Alain_Patrick, Aug 19, 2007
Luckily, I had the chance to find out about one of the tunes that influenced me on the early nineties - "Stella" (whose name I promised myself I would give my daughter one day, but unfortunately its author Rolf Ellmer A.K.A. Jam El Mar stole my idea and did it first, he has a daugher named Stella). This classic from 1992 was conceived back when the word Trance had a completely different meaning - something to do with a hypnotic environment, a warm atmosphere, regardless the 'label' the music in question would get from the specialized media or the DJs.
The German producer responsible for it mentionned above which was by the way part of Jam & Spoon, Mr. Jam 'El Mar' (born Rolf Ellmer) shared with us his thoughts about "Stella": "Well, how did it happen? It was just a lucky moment. At that time, I was a newbie to this, like a virgin (he laughs). I just did what I liked. You need the blessing of the moment.
Jam El Mar used a Oberheim X-pander (The reso-sound), a Wavestation (for the Pad), Procussion-EMU, an old Akai S-1000 Acoustic Guitar sample, very common those days (to simulate the Guitar sound), and Moby´s legendary "Go" beat loop. "I had this samples of the vocalist Tayah still around - "Hold me... Love-me(...)" - and a Proteus to make the Piano line, that´s it..."
According to Jam El Mar, when Mark Spoon (Markus Löffel R.I.P. 1966-2006) came in that afternoon in the studio, "Stella" was halfway finished - so they did the final things together. Then, Renaat got the playback from the Jam & Spoon duo, this is how everything started.
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