This is Dunedin, New Zealand, not Dunedin FLA. I lived there, attended school, then went to university, during the era of the “Dunedin Sound”—the late '70s and '80s. Bands like The Clean, The Verlaines, The Orange (all definite articles), Straightjacket Fits, Toy Love, The Chills, to mention a few, created a distinctive sound.
This track tries to capture the jangling guitars, muffled vocals and thumping drums drifting from The Cook, The Oriental or The Gardens (what’s with all the definite articles?)—the local student watering holes, or wafting over the city from practice rooms on George Street, or someone’s student flat bedroom.
Here I’ve recorded chord samples strummed upward and downward on an electric guitar then added to an Ableton drum kit to be MIDIfied. There are also bass VSTs and an Ableton drumkit. I’ve used Klevgrand’s Jussi to simulate a slightly strangled vocalist. I’ve further mangled the guitar, bass and vocals with a granulator.
