Ova Doce - 'Feel The Rush (Reach To The Sky)' - VFS017 - 192mp3 clip by Vinyl Fanatiks published on 2020-02-02T21:52:41Z BUY NOW >>> https://www.vinylfanatiks.co.uk/product/ova-doce-rediscovered-01-ep-limited-cherry-red-vinyl-vfs017 Nathan first got into music around 1987/1988 when he bought a Casio SK1 and started messing about on it. A couple of years later in 1990 he bought himself a Fostex X30 4 Track and actually started to make tracks, Acid House tracks to be precise, though he adds “If you heard some of them you wouldn’t want to hear more than 4 seconds!” It wasn’t till 1991 when his mate Jez Allen Smith bought himself an Amiga and together the two of them formed 'Pennywise The Profit', an early hardcore duo, creating bedroom demos and learning their trade and the limitations of an Amiga, when he started to make progress. By 1992 the band had disbanded and the Amiga was now on a two week rota with Jez having it for two weeks and Nathan for the following two weeks; this arrangement went on throughout 1992 until 1995. By 1992 Nathan had settled on the name Ova Doce and had got himself set up at home. Alongside the aforementioned Amiga, which was pimped out with 2MB of RAM, he was running a sampling program called Techno Sound Turbo, alongside Octamed 4, bouncing down his ideas on cassette tape using his Fostex 4 Track. During 1992 and 1993 Nathan would go on to fill numerous cassette tapes with tracks, ideas and sketches which he has kept, which all had their own handmade cover. His first track by himself was ‘Feel The Rush (Reach For The Sky)’ which ended up being the lead track on his self-funded debut EP. The track actually samples Van Morrison tune called ‘Wavelength’. Nathan explains the story behind this unusual source of audio “My Dad loved Van Morrison, he was his favourite artist, so I decided to sample it to annoy him! My Dad wasn’t keen about the rave scene so I thought it would be funny to make a tune with Van Morrison in it to see how he would react”. “How did he react?” I ask, keen to know how this anarchy played out “My Dad found it funny actually; he just couldn’t understand how I got Van Morrison onto one of my tracks. It baffled him!” he replies. “What about the ‘Feel The Rush’ sample, where is that from? It reminds me of an old tape I had back in the day” I ask. It takes Nathan a while to recall this bit of info, so he emails me after the interview “I'd totally forgotten about the MC I'd sampled for ‘Feel the Rush’. He was an MC at Shelley's that always rocked the party. He was an event organiser who picked up the mic to do some shoutouts and then stayed on the mic for the rest of the night. His name was MC Neville and a guy from a local record shop around my way said that Neville had heard the track and was furious, thought it was taking the piss and would like a word! The other guys behind the counter were laughing so I don't know how much truth there was in it and I've not tried to find out since”. “So, it was coming up to my 21st birthday and I asked my parents for some money, so I could get a record pressed of my music. They gave me £300 towards it. I was constantly making tunes when it was my turn to have the Amiga, so by this point I had enough music to make an EP. Thing is, I didn’t have a DAT machine or know anyone who had one, so I went down to the cutting house with the Amiga and recorded the tracks down to DAT there. Anyway, when it came to doing ‘Feel The Rush’ I had filled up all the outputs on Octamed as there were only 4! We had brought a keyboard down with us, so I had to play the bassline to that tune live onto the master. The guys at the cutting house knew we were a bunch of amateurs, so they let us do what we want, thankfully!” https://www.vinylfanatiks.co.uk https://www.vinylfanatiks.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/vinylfanatiks https://www.instagram.com/vinylfanatiks/ https://www.twitter.com/vinylfanatiks https://soundcloud.com/vinylfanatiks https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vinylfanatiks Genre Hardcore Comment by TRAUMA POW !!! 2020-02-13T04:57:06Z