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Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron
Expect there are quite a few blue Blue Mondays in the house, so this is topical – our friend Alex Theakston dives down a rabbit hole straight to Kraftwerk’s very own Vako Orchestron.
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Dave Smith himself tours the Prophet-5 in a six-part series, one year later
Who better to revisit Prophet history – and its latest iteration – than the synth legend and Sequential founder himself, Dave Smith? Dave’s got a six-part series on the instrument, and… I’m writing this right next to one of the 1978 original designs if anyone has an idea for what to do with it in the next couple of days!
Peter Kirn - November 16, 2021
Gear Music tech Tech
An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”
Truly imaginative electronic music can let you screen science fiction in your mind’s eye. Dive into Cluster Lizard’s LP, close your eyes, and let their sounds be a score to legendary Ukrainian author, philosopher, and dissident Oles’ Berdnyk.
Yamaha may revisit its legendary 1970s CS-80 polysynth
Peter Kirn - April 30, 2019
Gear Music tech Tech
The 1976 Polymoog film reminds us of when polysynths were new
Peter Kirn - October 9, 2018
Modular-Analog Music Music tech Tech
The amazing touch-controlled synth made in 1978 China
Peter Kirn - April 20, 2018
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Tech
Make Noise are turning a classic 1972 synthesis book into a video series
Peter Kirn - March 21, 2018
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
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