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The 2020 Vision label happened like many events in life seem to. A group of friends experimenting, having fun, stumbled into an idea through chance, or perhaps what appears to be chance. We had lived in the middle of a field for the past five years; to ask how we got there would be another story. In that field we had a house, a fairly normal looking house, and in that house we started to build an electronic sound lab.
Many very starnge things happened, but that's a... Read more
The 2020 Vision label happened like many events in life seem to. A group of friends experimenting, having fun, stumbled into an idea through chance, or perhaps what appears to be chance. We had lived in the middle of a field for the past five years; to ask how we got there would be another story. In that field we had a house, a fairly normal looking house, and in that house we started to build an electronic sound lab.
Many very starnge things happened, but that's a different story. We were all mid twenties, enthusiastic and into music, technology and having a good time. As we lived in the middle of fields, to be more precise Rhubarb fields (and world-class rhubarb at that) we seemed to attract many people that didn't live in the middle of a field. Rhubarb tourists. They came mainly because you can make as much noise as you like in the middle of fields and we like noise. We partied from Friday till Monday and sometimes Tuesday and at the end of the chaos, we tidied up and put pen to paper as it were, or in this case we put ideas to DAT.
The DATs multiplied, especially through Carl who spent his entire time making tracks, until I received a Sony Playstation from Christmas 1996, but that's another story. We also had a friend called Huggy, who didn't live in the middle of a field but that didn't matter as he made noise wherever he liked anyway. The DAT collection grew. But the sounds on the DATs seemed different from teh sounds the rest of the world were putting on theirs, perhaps because of the rhubarb, perhaps it was because of Carl having been bought a Moog at 13 and being exposed to Tomita from an early age or perhaps it was because I'm a little weird but either way they sounded different. As they were different they were hard really to place on other labels so we decided to set our own label up.
The chance event I mentioned before came to pass one evening when Carl, Huggy and myself were tinkering around in a lazy manner. We had a track up and were working different effects and filters, when we finally stopped and looked at the DAT, we had recorded exactly twenty minutes, twenty seconds worth of tweaking. Huggy immediately blurted out, "Wow, call it 20/20 Vision". So we did. Then as the days passed I thought to myself that's far too good to waste on a track that will never see the light of day. I'll call the label that, and I did and that is the story.
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