Walking in
Best known for his remix of The Egg’s Walking Away (think dancing car), Tocadisco - AKA Roman Boër - has become something of a go-to man when an artist needs a dancefloor-friendly reworking of one of their tracks. Future Music recently caught him at work in his Cologne facility, where he showed them the gear behind the music.
Synths
The MS-20 is another Korg piece, but Roman doesn’t have any great hankering for other vintage analogue hardware. “I’d be interested in some of the original Moog synths but the stability and reliability of the old gear puts me off,” he explains. Boër is more enthusiastic when it comes to discussing Lennardigital’s Sylenth1: “an amazing synth where every preset just sounds like a starting point for a track,” is the verdict.
Guitar
Roman may be known as an electronic musician, but his background is more ‘traditional’. “When I was ten years old my dad finally got sick of me banging on the kitchen pots and got me a tutor to learn the drums,” he recalls. “I learnt how to read drum score and eventually had a whole drum kit in my parents’ cellar. I guess then I started playing in bands doing covers of Guns N’ Roses and so on. During rehearsals the band would all swap instruments and mess around and this is how I learnt how to play guitar and then eventually a bit of piano.”
