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LowTech

Back to 1993 I was involved with music and had me totally off of computers. This year, I started believing in a group of electronic music, a school friend also liked the idea. We were still in high school (around 88-91) and Alexander when I started making the first tests with the keyboards.

started to really take the idea of forming a group seriously, and the entry of Neto (keyboards) and Orlando (vocals), the group was actually gaining ground. We had at the time the instruments, a band and some of our songs, all the techno-pop style (now called electro) like Kraftwerk, New Order and Depeche Mode, including covers of those bands did.

But of course we did not have the same equipment as them. Our instruments were amateurs, for example, belonged to a collection of the band keyboard Casio DM-100 (with a super sampler 8bits), two Yamaha PSR-500 (and then some others of that generation) and a sequencer QX-5, which stored the data on tape cassette (!). Of course we had to do magic with these instruments and the band's name had everything to do with the resources the time: LowTech.

Like I said before, we got to do covers that were very well done. I can remember now Telephone Call by Kraftwerk and Bizarre Love Triangle New Order, which (within the extent possible) were faithful and well produced. Unfortunately I do not have any record the sound track, maybe some other member of the band still has something saved, and today I regret and I feel that we were stupid not to save.

The group did not last long, but it lasted long enough to do the first show in a theater and we play in some clubs in Bethlehem People were suspicious about what they saw, or simply did not understand what it was, some thought it was playback (but we played really). Further in 1993 which had a strong prejudice against electronic music and the city was much of the boom of heavy metal bands of rock music and funky (as in not in Funk Funk Carioca), but could be the pioneers of an idea and a musical style in Bethlehem and I am very proud of having done so.