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Synth History Issue 2 pop-up at VSM

Had so much fun this past weekend at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum! It was really great meeting a bunch of you in person and we hope to...

Stuff You Should Know About: Gina X Performance

If you don't know about this German arthouse electro-disco project from Cologne consisting of producer Zeus B. Held and lyricist Gina...

Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto

Pretty amazing video of legendary duo Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto, an artist and creator of several anime and manga series. Leiji...

Bill Bruford On The Simmons Electronic Drum Kit

Pretty neat video of Bill Bruford on Micro Live, via BBC Archival in December of 1985. He speaks with Lesley Judd about his Simmons Drums...

Discovering Electronic Music, 1983, by Bernard Wilets

Discovering Electronic Music is documentary short by filmmaker Bernard Wilets. ⁣ You won't find much about director Bernard Wilets on the...

Where did sampling originate?⁣

In music, sampling is the reuse of a portion of a sound recording in another recording.⁣ ⁣ The process of sampling emerged in the 1940s...

Micor Coupland Digital Synthesizer, 1978.

Many vintage synths exist without having ever been mass produced. Take the space-age looking Con Brio ADS 100 & 200 for example, or...

Sound Chips and Chiptune

Before you get your hopes up, the image below is a concept design made by Cem Tezcan of a Handheld Retro PC - Commodore HX-64.⁣ Just a...

What's with this Moog Source?

This particular Moog looks pretty different from other Moogs. Straight out of a 1970s sci-fi movie! ⁣ ⁣ One great example of the Moog...

Remembering Florian from Kraftwerk

Remembering the late Florian Schneider-Esleben today. Florian founded Kraftwerk alongside Ralf Hütter in 1970.⁣⁣ Florian started off...

Triadex Muse [1972]⁣

A sequencer-based synthesizer designed by Edward Fredkin - an early pioneer of digital physics - and Marvin Minsky - a cognitive...