Pythagoras – Journey to the vast unknown
We found this LP review in an older Sonic Report magazine from 1981. Pythagoras was a brilliant Dutch synth group with a small but interesting discography which we would like …
Brian Eno reveals how he produced ambient music
A great story from musicradar.com. Interviewer Alan Jensen asked how Brian Eno produces ambient music. Brian’s response: “…on the DX7 – I’m very surprised that Yamaha haven’t given me one …
Which gear defined the artist’s career?
This interesting feature, created by Andy Jones appeared at Musicradar.com : one piece of gear that changed or defined an artist’s career. Below you’ll find an excerpt of this article. …
(Updated) Moog Music joins InMusic
Update: September 26, 2023. Reports are circulating that Moog Music is cutting manufacturing jobs at its US headquarters in Asheville and moving the majority of its synth production to Taiwan. …
Interview with Erik Norlander
Michel Scheijen did an extensive interview with Erik Norlander – published as “The ability to be independent” on his website Musicophilia. This interview is kindly reproduced with courtesy (c) Michel …
Calvin Harris – Creating a track with an Amiga 500+
This article, created by Ben Rogerson, was published on Musicradar recently. Although not about synthesizers – we thought that this story about creating music on a (vintage) computer might be …
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Interview with Sandra Sims of SDS
For International Women’s Day, Attack magazine talked to five women engineers working in the synthesizer industry about the challenges they face. This is the interview with Sandra Sims, designer and …
(Updated) Jean Michel Jarre – the Equinoxe sound
Update August 17, 2023: we added an interesting video with JM Jarre performing Equinoxe 3 on piano … Although Equinoxe was considered to be a state-of-the-art electronic album on its …
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Tales from topographic oceans – YES keyboard players
Musicradar just published an interesting article about the different keyboard players in Yes. Below we have summarized this article for you. Please note that all (c) are with Musicradar and …
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Radio Electronics 1973 – Paia 2700 DIY synth
In 1973, Radio Electronics (magazine) published a series of articles for building your own modular synthesizer, created by John Simonton. This DIY project resulted in the Paia 2700 synthesizer, which …