An audio alchemist of legendary proportions, Alan Wilder is a former and influential member of Depeche Mode whose signature sound has shaped electronic music for more than two decades. When he revived his latest electronic music project, Recoil, things had changed. I had to get my head around using the new equipment and software that had been developed during that time, he recalls. I chose Logic right away, invested in new Macs and started making the album. Wilder cranks out precise electric beats and heavily tweaked instrumentation, but to him music making is organic, not digital. Theres no master plan at the outset of a project, he says. Really Im just trying to create instrumental pieces of music that have some kind of atmosphere.
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