold my record collection, got a few grand together and bought an Akai S950 sampler, a Roland D-5 as a master keyboard, a DAT machine, a Roland R-5, which was their latest drum machine at the time, and an Atari 1040 with Opcode Vision. So I had pretty good gear to start with and I locked myself away for six months to read manuals and teach myself."

In a photo from Attack Magazine, Kirk Degiorgio is seen using the Akai Professional APC40.

He says, "but one thing I do know is that his 808 sounded different to any other 808 I’ve ever heard – he said he’d opened it up and adjusted a few trimpots."

He says, ". I came back from Detroit, sold my record collection, got a few grand together and bought an Akai S950 sampler, a Roland D-5 as a master keyboard, a DAT machine, a Roland R-5, which was their latest drum machine at the time, and an Atari 1040 with Opcode Vision. So I had pretty good gear to start with and I locked myself away for six months to read manuals and teach myself."

he says, "o you want to come in and add some ideas and stuff?’ So I went into Black Dog Towers, the studio, and again it was a very minimal setup – Atari, Matrix 1000, 808, Fostex mixer – and they said, ‘Go on then, just program some drums.’ They couldn’t really read music either so that was an even bigger influence on me, seeing those guys do it."