The Monolith

I remember seeing this alternate scaling controller in the past. The black and white buttons are the keys. This link takes you to more on Sendling.

Edd Kalehoff -- Schaefer Beer Commerical on YouTube

Looks like the Schaefer Moog Beer commercial is up on YouTube.
Thanks goes to MusicThing for putting this one up.

YouTube by kidsplash

New upload:

Schaefer - Edd Kalehoff (HQ Audio)

YouTube Uploaded by CoastersNSich on Apr 28, 2010

"Composer Edd Kalehoff at the Moog Synthesizer in 1973.

"Schaefer
Is the
One beer to have when you're
Having more than ooonnne!!"

(love how Edd holds the note at the end)"

Wolfgang Düren "Eyeless Dream" LP

"Wolfgang Düren became more widely known to people as the chairman of Waldorf Music. Before founding Waldorf Music he partnered with Wolfgang Palm, the man behind PPG, and distributed his synths in the late seventies till the fall of PPG in the mid eighties. Later Wolfgang distributed the synths of Waldorf, Access and Novation with his company TSI.

While he was distributing or later in charge of building synths, he was also a musician. In the late seventies he recorded the LP "Eyeless Dream". This record featured many sounds of the early PPG wavetable synths that just have had become available to some musicians searching for a new kind of sound beyond the conventional synth sounds using filters and modulations as main building blocks to shape their sound. These very new sounds in electronic music made this LP an insiders favourite over the years. Today this rare LP is of cause not available anymore.

Thanks to some Waldorfian's MP3 encoding of the LP and Wolfgang Düren's kind permission, these tracks are now available for free as 208 kBit/s variable bit rate mp3s."

Click here for more. Thanks goes to Frederic for sending this one in. Thanks Frederic!

Update via the comments: "Thanks for the link to my serer. I am sure it will glow red of the traffic. Thanks to Wolfgang Dueren for allowing us to release his work .

keep on turning these knobs, Till 'qwave' Kopper"

Kraftwerk Documentary on the BBC

Title link takes you there.

I never knew how much Kraftwerk influenced Bowie both musically and his look. Apparently when Bowie left his Ziggy Stardust phase, he went with more of Kraftwerk influenced look.

Kraftwerk - We are the robots on YouTube

BTW, I found this via a link to the following video on YouTube sent in by Greg. The following was sitting with a bunch of Kraftwerk videos including We are the Robots above. The video is Untitled. If you know what it is please comment. Disturbingly funny stuff. Enjoy... or not. "I'm so roernry..." Update below.



Update via Till "Qwave" Kopper in the comments:
"The puppets are from the very old "Thunderbirds" SiFi series. And the music is Karftwerk ofcause: "Kometenmelodie 2"."

Metasonix and the Agonizer

So I found this image of the Metasonix Agonizer on this VSE post of stuff for sale including a Realistic MG-1, Nord Lead 2, Akai S612, and a couple of other pedals. I don't remember checking out the Agonizer before, so I head over to Metasonix for more info. It's not listed as a current product but I did find the manual in the support section. I take a look and the first thing in the manual is:

"AAAGGGGHHH!!!!!
YOU SLIME!
YOU PERVERTED ANUS-MAGGOT!!
YOU ACTUALLY BOUGHT ONE??!??
WHAT THE HELL'S WRONG WITH YOU???"

Eventually followed by:

"The Agonizer is great for driving the bloody hell out of a tube guitar amp, but don't whine at US if it blows your speaker's cone across the room.... Because of the construction techniques required, the Agonizer cannot be kicked around like a fuzzbox. You WILL BREAK A TUBE if you kick it around. And thereafter, we will kick YOU around, shortly after charging you a large amount of money to fix the damn thing.The Agonizer is for the DISCIPLINED, intelligent, non-risk-averse musician. It is NOT SUITABLE for drunken/stoned bozos who play dude-guitar in Creed cover bands. Dude! MAN! Like, it SUCKS, right? (Getting the damn PICTURE yet??)"

Suddenly it all makes sense...
I have to admit, I found the image of the cone flying accross the room pretty funny. Aah! My eye!

Update via phloem in the comments: "The TX-1 Agonizer art was done by Sarah Combs."

Update via Dave in the comments: "I am happy to say I provided about a dozen custom illustration for the TX-2 Butt Probe manual, and my soul still aches from the process. Easily the filthiest shit I've ever drawn in my life."

Now it really makes sense. Dave did The Packrat series and Retarded Animal Babies. Be sure to check out Retarded Animal Babies for some cute, wholesome toons. You can find more of Dave's work on UMOP.com.

Scans by bdu - New Flickr Shots

Title link takes you to a ton of scans by bdu on Flickr. This one of a Sequential Circuits Prophet 5.

Analog Solutions Mini-modular - New Flickr Shot

flickr by zonkout.

Another cute little modular by Analog Solutions that's no longer in production.
Also see the Black Coffee. I'm starting to think I should have picked these up.

BTW, anyone know what happened to the Analog Solutions webiste. The link I have for them is surrounded by garbage ads and p*rn - the non synth kind. There's a pop-up being blocked by Firefox as well. Here's a link but consider yourself warned.

Update: Here's the URL via polardak in the comments.

Matrixsynth by Nikos

Click image or title link for animated version.