Producer : Pure Stain
Written by Pure Stain and Johsen Johnson Ong
Arranged by Pure Stain
Recorded and mixed by Pure Stain
CD Cover Design by Pure Stain and Jef Tan 6
Styling by Ernest Seah
Photography by Dave Wee
Recorded at GMR Studio
Music Influences : Electronic, Heavy Rock, Dance, Break Beats, Drum and Bass, Blues, Broadway, Ska.
Bands that have influenced my songwriting and arrangement : The Cure, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Filter, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Duran Duran, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, RadioHead and U2.
HOME STUDIO GEAR LIST
Spirit FX16 Mixer with built in Lexicon EFX unit
Focusrite Platinum Voice Master Pre Amp
Yamaha FX550 Guitar Effects Processor
ART Tube MP Pre Amp
Aphex 104 Exciter
Lexicon MPX1 EFX unit
Alesis Midiverb 4
Alesis 3630 compressor
Alesis ADAT w/ LRC and RMB metering bridge
Yamaha CBX-D3 converter unit
Spirit Absolute 2 monitor speakers driven by Yamaha amplifier
Quested F11 monitors
Boston Acoustics BA635 powered monitorsApple Mac 6100/66 running MOTU Performer 5.5 with G3-240 processor upgrade
Apple iMac 233 with a whole load of peripherals for lyrics writing and CD sampler cover designing
KORG X2 Workstation
Yamaha SU10 sampler
Roland MC303
Oberhein Matrix 1000
Roland Octopad Trigger
Sony MD Recorder
Groove Tubes AM51 mic
AKG C414 U/BLS mic
Neumann TLM 103
Audio Technica AT4033a
Audix OM5s
We write music at Clifford's home studio (see equipment list on the left) and mainly work with Raymond coming out with rhythm structures on his guitars or piano and Clifford humming away, writing lyrics as well. Sometimes we work with lyrics first, and write later. All English tracks are penned by Clifford while the Mandarin lyrics are mostly written by Johsen Johnson Ong of House Cat Music Publishing, our publishing boss.
And by the way, the listed studio on this page, GMR Studio happens to be the name of Cliffords Home Studio. (Friends of Clifford's, have you figured the abbreviations out yet? Ha ha ha).
We have been writing music since the mid 80s, with Clifford starting music composition in 1985 after being influenced by Duran Duran and Depeche Mode. And we listened to bands like Aha, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure and many other British bands. They will always have this cutting edge in their music that never fails to impress us.
We started writing music for Broadcast (jingles and stuff) for a while now, and have written music for MTV Asia's AIDS awareness spots, MTV Asia's promos, MTV Asia's CAN, ITV's Planet X programme, ITV's Extreme Asia Opening Song, National Kidney Foundation's Videos, and have scored music for a couple of indie films at home in Singapore.
Clifford is a full time sound designer, and has won a few industrial awards at Promax Asia for his involvement in the MTV Promo spots for 97/98/99. And at the Asian Television Awards 99, the MTV Asia programme which he is invovled in the mixing and Audio Post work, MTV Screen, beat the other competitors to win the coveted Best Light Entertainment Programme.
Raymond is a full time Sales Engineer with Music Plaza's Combo Shop, a music supply shop owned by Yamaha Japan. He is a digital equipment specialist in the company.
Raymond's passion is the synthesiser and piano, as well the guitars and bass.
Clifford programmes most of the tracks written by Pure Stain, and fronts the band as well.
