Nordlead + Synthlite + TR505

YouTube via sync4000. "Nothing of importance."

MFOS Noise Cornucopia Chaos

YouTube via neandrewthal. via Nusonica.
"Who needs free jazz trios when you have synthesizers?"

bughug#1

YouTube via goto80. "defmon blushing" DefMON software for the SID. More info on GetLoFi.

Buchla 200e Demo

click here for the demo via Nicholas Kent. This one is pretty different from most you have probably heard.

Jarre breathes again with Oxygene

"Back in the Seventies, as punk was snarling its way across a world that had not yet gone green, a different sound was heard."

"Now Jarre has returned to his roots, dusted off his aged but robust tools and for the first time embarked on a tour of indoor venues across Europe.

These keyboards and synthesisers look antediluvian but emit warmth and emotion when in the right hands.

'It's not nostalgia, it's not a retro way of thinking. It's just the fact that these instruments - in the history of music - are absolutely unique, like the Stradivarius, or the Les Paul Gibson 58, or whatever," he says.

'Those instruments are very sensual and organic and you can have a very poetic approach to it.

'The difference between noise and music is the hand of the musician.

'It's the reason why I wanted to present Oxygene, which I've never played before in its entirety in a concert, to share this experience in a different venue, with proximity to the audience, to share the experience with the audience in a different context.'"

Click here for the full interview by the BBC.
You can find tour info at the official Oxygene JMJ website. Looks like European dates only. Anyone know if he will be coming to the US?

Mochika live, bjork cover

YouTube via atomolab
"Hi, this a live set during practices for the upcoming Atomo´s concert. 2 Mochika sequencers + Kaos Pad."

Future retro Newt and Peitra patching

flickr by Paulkaiju (click for more)

sha101100 - Roland SH-101 and Eurorack Modular Track

via appliancide:

"The bassline is the 101 and everything else is the eurorack modular (Analogue Solutions, Bananalogue, Doepfer, Livewire & Plan B). The 101 is being clocked by the modular."

you can find the track here.

From 1860 - The First Sample Ever?

"For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words 'Mary had a little lamb' on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.

The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif."

Click here for the full article on the New York Times including the creepy audio.
via Retro Thing

two moog minimoog analog synthesizers

flickr by Yotsuba&!
(click for more)

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