"I'm organizing a meeting for Modular enthusiasts in London on Saturday the 24th April (11am-5am).
People will be bringing their gear along, exchanging ideas, gossiping, performing and anyone is welcome to come along and contribute to the proceedings (please contact me at least a week beforehand).
If you are just a fan of modular music/audio you too are most welcome...the more the merrier!"
Bombay, 1982: Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and invented house music along the way!
OUT ON CD: april 19th 2010"
"*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.
So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive."
First TB-303 recording?
Update 4/26/2013:
Uploaded on Apr 3, 2010 mudkipNDS·39 videos
"UPDATE: Changed the album title to the original release, away from the title that Bombay Connection gave to it.
Track listing found here: http://www.discogs.com/Charanjit-Sing...
B2 - 33rpm - Raga Yaman
Charanjit Singh
Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat [1982]
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=28...
From the Bombay Connection website:
Charanjit Singh's 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is quite easily one of the maddest records we've ever had in stock. It was originally made in 1982 by a Bollywood soundtrack composer, intending to capitalise on the disco phenomenon with a combination of centuries-old classical Indian Ragas set to a disco backing. To achieve this Charanjit used a prototypical acid set-up of Roland TB303 bass melody sequencer and TR808 drum computer together with a Jupiter-8 keyboard. He basically created a sound which mirrored, and more importantly, pre-dated the first acid house record - Phuture's 'Acid Track' by five years, and even preceded Chip E's 'Jack Trax' in 1985. It's no throw-away novelty record either, instead capturing the hypnotic potential of acid music in the most ornate and scarily prescient fashion, making explicit the similarities of infinitely arpeggiated bass sequences and pure electronic pulses that would soundtrack dancefloors for the next 30 odd years. The more cynical among you will probably be thinking this is Ceephax or Aphex Twin delivering one of the most elaborate in-jokes of their career, but with the gatefold sleeve depicting the original sleeve and some in-depth liner notes from the label and Charanjit, our cynicism is waning in favour of absolute shock and awe. 'Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' is vintage futurism of the highest calibre, and made all the more amazing by the fact it came from India, a place hardly renowned for its electronic output! This is a remarkable record and comes with our highest recommendation - AN ABSOLUTE FIND.
Recorded in 1982 at HMV Studios In Bombay [sic], India
Also: "Working on new songs for the next ARD album 'Bad Mojo For Disko'. My first album (Little Things) was released on 01/03/2010 and is downloadable here for free: You can also get a hard copy if you want."
Bass is a preset sync sound of the jx3p with some effects on it. The chordy sound in the first part is poly800. The strings are (as allways) Juno 60. The lead-type sound is JX3P. Drums are 808 and 707 samples."
Posting this one here vs. MATRIXSYNTH-C as you can ID each synth in the mix.
flickr by Dr.Rek (click for mouse over descriptions)
"had to remove the HT tune and LT decay mods suggested by DW as they killed the LT volume, maybe it can be fixed with some tweaks Also had to take out both versions of the HH HPF mod, they both made a loud noise leak into the HH channel, DW suggests coax cable, i will try when i can get some
but for now, everything in there is go and its a working nice cept for the ocational button glitch, which maybe related to not having the plastic bar that goes between the buttons and batteries, its temped with cardboard for now"
"In the Forum of www.sequencer.de arose the question which analogue Roland synth used which filter. So I made a tour through all my schematics and created this list. This list still is missing the data for some synths, especially if you have the schematics of the Alpha Juno Series I would be interested in detailed information."
YouTube via grauoliv "Here's a short demo of operating the Yamaha QX 21 midi sequencer. It's only real time recording, but you can also record in step mode. Also it's digital, it seems to be nowadays a real old-fashioned thing to record midi-notes like this. Could it already be called vintage? I think so. The recording was made for a special youtube-user (Hy Sky). So it will be deleted in some weeks. But I will record a proper version, introducing some more options of the QX 21."
"A short video explaining the RJC1000 and the Rj Voyager"
Note: For product announcements not being shown at the Musikmesse as far as I know, I decided to include the Musikmesse label but not post title header. If I incorrectly label or miss something, let me know.
"Checking out the videos from Musikmesse I came across the pretty awesome looking Korg Monotron. I decided to knock up a quick version as I am currently working on MS-20 style filters and thought this would be a nice test platform."
"The first public showing of the Pittsburgh Modular Confluence Voltage Influenced LFO was Wednesday. Soy Sos came over and ran the module through it’s paces. He had a few great suggestions and pointed out a few necessary improvements."
YouTube via gear4music1 "Korg talk http://www.gear4music.com through their unique and groundbreaking Monotron synthesizer. Hear about the Monotron's features and most importantly how it sounds!"
YouTube via gavin916freak "just playing with the Electribe, over use of short delay (dont use it often so i decided to abuse it here) lots of bongo type drums and one of my favorites, sin wave with osc edit 1 turned all the way up, add glide+bits of vibrato :)"
"7 patch panel overlays for the Jen SX-1000 analog monosynth. These originally came with the synth and were usually lost, ruined or discarded along the way. Nice little collectible to go with your synth. Each overlay includes two "patches" showing you how to program certain sounds."
"Sequential Circuits Split-8 Analog Modeling Synthesizer, all the functions work on it. There are no presets saved on it. But most people use it for making sounds since it is a modeling analog synth. You can layer 8 voices and 8 oscillators and you can make a fat sounding bass line."
It is actually Curtis chip based real analog, not virtual.
via Mark
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