Charting the development of electronic music up until the 70s, BBC documentary The New Sound Of Music is our Saturday Matinée feature. It’s strange to think that synthesizers, some of them now the size of your hand, were monstrous machines that you needed a house to fit them in and the price of a mortgage to …
It’s Leftover Links time and we’re looking into the wonderful world of synths, samples and drum machines thanks to articles from HipHopDX, RBMA and The Guardian.
A collaboration between Chicago’s Open Music Labs and MIT’s Jie Qi has garnered a re-release of the Mixtape Alpha, a synth that fits in a cassette case. Anyone remember the Stylophone? It was a mini analog synth controlled with a wired stylus and championed by Australian artist and former Animal Hospital dude Rolf Harris in …
The synthesizer legend that is Bob Moog is the subject of a documentary by Hans Fjellestad. It’s the feature presentation for this week’s Saturday Matinée.
Austrian producer Dorian Concept revisits the microKORG and shows what he has learnt in the seven years since showcasing its potential on YouTube.
Herbie Hancock jams with Quincy Jones and his Fairlight CMI for this week’s Throwback Thursday.
A great documentary on the shortlived TB-303 that spawned some influential basslines after its “death”.