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Did Stephen Morris really use an aerosol can on She's Lost Control?!

posted 11 years ago by scubadivergeek
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In the scene depicting the recording session for She's Lost Control, the actor playing Stephen Morris is shown using an aerosol spray to make the rhythmic "chhh, chhh" sound on the track. Does anyone know if that's really what was used? It sure doesn't sound like it, though I imagine, they could have taken such a sound and processed it any number of ways. We know Martin Hannett had one of the very first digital delays on the market (allegedly helped design it, actually) and I think that's what you're hearing some of the songs, like Disorder, for instance.

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[–] jaymzhimself 8 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's a gimmick for the movie, because in the live shows of Joy Division on YouTube you always hear the sound coming from some sort of tambourine. And if it would have been used, they could have easily just sampled the sound instead of the way they were recording in it in Control.

[–] scubadivergeek 8 years ago

<<And if it would have been used, they could have easily just sampled the sound instead of the way they were recording in it in Control. >>

Not in 1979-1980, they couldn't. Sampling was new technology back then. At the time, the Fairlight might have been the only digital sampler available, that cost well over $20,000. Few musicians could afford them. The ones who used it either used one that was owned by a studio (usually one of the really nice studios in LA, NYC or London), or they were musicians signed to big labels, who ended up having to pay for it out of their royalties. So I don't think Joy Division would have been used digital sampling. New Order probably did, but I doubt Joy Division had the means to make that part of their sound.