Tag: Synthesizer
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PNK Stylophonic Giftshop
Usually I get into new music and bands through covers then check out their oriignals, but this is the exception – YouTube randomly suggested the breaks/drum and bass stylophone track ‘eponymous’ by the PNK Stylophonic Giftshop – very Crumpl – and I stayed for the covers, which are good but I like the originals more.…
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Keep Tracking: Trackers and 16 bit music
I have covered the musical history of trackers and 16 bit music before on the podcast, but this is a great in-depth historical look at the ‘sound of software piracy’ – although I’d argue that the early Amiga demos like the 1988 classic Wild Copper were more coding brags and weirdly computer shop adverts (?)…
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Electronicos Fantasticos – Surfing on CRT waves
I saw a post about Japanese band? collective? Electronicos Fantasticos who hack domestic equipment like fans and TVs to make instruments, use touch synthesizers (Bruce Haack invented that WAY back in the 1960s!) and barcode readers to make music. Here they cover New Order’s Blue Monday at Iron Island Festival. It’s very Kraftwerk meets Tim…
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RIP Florian Schneider
Oh boy…where do you start with an artist like Florian Schneider, of Kraftwerk? Sadly he has died at 73. It’s not hyperbole when you say that Florian and Kraftwerk may not be household names like some, but without Kraftwerk you probably wouldn’t have new wave and new romantics, electro-pop, house, techno and all those influenced…
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Keep Tracking
A great video and basically this is how I produced my early music tracks 30 years ago! I had a Yamaha Portasound 160 and later 590, but my first keyboard was very similar to the one in this video without the fun synth waves. That said, later I had OctaMED and I think a version…
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RC 316: 20-20 / Grandpa winter
A frosty farewell to 2019 and Neil Innes and a 20/20 vision of what’s to come and a ritual for the sun to come back, and winter to go far far away and come again another day! The first podcast of 2020 includes a very eclectic mix of jungle, folk, hardcore, Mexican ska, hauntology and…