Another via Frederic. Automat is an old electronic album from 1978 that featured the ASE MCS70. You can read more about the album here where you will find a number of samples. You can find more on the MCS70 on Synthmuseum.com where the image below was pulled from.
via the Automat page:
"When I saw my incoming mail box in 2000/October/01 I had a great surprise. A message from Mario Maggi (the man who idealized and constructed the MCS70, the sinthesizer used to do "automat"). Once again, my thanks to Sergio A. Simões. He found the Mario Maggi´s e-mail, contacted him, and told him about my page. To receive a message from Mario Maggi and all creators of "automat" is one of my great objectives. Naturally, I had (and still have) thousands of questions. We change a few messages, and I´ll continue changing. Now you can see a few questions. The first message was from Mario Maggi to answer questions for Sergio. The main subject is about MCS70, but there is a lot of information regarding 'automat'." Thanks Frederic!
Great stuff . never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteWhile listening to the soundsnippets of automat, i realised that i have a different version of the Track "droid" by a group called Mito, which is one
of my all time favourite early italo disco tracks.
http://www.discogs.com/release/241742
i'd consider this track now the blueprint track for all later italo disco instrumental tracks from the likes of Koto, Cyberpeople or the dutch Laserdance. I would really like
to see automat re-issued as an Lp or at least a Cd.
It's a really cool album. I've had a copy of it for years that I found on line. It was a transfer from the vinal of all things!
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There's a 3rd cover of Droid from the early 80s by Hipnosis.
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