Japan - Cantonese Boy/Ghosts LIVE @ OGWT 1982

YouTube via CircusOfHeaven. Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Oberheim OB-x, Roland System 700
"with sir Sakamoto on keyboards! beautiful performance, beautiful David. Japan is love, spread it all around!"

Analog Synthesizer Builders' Summit 2008 in Tokyo

via Gan on the SDIY list:
"We had 8th "Analog Synthesizer Builders' Summit" on 2 Nov in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan. The meeting is annually held to show synth builders' makings and to exchange technical information. About 30 people attended this year. A lot of interesting things were there, such as very unique synth controller, SF-taste noise machine based on Gakken SX-150 synth, Moog modular clone, hand-made FM module programmed from scratch, PC builtin keyboard (or keyboard builtin PC), very small MIDI-CV, mechanical rhythm machine, etc.

You can see the meeting report over the net. Check following if interested:
http://analog-synth.jp/summit08/e_index.html
http://gaje.jp/2008/11/04/613/
http://mtomisan.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/

Enjoy,
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Gan
http://gaje.jp"

Oberheim DS 2a Sequencer

via this auction

The description is in German. Here it is Google translated unedited:
"He was the successor of the DS2 and has doppeltsoviel memory as its predecessor.
Year built this sequencer is about 1979. You can save 3 songs and each sequence on a trans Drrehregler Poznan and the pace of change.
On the back are Gate A CV - and outputs for Oberheim synthesizers as the 4 voice modules or SEM, Arps, such as the Odyssey and Moog (Modular Systems) and Minimoog.

To Roland (for example, a SH 101 or MC 202) to be able to control, you need a converter for Roland CV GATE norm.

Was used this sequencer, for example, by Peter Gabriel."

Novation XL Limited Edition

via sequencer.de

"Special Design, same features. 999 made. Works fine and perfect with Ableton Live."

green on black

Encyclopedia of Electronic Music

via Aliens Project:
"Bernd-Michael Land (b. 1954) aka Aliens Project started making music in late 1960’s, first on one of the early transistor organs and then switching to synthesizers while playing in various Rock bands. Parallel to that, he also started his solo career that saw him building his studio piece by piece, adding some sophisticated modular synthesizers to his setup. Since then he has released several cassettes and CD’s, worked for sample libraries (among them “Bad Samples”, “Australian Collection”, “Bionics” and Toy of the Month” series) and collaborated with several artists, including Coco of Programmierte Welten. Behind the Blue Room is his latest effort containing 16 tracks. It starts with “Battlefield of Thronos”."

Ursula Bogner

"It seems almost incredible that Ursula Bogner’s musical talents should have remained undiscovered until now. Yet in view of her biography, this might have been just as inevitable.
It was on a flight to Vilnius that I met Sebastian Bogner, Ursula’s son, who told me he was on a business trip for a pharmaceutical company. The usual small talk soon led to the topic of his mother Ursula, who also ‘liked to play around with synthesizers’, albeit purely on an amateur level and in a dedicated music room fitted especially for this purpose in the parental home. Among her acquaintances, it was simply considered one of her many eccentric hobbies and not paid a great deal of interest. At a cursory glance, Ursula Bogner’s life seemed simple and bourgeois to the core: a pharmacist, wife and mother, firmly ensconced in a detached house. A setup that made her obsession with electronic music all the more bizarre, an obsession that drove her to build her own studio for extensive recording and experimentation."

Read the full story on Faitiche and be sure to check out the samples. Really great stuff. Fascinating story that makes you wonder how many others were out there. I wish we knew what synths she used. via floppy.

It's Election Day in the USA!!!

Yeah baby! GO VOTE!!! I'll leave you with this one as inspiration. Keytars and boobs.
Only in the good old USA. :) See MATRIXSYNTH is balanced! Yes to Proposition B8B!

DS-10 song - Pachelbel Canon in D

YouTube via jetdaisuke. "KORG DS-10 SONG 'Pachelbel Canon in DS-10'"

The 2008 Pacific Northwest Synth Meet via John L Rice

You can find the full set here.

Vote No On Proposition 8

Vote No On Proposition 8.

Just thought I'd balance out that ad people in CA might have been seeing on the top right of the site. Apologies to those in CA for the ad. Totally inappropriate on this site. Not sure how traditional marriage is at risk... The reason this world is so messed up is lack of tolerance and people trying to force their views on others. Period. Fight for your rights and fight against the "right" to take it away from others less fortunate than you. Google Ads are off until after the election. Thanks goes to Josh for sending this one in.