YouTube via twoshedtunes "Film of an analog electronic home studio showing how I made my tunes before digital came along and even before I had midi" Update: some background from Lorne in Canada: "Larry's a friend of mine who asked me to chop up a 1984 video of him working in his old twosheds basement studio back in 1984. I did and he just put it up on You tube. The tube has a 10 minute limit on uploads so its there in three chunks.
He used a synare, a 606 and 303 into a rather uncommon 4 track cassette mixer system from Clarion (came in its own factory console!) and he layered his homemade electric mandolin into it. The clairitone had built in analog echo circuits and varispeed. Anyhow that's how it was back in the day, just before I stumbled upon his African Bypass cassette in the local indy shop and met him. He was listening to a lot of southern African and Nigerian musics back then that were news to me. Anyhow its hard to see this gear the way it was before techno, so here's how one person made a non-techno non-disco studio out of it. He walks through how he worked back then, chain smoking the whole way, mandolin is in the middle and the final mix style is in the last chunk.
YouTube via pristak777 "My first try at a video using Dual Cyclotron, Dalek and some Doepfer modules. Not quite up to the quality I like for Church of the Apocalypse, but it is close at the end."
YouTube via Dazbo10. via ladyada's ranting. More info and pics here. "During june of 2008 i built a x0xb0x,these are the closest you can get to a TB303 without it actualy being a tb303,each component inside the case is the same as the original tb303 - This was my first play after building... I was pleased with the result."
YouTube via oldcomforter "Me messin' around with the poly 800 II - not yet modded. I got this synth in 2007 for $100 - it was slightly battered and missing a key. Amazed at how scuzzy (in a good way) and dark about 1/4th of the sounds are. Another good portion are heavenly sounding. Hopefully soon to be modded with the moog slayer."
YouTube via organfairy. Roland JX-8P "Somehow this piece of German disco music just asks for a yellow one-piece suit and a silver cap! Add two organs, a synth, and some chimes and the picture is complete...."