Third Side (Steffi & The Analogue Cops) Equipment Guide

Steffi has been especially busy of late, much of her schedule’s been taken up with crafting her much anticipated Panorama Bar 05 Mix CD for release this May while she’s also been embarking on a live project with The Analogue Cops, that hardware loving music folk have come to know as Third Side. At the start of this year we documented the outer reaches of Third Side’s sonic journey on the blog noting their live performance for Boiler Room Berlin here, showing their computer free, 100% improvised live set that we’re bringing to Farringdon for the trio’s UK debut in Room One this Saturday. You can get a comprehensive understanding of the plethora of modified hardware and toys that make up Third Side’s performances in their equipment guide below, as the outfit tell us how they enhance the rich combination of their live music with the electronic. Professional as ever - just wait till their thunderous techno beats import you to the dancefloor this weekend. The Third Side's Equipment Guide Today we're going to describe to you how we prepare and how we perform as Third Side, live. When we make music in the studio we use more machines and more outboard, but when the time comes to conceive a live performance we must deal with space and weight limitation; but the production ethics and aesthetics remains the same. All the arrangements, the production and the rehearsal are done at the Restoration headquarters in Berlin. We have been changing different set-ups from the first time we performed live, but the most important thing has always been that we don't use any computers. All the sequencing, the processing and the sound generation is always performed on hardware. For the sequencer, we started with a little Yamaha Q10, but now we are using an MPC1000, that has also substituted our old beloved Roland SP606. What we have always used is a Roland Tr909 for the core of our rhythm, supported by a Korg Electribe Es1-Mk1 on which we have loaded a bunch of crispy extra drums. The bass comes from an Acidic Xoxbox, while most of the leads spring out from a powerful Yamaha Dx-100, a little monster for Fm-Synthesis. We always bring with us a bunch of pedals and effects and what we use most is an Eventide Space Factory and a T.C Electronics Flashback delay. Both sound clean and very rich. The latest addition is a Mode Machines F-106 filter, that sounds great when applied to our samples. Catch Third Side, live in Room this Saturday next to Craig Richards, John Talabot and Marco Shuttle. For more info and tickets go here.