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‘We took the bassline from Mozart’: how Double 99 made Ripgroove

Tim Liken, producer I was 19 when we made Ripgroove. It was 1997 and we had all this equipment we didn’t know how to use.

Tim Liken, producer

I was 19 when we made Ripgroove. It was 1997 and we had all this equipment we didn’t know how to use. We literally had the manuals in our hands, saying: “How do we do this?” It was such a steep learning curve, but that kind of naivety is important: making mistakes, fumbling around and doing things we just wouldn’t do now.

We spent, second movement – 1785 had lots of jams, you know!

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