"The Condor GSM, the world's first guitar synth made by Hammond in 1970. Used by Jimi Hendrix, John Entwistle and Kraftwerk alike, this unit is new-old-stock and actually comes with the pickup & cover! It has some amazing features & sounds: repeat, vibrato, tremolo, 4 kinds of basses, bassoon, organ, fuzz, mellotron, horn, oboe, sitar, harpsichord and soprano."
"Peter Zinovieff's pioneering work into the fields of electronic music production and research led to many innovative electronic music instrument developments that were outstanding for the time. Peter was fascinated by electronic music and used his financial resources to develop a huge voltage-controlled studio that occupied an entire room in his home premises. There was a time when EMS (Electronic Music Studios) stood as equal to Moog and Arp. In many ways, EMS was more advanced with several pioneering ideas being investigated. Peter used two PDP8 minicomputers in the late 1960s to control the voltage-controlled analogue modules for research into electronic music exploration. Twenty years before affordable computing and sequencing packages, Zinovieff's computers could store and replay compositions, complete with sound shaping parameters even inventing a form of spectral or additive synthesis. Excerpts are edited from the television documentaries "What the Future Sounded Like" and "The New Sound of Music" featuring the first public performance of music by a computer in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1967. The spirit of EMS continues, and Peter's synthesizer innovations like the VCS3 and Synthi 100 have become outstanding analogue classics."
YouTube via RothHandle. Pro-One audio comes in at 2:00 "When I had recorded the acoustic drums for Antkowiak I realized I wanted to redo the bass so I took out a real Bass warrior...The sequiential Circuits Pro-1. This was treated through the Moogerfooger Phaser and the MOTM-440
This video was recorded at Roth Händle studios, in Stockholm, Sweden. This is where I spend my days and occasional nights recording and producing albums for artists from all over the world. After buying my first Mellotron in 1998 a spark lit in me to try to find interesting and different instruments to use in my music and productions. Now the studio is more less filled with old and new sonic weirdness ranging from tabla drum machines to pipe organs.
If you are curious about the studio please visit www.roth-handle.nu for more information, booking and blogs. If you are curious to hear some music that was recorded at the studio please visit www.myspace.com/Molesome
"This is probably the newest song I have ever presented here on YT. But I wanted to make something in multitrack where everything is played on the X-30 and I thought this particular melody by Kleerup was a good choise.
In this video I open up the instrument to fix some bad connections. And I also answer the somewhat relevant question 'what is Percussive Maintenance'."
