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Boris FX
Sound Forge“I don't know any other programs. Once I change something, I can never un-change it. I can only see the waves.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Burial has said he made his tunes in Soundforge, a basic wave editor, with no sequencer: "I can only see the waves." The Wire and Blackdown interviews are mostly about records he loves, such as Foul Play's Being With You remix, D'Cruze's Lonely, Groove Chronicles' Stone Cold and Digital Mystikz' Misty Winter.
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Foul Play
Being With You (Foul Play Remix)“My favorite tunes were underground and moody but with killer vocals: 'Let Go' by Teebee, 'Being with you remix' by Foul Play.”
Said in The Wire: Burial, unedited transcript (Mark Fisher, issue 286), December 2007
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D'Cruze
LonelySaid in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Foul Play
Dubbing You“I've got this amazing old Foul Play tune that I love called "Dubbing You" - it sounds just like an El-B tune.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Groove Chronicles
Stone Cold“That tune's never left my head.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Has said they use
Boris FX
Sound Forge“I don't know any other programs. Once I change something, I can never un-change it. I can only see the waves.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
Records he loves
Has said they love
Foul Play
Being With You (Foul Play Remix)“My favorite tunes were underground and moody but with killer vocals: 'Let Go' by Teebee, 'Being with you remix' by Foul Play.”
Said in The Wire: Burial, unedited transcript (Mark Fisher, issue 286), December 2007
Has said they love
D'Cruze
LonelySaid in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
Has said they love
Foul Play
Dubbing You“I've got this amazing old Foul Play tune that I love called "Dubbing You" - it sounds just like an El-B tune.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
Has said they love
Groove Chronicles
Stone Cold“That tune's never left my head.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
Has said they love
Digital Mystikz
Misty Winter“I really want to remix Misty Winter by Digital Mystikz. Please. It's the baddest tune ever made.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Digital
Special Mission“There was a tune on there by Digital called "Special Mission.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Adam F
Metropolis“I'd like to make the 'Metropolis' of dubstep.”
Said in Blackdown: soundboy burial (Burial interview by Martin Clark), March 2006
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Has said they love
Teebee
Let GoSaid in The Wire: Burial, unedited transcript (Mark Fisher, issue 286), December 2007
Has said they love
The Future Sound of London
Papua New Guinea“Old hardcore tunes would throw these sounds in, anything to create the rush, descent into another world, like Papua New Guinea by Future Sound of London.”
Said in The Wire: Burial, unedited transcript (Mark Fisher, issue 286), December 2007
On his nightstand
Has said they love
M. R. James
Collected Ghost Stories“I found a book of M R James ghost stories.”
Said in The Wire: Burial, unedited transcript (Mark Fisher, issue 286), December 2007
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Questions
About Burial's gear.
What software does Burial use?
In a 2006 Blackdown interview Burial said he sticks to Soundforge, does not use a sequencer and places drums by eye on the waveform. In The Wire in 2007 he confirmed he made Untrue in Sound Forge too.
Does Burial use a sequencer?
No. He told Blackdown in 2006 that he does not have a sequencer, that his drums are not necessarily in time, and that a sequencer would make his tunes sound rubbish.
What records inspired Burial?
He has named Foul Play's Being With You remix and Dubbing You, D'Cruze's Lonely, Groove Chronicles' Stone Cold, Digital's Special Mission, Adam F's Metropolis, Teebee's Let Go and The Future Sound of London's Papua New Guinea.
What is Burial's favourite dubstep tune?
In 2006 he told Blackdown that Digital Mystikz' Misty Winter was the tune he most wanted to remix, calling it the baddest tune ever made.
What book does Burial read?
He told The Wire in 2007 that he found a book of M R James ghost stories on the South Bank, and that the story Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad scared him as a child.
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Burial is William Bevan, the South London producer behind Burial and Untrue on Hyperdub. He has given very few interviews, and in them he talks less about equipment than about the jungle and UK garage records that shaped him. This guide covers the audio editor he made his first two albums in, plus the records and the book he has named.
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