MATRIXSYNTH

at 5/18/2006 10:21:00 AM

Click image to launch. Via nx.

"It's time to freak out with some glacial soundscapes from Popol Vuh (florian) on the beat club television show, 1971"

Update via james in the comments:

"Very nice. Sadly, Florian Fricke passed away in late December, 2001.

Here's one of the few interviews you're likely to find:

http://www.eurock.com/features/florian.aspx"

Update via James Anderson in the comments:
"just to let others know...

a bunch of popol vuh's cds,
mainly soundtracks I believe, have been re-released on the cd format in the past couple of weeks.

I work at a record store and have wanted to know what it sounded like. thanks Matrix! "

You're welcome! BTW, to my surprise Yahoo! Unlimitted actually has them including their early stuff. I'm listening to it now. I love Yahoo! Unlimitted. I pay 5 bucks a month and get access to all this stuff. And no, I have no affiliation with them. I just like the service and don't want it to go away. : ) They have 19 Popol Vuh CDs. These alone would pay for the subscription. Think about that... I also get to check out Christopher Randall's music of Analog Industries (Sister Machine Gun and Micronaut)! Alright, off of my soapbox.

at 5/18/2006 09:26:00 AM

Mike Walters' of Mystery Circuits sent this shot of his Polymoog license plate in. Nice! I'd be honking my ass off if I saw that driving down the street. : )

at 5/18/2006 12:05:00 AM

Another great shot by SkullKid.

at 5/18/2006 12:04:00 AM

Japan Promo Video - Life In Tokyo
Japan - Quiet Life
Japan - Gentlemen Take Poloroids
Japan Quiet Life 1981
Japan - Cantonese Boy (Live)

via Micke in this VSE post.

at 5/18/2006 12:03:00 AM

Via Andrew of bleepsandbloops, "Here's a little demo I made with my Synthesizers.com setup. It's pretty minimal right now - just two oscs, noise unit, one envelope, one filter, one multiple, one amp - but I've already been able to do a bunch with it."

Title link takes you to a 2.84M MP3.

at 5/18/2006 12:02:00 AM

Two videos: one, two.

gear used:
TB-303
TR-505
TR-707
AN200
A4000 sampler
TBS DRM2 minisyncussion
Alesis Philtre modfx

at 5/18/2006 12:01:00 AM

Title link takes you to Synthesizer Modifications. Scroll down when you get there for a list of modification and images.

BTW, before you go modding away consider the following comments on AH:

via Martjin:

"Let's hope that the kit I got slipped through AS quality control somehow, otherwise I'd say that these kits aren't worth the money. Nevertheless the CP and HH mods are very interesting, but the Tom mods are very uninspiring."

Via Ryan:
"I'll second the pondering AS quality control. i had a tr808 with kenton midi and the AS tonal mod. the tonal mod imho destroyed the 808's sound. the 808 sounds perfect as is. you don't have to mess with it. once you mess with it, it starts sounding all sorts of cheap ;("

Via Jason:

"i'll "third" that: i would highly advise against Analogue Solutions for tonal modifications (they are not done with musicality or usefulness in mind), and in general i think their quality control standards are very low. not only that, but if you try to complain about the low quality, customer service is terrible: "the customer is always wrong" might be an appropriate slogan. too bad, because their products and services sound great "on paper", and sometimes they get it right... but not often enough IMO."