THE ARCHIVE

Recently caught up with Andrea Fabrizii and Stéphane Lerouge, CAM Sugar 's Italian and French catalog curators, in honor of our collaboration on Synth Utopia Vol II (a compilation of rare selections from early Italian and French film soundtracks - which, if you haven't listened yet, what are you waiting for?! I also remixed a tune !) We talk about the restoration process, favorite finds and more. Without further ado... Photos by Mattia Micheli. Cam Sugar X Synth History: Syn

Interview with Brian Clevinger, the creator of Absynth!

Excited about this one! Got to catch up with legendary and pioneering musician, sound designer, composer, and five-time Grammy Award nominee, the one and only, Suzanne Ciani ! She was one of Synth History's very first interviews, featured in Issue One back in 2020 . Our correspondence then was via e-mail, during the pandemic. For Issue Five , I drove up to Northern California and interviewed her in person. Without further ado, a more intimate and long-awaited part II! If you

Ela Minus interviews musician, producer and founder of Synth History, Danz CM!

Got the chance to catch up with Tom Vek, whose album We Have Sound Remixed [ link ] celebrates 20 years! Time does indeed fly, because I...

Caught up with legendary duo Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay, better known as Justice.

Caught up with Mel and Brady of LA-based band, Sextile . The two founding members talk about their go-to gear, inspirations–from the...

Had the pleasure of catching up with the incredible musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Ty Segall . We talk about...

Recently caught up with musician, composer, producer, member of Survive and co-creator of the Stranger Things score, Michael Stein . ...

Caught up with the amazing Stéphane Quême, aka DJ Falcon , record producer and one half of the duo Braxe & Falcon at CRSSD Fest in San...

Recently caught up with Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight of ODESZA . We talk about their go-to gear, approach to remixing and the art of...

Interview with Chris Manak, better known as Peanut Butter Wolf— the legendary DJ, record producer and founder of Stones Throw Records.

Interview with Danny Elfman.

Caught up with the incredible and extremely talented, Sasami ! We talk about her favorite synths, favorite records, recording equipment...

Interview with Molchat Doma.

Liam and I go back a ways, so I was really excited to learn about his upcoming record ...And His Splash Band. Today, his new single,...

Sparks, the cult-beloved pop band consisting of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, recently unearthed Noël’s 1979 music video for "Dancing Is...

Got a chance to catch up with synth legend, Karl Bartos. In the 1970s and 1980s, Karl helped propel the use of the synthesizer with Kraftwerk on albums like The Man-Machine and Computer World . Along with Ralf Hütter, Florian Schneider and Wolfgang Flür, Karl would inspire an entire generation of electronic musicians.. In the 1990s, Karl would leave Kraftwerk and embark a solo career, continuing to collaborate with a number of musicians, like Bernard Sumner of New Order and

Got to chat with the incredible musician and composer Robert Ouyang Rusli, who scored Julio Torres' recent surrealist comedy film,...

I met Rikard Jönsson a few years ago when he was working at Ableton. The company came to my home studio to research how musicians were...