Paolo you are not only a musician. You are a time machine.

I made a Cassette tape for the car. Side A - 45 minutes of "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops" repeating. Side B - 45 minutes of "Iceblink Luck" repeating.

The early Cocteau Twins, specifically Heads over Heels, completely changed my life. Thank you for doing this, Paolo!

i love cocteau twins so much, especially garlands, something about garlands just scratches an itch in my brain, thank you for this nice lil video mister :)

your sound is so spot on, I fully expected to hear Liz Fraser’s angelic voice come in at any moment.

I've been a Cocteau Twins fan for years. He totally nails the sound.

No phony software emulators used here... The true hardware for an authentic production! Wonderful! :)

I've enjoyed the Twins since the mid-80s too. Thanks for this fun video romp!

We all know Paolo could nail Liz Frazier’s vocals

Maaaan Victorialand is such a classic. Personally my favourite of theirs as well! Great video as always!

It's amazing how you can dial up such authentic period production. Very clever.

Thumbs up before watching, because , well, it’s Paolo doing Cocteau Twins!

I had the pleasure of playing on a record made at the Cocteau Twins' studio in Richmond, London in the late 90s. I had a look inside the attic where they kept their gear, I found an Emu SP1200 but not a Drumulator.... guess they must have sold that by then. They let me use some of their guitars as well!

Nice job! I got to see them twice in about 5 months in Chicago. November of ‘90 and then again March of ‘91. Seeing them live was like seeing how all the pieces fit together.

THANK YOU!!!! I REALLY enjoyed seeing how their sound is made!

Love it! Super cool, really captures the period 🙌

Awesome!!! With 80’s effects !!! Thanks for sharing! ... the 4ad label had a great selection of bands back then and had my favorite artist/graphic designer Vaughan Oliver who worked and art directed all the covers for them. Very creative years !

Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Great and informative content in your videos!

you're always helping up to realize our dreams and thank you so much for this really.

Brilliantly done, very impressed, you totally nailed it

Excellent production again! You make it look so easy! Shoegaze and Cocteau Twins pretty much went under my radar all the 80s and 90s. I only really discovered Shoegaze (the genre that wouldn't die) in the early 2000s when I discovered a band named Bowery Electric, a short-lived band but still one of my favorite Shoegaze bands.

Love what you wrote for the end 💜 Such a pretty instrumental...

I swear this video came exactly on time. Totally into Cocteau twins right now. Just ordered a new modulation pedal. Awesome video!

Beautiful work. As an eighties Scottish teenager, this is really evocative.

These videos, and this genre of music are the absolute coolest!

This is so rad. I subscribed right away!

My best friend had a Drumulator growing up. Such a great machine. The snare sounds huge with the RMX16. More powerful than the kick. Vox sounds great. Nice relaxing Cocteau jam!

Great stuff. You nailed the sound perfectly and I loved how you used the classic reverb unit to get the snare sound.

Sounds really authentic- great with the use of the period gear to get the accurate sound. Excellent drums

Well this is first time i hear someone go so far with CT sound...i really like what you did here....big fan of CT

One of my favorite bands and this video was great. Love seeing the old gear in use.

Wow! thank you, Sir, for another great video filled with so much talent, knowledge and good taste! This work of love of yours is very appreciated!!!

The only you need is a Elisabeth with a heaven voice and its complete .

dream setup awesome video

I bought a Gallien Krueger 250ml last year to get that 80's sound.... The built-in chorus is AMAZING

You do a great job with the Guthrie / Raymonde sound, Paolo. Now if you could find a Dream Goddess Heaven Machine to cover Elizabeth Fraser's voice... You'd be a very rich man.

You are an amzing man - with an exceptionally god taste in all things music. I have a tip for you. Theres an old rackmountable Guitar preamp/processor from Roland called GP-100 They can do amazing fx-laden sounds,especially , chorus , reverb and echo sounds.And the clean fendery sounds are really good to. And they are fantastic for bass.Theres many on e-bay for sale.Every Indie-man should have at least one. I have two....:)

This is great, thank you so much!

I hear vocals in the last seconds or is it just my imagination. You do things on my mind.

Great return to 80's Paolo.

Very new to synth and the gubbins that come with it... Probably a bit too long in the tooth at 31, But I'm glad that I discovered your channel! Diolch!

A band never on my radar back in the day; I will give them more of a listen. 😍

I would love to see more videos like this, about various aspects of the sound of old bands

I swear I can hear a voice in your song! beautiful

Aw, Cocteau Twins... It's time to search for the good old recordings...

Yesss! No matter what, Paolo could get a good sound even from a bunch of pebbles and a plastic bag ;)

Was hoping you'd take a stab at some Cocteau style vocals! 🤪

Excellent job! Exactly what I was looking for. You nailed it! Thank you.

I read that they used to take the drum machines into a bunch of different amplifiers and effects to play live and the the engineers at the time talked them out of recording them that way. I would love to have heard that!

Simply awesome. You are a real magician.

Amazing sound

I loved The Cocteau's

Soooo cool, thanks!

Nothing to do... but to like! You are a master.

Guitar sound like "The Cure"" too ... great video !

Totally Fascinating video! Thank You!

Cool music well done!

All their albums sound good(IMO) and that is rare, Robin Guthrie, that sound!

Serpentskirt - wonderful track

Good job!

wish I could just hang out and jam with you every time I see your videos lol

Awesome!! Absolutely nailed it!!

Aloha - I'd go see you in concert !!!!

So good, I recently got a Roland MC-505 that I've been trying to manipulate enough to create drums sounds similar to these. Getting close, but your gear is epic!! Thanks for the video

Magnificent

Sound great Paolo!!!

i was justthinking about this when cherry lflavoured funk came on, how they got their sound just woke up and this was suggested to me i didn't look up thjeir gear or anything lol so sick!

impressive

My dear Paolo, you're the Doraemon of the synth community on YT! LOL XD ... look what the cat has dragged in...a Drumulator!! let's go for it ;) Cool vid and performance as usual. Auguri.

WTF! I'm also a child of the 70s, collect old synths and hardware, live The Cocteau Twins & wear Ralph Lauren polo shirts. I thought I was unique! Now I work at The Cocteau Twins parent label :)

Very nice sounds. Very useful.

ooo this is cool i did't know you love the Cocteau Twins !

Super video! I applauded for COP 4,000.00 👏

So cool! Thanks for this!

excellent.

amazing! I love Cocteau Twins and keep trying to get that sound on an old yamaha FX500 effects unit... :) thanks Paolo!

Great stuff!

I love your channel, mate!

amazing work, thank you

Obviously, they switched kit quite often, but /THE/ Cocteau Twins sound for me is with the Rock set of samples in the Drumulator.

One of the very few attempts at the 4AD Ivo Watts Russel Robin Guthrie sound that is in the ballpark

Well done. You nailed it! Now call Liz...

Cool relaxing... :) Shared around

Great job.

loving this content

Fascinating stuff. Also, I see you have one of those invisible plectrums that Bernard Edwards had!

Que lindo

wonderful

Get on, some nice vintage English reverberation! a classic :)

cool

Thank you DAVE !

I met their 2nd guitarist, Mitsuo Tate. He told me Robin met him in Tokyo checking out electronics gear like this.

@8:31 sounds straight out of season 4 Miami Vice 1987 😎

Vielen Dank👍🇩🇪

Yeah... will never forget... in the music store circa '84 - they had a 909 and a drumulator. I picked the drumulator - you could make a RCA cable that allowed it to be sync'd to MIDI clock. Had an Apple IIe with the passport interface. I never liked it. It sounded more "realistic" than a 909 but programming it was kinda a PITA, I think its timing was sloppy and well... face it. A 909 today goes for 10x what a drumulator does.

Excelent, thanks. I feel second guitar riff should sound more distant, don't know how

Cool!

🔥

Nailed it.

Another one of my fave bands! We have soo much '80s in common, Paolo! Well done on nailing the Cocteau's sound, mate. I dunno if I've asked you before but where you a fan of Secession?? How about the group Fashion who did Streetplayer?