Joe Webb took the time to listen and offer constructive criticism, a kindness remembered when Cozmo was shopping the Positive Messenger project in 1983. The only person that would was a guy at a tiny label named Reflection Records by the name of Joe Webb. This is the song that set Newcleus into motion! It was a version of this that Cozmo would shop during the Summer of ’80, searching in vain for a record company that would listen to it without his leaving his one and only copy. They had not been heard for over 20 years. Recently found on the original cassette that they had been dubbed to, much of the tape had been recorded over and relabeled so these recordings were long thought lost forever. The only instruments used were the Electro Harmonix DRM16, a non-programmable primitive drum machine, the Electro Harmonix Mini-Synthesizer, a crude little synth made out of plastic, metal and cardboard, and the Electro Harmonix Vocoder, the only one of the 3 that would later be used for Newcleus recordings. These were all recorded in the Summer of 1980 and represent some of Cozmo’s (before he partnered with Chilly B) earliest attempts at making music. Of course, each additional generation or layer of recordings would add noise and lose quality, until the final result would be very high in noise and very low in fidelity. This was done over and over until the full arrangement of the song was recorded. These very crude recordings were made by first laying an initial track of drums and bass to a standard stereo cassette deck, then playing that tape back while adding an additional performance of synth or vocal and recording both simultaneously to a second cassette deck.
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