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// Pre-Band Recordings // 1992–1999
Dave Strand // Pre-Strand Recordings // Amiga 1200 // Cassette Tape // 1992–1999
Before The Strand officially formed in 1999, Dave Strand spent nearly a decade building his craft through a series of projects — from bedroom cassette recordings on an Amiga 1200 to paranormal-themed collaborations and early proto-Strand demos. This archive documents those formative years: the gear, the projects, and every track that survived.
Dave Strand's earliest solo project, created on an Amiga 1200 computer using OctaMed 8-bit sequencing software, triggering a DR660 drum machine via MIDI. Vocals were overlaid with a SM58 mic into a Mackie 1202 mixer, with vocal distortion added by a Zoom 9000 FX box, and recorded live to Audio Cassette Tape. Songs started being labeled with the filename 'The Strand', making it unclear what the first official Strand song actually is. Heavily influenced by the industrial music coming out of the Wax Trax record label in Chicago.
// Wax Trax-influenced industrial, recorded to cassette tape — the origins of The Strand