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First! Brilliant video mate

I want to like the video, but its at 666 likes and that feels wrong hahaha, Great song!

irremplaçables. On n'a jamais plus revu çà lov lov lov

Codek and Telex✔️

Beautiful ambience. Subscribed and looking forward to more smooth jams! :)

Bomb track!

Thanks, Jake.

Thanks for sharing it

Mona Soyoc une des plus belles voix du monde. Kas Product est grand ! Définitivement !

I bought this album in Germany.

adorooo

x1.25

RIP Spatz!!your electronic sounds was amazing!!!!

gilles le guen Great track ! Classic Kas Product dark riff. And super catchy pop hook for the chorus ! well done !

Codek is the brainchild of Jean-Marie Salaun who grew up in Paris influenced by the folklore of the inner city. In 1978 he joined art rock group SpionS alongside Gregory Davidow and recorded two singles. Diving into the Paris post punk scene he met Claude Arto and designed the artwork for Claude’s single on Celluloid “Kwai Systeme / Betty Boop.” Robin Scott (M “Pop Music”) had produced the SpionS first single and wanted to collaborate further. With Claude, Jean-Marie wrote “Me Me Me”, intended for a choir, for M. Then SpionS split and Robin was off to Switzerland to record an album to follow-up his hit single. That left Jean-Marie alone in London, where he began working as Codek, a play on the brand name Kodak The “Me Me Me” single was released by MCA Records in 1980. Back in Paris, now with some studio experience, Celluloid Records hired Jean-Marie to produce records for Artefact and Les Orphelins. Over the next 2 years he began working on ideas for the next Codek single “Closer / “Tam Tam” “Closer” started its life as an electric baseline played by Jean-Marie. Claude Arto sequenced the floating synthesizers. Laurent Grangier and Frédéric Lapierre of reggae band Immigration Act played the horns. The lyrics “Hard to say. Easy to do. We don’t need to say what we do” were a statement on creation as narration expressed Jean-Marie’s ennui, “I’m tired with it.” “Tam Tam” was inspired by Burundi drummers playing on the plaza in front of Beaubourg where the song was recorded. Jean-Marie enlisted one of the drummers from the circle, Georges Atta Dikalo, to lay down percussion for the song. The female singers were from the French Caribbean and added falsetto tribal chants. JM was part of the the African night scene in Paris, remixing Xalam’s “Kanu” and Touré Kunda's “Salaly Muhamed.” Claude achieved complex rhythmic patterns using a modular synthesizer and heavy processing. Jean-Marie recorded himself beating his chest for the thump noises. The recording of “Tam Tam” and “Closer” spanned over two years. They started on 16-track in Studio d'Auteuil, where JM blew the woofers, before resuming in Studio Centre Georges Pompidou with an added 8-track recorder. Jean-Marie was producing other bands, and a lot of this was recorded on "borrowed" studio time. The single was released in 1981 on West African Music, a tiny label from the Ivory Coast, and was re-released a year later by Island Records in the UK (where the B-side was re-named “Tim Toum”). Both tracks were staples in the DJ sets of Beppe Loda and Daniele Baldelli, finding a spiritual home in the Cosmic scene of Italy.

I adore Mona

Lyrics please. I can not find anywhere

Great Googly Moogly...at first I thought that strip was on tha Drumtraks

Fun song

hi im dylan you good baby?

La vache, un Dorothée electro dark wave... j'adore beaucoup de titres de ce groupe mais la c'est moche . passer du Never Come Back à ça ?

Fucks sake...

Please, someone knows the lyrics?

I am a beautiful person.

i did not know until now that she also played the guitar. this is fucking radge!

Dioses.

yes french! Claude Arto from Mathematiques Modernes frenc electro band on programming.

CODEK is French , recorded at " studio d`Auteuil " in Paris

pop rock

It's 33, so what is this 45 Tours on the label.

i think they are french discogs.com/artist/Codek

No way. I had both drum mashines. A Drumtracks and a 808 and they are toooooooooo different. The 808 was famous for Hip Hop and R&B while the Drumtraks was famous for HiNRG and Italo Disco. Just check out the old Bobby Orlando titles. But the Bass Drum of the 808 was the pure hell. It killed my freaking Bose speakers..hahaha.

one of the worst sounding drum machines ever. SCI DID make a few gems - but this sure wasn't one of 'em... :(

Great playing! I have a YC-30, but its portamento strip is in bad shape, very intermittent. If anyone knows where I can get a replacement strip please send me a private message. Thanks!

LOVE that snare at :58!

I just dont understand people with great machines like this posting the worst rhythms imaginable. No offence intended dude, but that was a god awful demo and probably the worst rhythm I have ever heard from this machine. Your video does nothing to enhance the Drumtrax, so why bother uploading drivel

DONNY OSMOND USED IT IN.... " CRAZY HORSES" ....1972 !!

sound like roland tr 808 or 909 !

@MARANTZamp True, but it's $400 less you need to spend on hardware. When it comes down to actually making -music-, and not having an old piece of kit for posterity and the tactile experience, the difference is completely negligible.

This wasn't the first sample-based drum machine, but it was probably the first one to be American-made. I would imagine the LinnDrum is still easier to use, though.

do you know anywhere i can get more information on this yamaha yc-30 organ. im trying to find some because i own one & would like to know more about it. thank you anyone

This just might be the coolest song I've ever heard in my life.

@taigkyo but they used sequencers. sure it wasnt on a computer but almost the same.

@TheStoryWeLive, For some reason, I don't envision many albums were made in 1984 using the Drumtraks and "Ableton to mix dumbass, or any DAW".

This is perfect for New Order songs.

@SonicMMM Yeah i know but i also do know that he actually used the Drumtraks a lot as well :) And yes, he even used the Oberheim Line of drum computers in addition, too.

@Woefiej They came with the organ.

@beatz04 Prince used the Linn line of drum machines actually.

It needs more cowbell

"may peace prevail on earth" look on the PCB inside :-)