page_title: Trixie's Big Red Motorbike
section_title: Trixieland
hierarchical_section_title: Trixie's Big Red Motorbike / Trixieland
caption_attribution_description: English: Trixie's Big Red Motorbike member Mark Litten at Trixieland, Shanklin, Isle of Wight, U.K.
context_page_description: Trixie's Big Red Motorbike are an indie pop band formed on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, in 1981. They released two singles, one EP and one flexidisc. A vinyl compilation album of their music was released by Accident Records in 1995. A retrospective album was released on Lobby Lud Records in February 2012.
context_section_description: Trixieland was a 7'x7'x7' box-room in the Littens' house in Shanklin, Isle of Wight. It was used for recording TBRM's first single and demos. It was also Mark's bedroom.
   Recording equipment consisted of a TEAC 1/4" reel to reel tape recorder and an Aiwa tape to tape cassette recorder. There were no mixing facilities. The microphone stands were handmade from broom handles. Most tracks were created by first recording the drum machine, guitar and vocal together, then adding instruments one by one; bouncing between the two machines. The instruments were very inexpensive: a simple drum machine, a Westbury electric guitar, a non-Fender precision bass, and various percussion instruments. The sound resulting from this set-up was variable in quality, and should probably be described as lo-fi.
caption: Mark Litten at Trixieland, 1982
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