Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with SHAI YALLIN

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Shai Yallin is a cross-genre keyboard player, composer and producer from Tel Aviv, Israel. Combining influences from his roots in proto-electronic music and progressive rock, he has been making music in his home studio and with bands since the early 2000s. His past work includes keyboards, arrangement and engineering with progressive rock band Solstice Coil, and composition, keyboards, arrangements and engineering with electo rock project Salvya. Currently Shai is active as a solo electronic music artist under the moniker electricmonk, as well as handling keyboards and arrangement duties with Subterranean Masquerade.

We chatted with Shai on how he uses the Prophet Rev2 in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with VICTOR ATANASOV

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"Behind the music of Frenzy Jones and Dope Buzz is Victor Atanasov. Victor has been involved with the electronic music scene for more than a decade and has worked with the likes of the featured female vocalist on Prodigy’s hit single Smack My Bitch Up, as well as with Prodigy’s engineer. Victor’s music has been played numerous times on the biggest radios such as BBC Radio 1, Kiss 100 among others with great feedback from some respectable names in the music scene and business. In the recent years Victor has experimented with new sounds and genres with synthesizers and drum machines. We chatted with Victor on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with GENE PAUL GAYOL

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"Gene Paul Gayol is a songwriter, composer, producer, keyboardist and has participated in Latin Grammy & Golden Globe winning projects. He has also performed or recorded with Platinum & Grammy award-winning recording artists. More recently GP’s keyboards can be heard in the Disney film Encanto.

Avenoir, a band made together with his friends during the pandemic, released their debut record New Year’s Day 2022 and features the Prophet-6 & vintage Prophet-5 synthesizers.

We chatted with GP on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with JON SOLO

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Jon Solo began playing the piano at four years old. In his youth he went on to become a top ten finalist in The International Young Keyboard Artist Competition, and a regular cast member of the television show Music Magic, which was regionally broadcast and filmed in Seattle.

Solo was awarded a scholarship from Cornish College of the Arts where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Jazz Piano. He moved to New York and began cutting his teeth playing in renowned Jazz Clubs throughout the city. In the last 11 years he’s been a regular band member for Angus and Julia Stone, Brett Dennen, Passenger, and Dope Lemon, playing sold out world tours and major music festivals, such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Governor’s Ball, Outside Lands, Hang Out Festival, Austin City Limits, Bumbershoot, Osheaga Festival (Canada), Rock Werchter (Belgium), Pink Pop (Netherlands), Hurricane Festival (Germany), Montreaux Jazz Festival (Switzerland) Falls Festival (Australia), and many others.

Other career highlights include national television performances on The Dave Letterman Show, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Good Morning America, and The CBS Morning Show.

In 2017, Jon Solo created Naneum, an ambient-piano based project. Since then, he’s released four full length albums and one EP. He was recently featured on NPR’s regularly broadcasted Echoes with John Diliberto, playing a live concert and interview. In 2018 he performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and licensed a song to Apple, which is on the iOS in the photo memories section.

We chatted with Jon on how he uses the Prophet-6 in his music"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with BRYN BLISKA

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"Bryn Bliska is a musician, composer and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her sound merges a childhood soundtracked by ’90s pop and R&B jams with her jazz training and affinity for technology. Her creative mission is to support historically marginalized and underrepresented people and to amplify their sounds and stories.

Bryn frequently collaborates with artists & producers across many genres, including Jacob Collier, Karol G, Rozzi, Lawrence & Sofi Tukker. She has scored video & podcast projects for the New York Times, NPR, TED, and the Getty Museum, writes for Universal Production Music, and received the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award in recognition of her composition Bilateral.1. She is also a co-founder of nu.wav, an independent sample label distributed by Splice. Her Splice Originals sample pack, “Soul Jazz With Bryn Bliska,” reached the Top 10 of the Splice charts in Spring 2020. She also sound designs for Reason Studios.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Bryn graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2014 with a degree in Neuroscience before spending a year as a Graduate Research Assistant in Tod Machover’s Opera of the Future group at the MIT Media Lab.

We chatted with Bryn on how she uses the Prophet Rev2 in her music"

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara)

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"Dr. Tara Rodgers (Analog Tara) is a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music. She is the author of Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound (2010) and several essays on the history of sound and synthesizers. Her music includes recent techno EPs on 1432 R (DC), several self-released albums, remixes for Beauty Pill and Le Tigre, and a compilation release on Move D’s Source Records. She has presented music and public lectures at MUTEK, Ableton Loop, and many other forums.

We chatted with Analog Tara about how she uses Sequential instruments in her music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with CHRIS HALL

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"Chris Hall sings and writes music for the electronic rock band Stabbing Westward. They have had 2 Gold Records from 1996-2000 and continue to record new music and tour.

We chatted with Chris on how he’s been using Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with DELAURENTIS

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"Musician, producer, composer, writer, and singer – DeLaurentis is one and more. It’s the story of a French little girl who would watch her dad playing music, and quickly understood that musical notes could spring up and fly away from her arms, her hands, her fingers. The music was a part of her. With this revelation, the sky opened up to her. After several years spent at the Conservatory she became a self-taught producer, and discovered the world of computer music influenced by Laurie Anderson, one of the first women to pioneer electronic music. DeLaurentis settled in Paris in 2015, and released her first two EPs. She started to get noticed then, with her unique universe and music videos. Her new album “UNICA” is due to release on September 3rd, 2021. We chatted with DeLaurentis on how she uses the Prophet Rev2 in her music."
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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with KARL LEARMONT

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"Hailing from Sydney, Australia, Karl Learmont / Angelspit is known for vicious synths, slamming modular distorted drums, and lyrics with a twist of sarcasm. Angelspit’s new album The Ignorance Cartel is their nineteenth release since their inception in June 2004. Currently based in LA, Angelspit has toured the USA and Europe multiple times – dragging their synths around with them.

We chatted with Karl on how he uses the Prophet Rev2 in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with TONY SWAY

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"Tony Sway aka T-Sway is a Singer/Songwriter and Producer. He has placed his beats with Grammy winning & award winning artists such as Krayzie Bone, Tyga, Frankie J, Quincy and Al B Sure!, just to name a few. His most recent production for Cookiee Kawaii-Vibe is certified gold! Sway also serves as a producer for artists and labels via his website, where he has leased and sold thousands of beats over the years. Combined, Tony Sway has generated over 300 million plus streams from producing other artists as well as his own releases.

We chatted with Tony on how he uses the Prophet-10 in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with Christopher Bono

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"Christopher Bono is a polymath composer, instrumentalist and producer who has created acclaimed works and projects across genres, including orchestral, chamber and choral modern classical pieces, post-rock, jazz, experimental and electronic albums. Bono is also the founder of Our Silent Canvas Records, a non-profit label he founded in 2010 as a vehicle for his own compositions and for collaborations with unique performers and friends. Christopher’s recording projects include Ghost Against Ghost, NOUS, Tsyphur Zalan, Nous Alpha, Gabbarein and more yet to be announced.


We chatted with Christopher on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with BEN ANDREW

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"Ben Andrew is a concert pianist, composer, arranger, graphic designer, and app creator. He studied at Trinity College of Music, London, under renowned British concert pianist and pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus, John Bingham, and at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where he studied under Jenõ Jandó.

He has given numerous solo recitals both in the UK, Eastern Europe, and East Asia at venues including St Martin in the Fields in London, The Pump Room in Bath, and Óbudai Társaskör, Budapest. Ben also has an extensive concerto repertoire and notable performances include Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Rachmaninov’s 2nd and 3rd Piano Concerto to name a few. In 2013, he performed the music of Hollywood film composer Harry Gregson-Williams at St John’s Smith Square, London under the baton of the composer himself.

Ben’s original songs have been played on BBC radio and in 2019, a song he co-wrote with his band Collingwood called “Not in My Name” led to an interview on LBC, one of the UK’s leading radio stations. He is also a Hal Leonard author and he recently released a book on music theory as well as an arrangement of “Hatikvah” for violin and piano, which currently features on the ABRSM and Trinity violin syllabus.

Ben’s band Collingwood has been the support act for musicians including Roger Hodson, founder of Supertramp, and Tony Hadley, the founder of Spandau Ballet. In January 2020, Ben performed with Rick Wakeman and Bernie Marsden as part of a Beatles tribute concert in Buckingham, England.

Ben is also the artistic creator of two iOS apps, ScaleTracks and ScaleTracks JAM, which aim to make scales and arpeggios an enjoyable and, most importantly, musical experience. ScaleTracks has been a worldwide success and has been endorsed by leading figures in the music industry. ScaleTracks has also received highly positive reviews in BBC Music Magazine, The Strad, and Music Teacher Magazine among others.

Ben is Head of Keyboard at Stowe School, England where he leads a strong team of piano teachers.

We chatted with Ben on how he uses the Prophet-10 in his music."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with Julian Cisneros

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"Julian Cisneros is a film composer and multi-instrumentalist most known for taking the traditional orchestra and unifying its versatility with arrays of analog synthesis and organic texture. The result is a continuously evolving sound that integrates with his various projects.

In 2020, Julian launched a licensing site featuring his diverse catalog of commissions from some of the worlds top studios and brands. Some of his clients include RED Digital Cinema, National Geographic, Disney, Lucasfilm, Honda, Filson, Black Diamond, Mitsubishi, OceanX, Vizio, Prana and many more.

Based in sunny Orange County, California, Julian continues to innovate and collaborate with filmmakers all over the world.

We chatted with Julian on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Featured Artist - NICHOLAS SEMRAD

You can find an interview with NICHOLAS SEMRAD on Sequential's website here.

"Nicholas Semrad is a keyboardist and programmer based in both Los Angeles and New York City, currently touring with Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles, Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music, Donny McCaslin, Knower, Jennah Bell, and The Lesson NYC.

Born in the small town of Fremont, Nebraska, he studied Suzuki classical piano for 14 years before studying private jazz and rhythm study with ex-Wynton Marsalis/Norah Jones drummer Dana Murray.

After touring the midwest blues scene with blues legend Magic Slim (and the Tear Drops), Nicholas re-located to New York City where he started playing with some of the finest musicians around. Touring stints and gigs in the past have been with Miss Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli, Bilal, Liv Warfield, Meg Mac, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, Terrace Martin, and Bootsy Collins.

We chatted with Nicholas on how he uses Sequential instruments in his music."

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Sequential Prophet 6 - Dream Suite

video by Synthetic World 859

Synthetic World 859 was recently featured in a Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview (previously posted here)

"I wrote this Debussy-inspired piece specifically for the Prophet 6 after the vintage mode update came out. Headphones recommended! In the first section I use the stereo field to create a sonic drone orb. The second section is improvisational, leaning on a minor 6/9 chord into a major 7(#11). The third is variations on a lovey motif.

I really don't know anything about classical music, but this is where my ear lead me this time. Hope you enjoy it.

00:00​ Sonic Orb
02:54​ Improvisation
06:42​ Love"

Prophet 6 Tutorials by Synthetic World 859

Synthetic World 859 was recently featured in a Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview (previously posted here)

Playlist: (yes playlists are back :)
Prophet 6 Tutorial: Pads Pt 3 (Poly Mod) - May 11, 2020
Prophet 6 Tutorial: Pads Pt 2 (Oscillators) - May 1, 2020
Prophet 6 Tutorial: Pads Pt 1 - Apr 20, 2020
Farfisa Style Organ with the Prophet 6 - Feb 20, 2020
How to Recreate the Intro Patch from "Slumlord Rising" by Neon Indian - Nov 17, 2018
Full Keyboard Tracking: You're Doing It Wrong! and Why Filter Stepping Is Actually Useful - Sep 11, 2018
How to Recreate the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" Lead Brass Synth - Sep 4, 2018
Unstable Synthesis with the Prophet 6 - Aug 23, 2018
Attaining Synth String Nirvana with the Prophet 6 - Jun 22, 2018
Modulation Tricks with the Prophet 6 - Jun 14, 2018
Modern Bass with the Prophet 6 - Jun 11, 2018
How to Create the Frankenstein Patch on a Prophet 6 - Oct 2, 2017
Prophet 6 Tutorial: Pads Pt 4 (Distortion & Sync) - Jul 9, 2020
Adding Character Into Your Synth Sound: Subharmonicon Has It, Prophet 6 & MicroFreak Can Too - Sep 16, 2020
Prophet 6 Bass Tutorial - Jan 19, 2021

Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with NICOLAS VELASQUEZ

You can find the interview on Sequential's website here.

"Nicolas Velasquez is an artist and producer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Falling in love with synthesizers about three years ago (about the same time he started producing music), Nicolas tries to enhance the organic capabilities that synthesizers possess.

His debut album Den stora kölden – Musik inspirerad av Trollvinter is an instrumental interpretation of the book ”Moominland Midwinter” by Tove Jansson.

We chatted with Nicholas about how he uses the Prophet Rev2 in his music."
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Sequential Featured Artist - KAELA

You can find an interview with KAELA on Sequential's website here.

"LA-based Kaela, (Kaela Sinclair) serves us experimental pop music layered with nostalgic, soul-searching, heartfelt vocals. Seasoned by years of traveling the world as a musician, she writes and produces works rooted in enduring vulnerability and jaded tenderness. From her childhood in Florida she made her way to music college in Texas where she studied jazz and classical piano and voice. She eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue music. In 2016 Kaela joined the French electronic band M83 and has since recorded with them (see DSVII, 2019). She has toured with other artists such as Troye Sivan or Blackbear, as well. If you know her latest song 'Spiral' you know her uniquely memorable voice and that the vibe lingers long."

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with RYAN EHRESMAN

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"Ryan Ehresman is a composer, audio engineer, and sound designer based out of the San Francisco Bay Area known for his work with ‘59, Jerry’s Timeshare, and Synthetic World 859.

We chatted with Ryan on how he uses the Prophet-6 and Pro 3 in his music.

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Sequential Artist Spotlight Interview with NATHAN HICKS

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"Working out of a small cluttered studio, Silence_Castor is the alias of musician Nate Hicks. He uses it as a creative outlet and a musical experiment. He utilizes old-school recording techniques, analog synthesizers, and a generous amount of reverb and delay to create music ranging from space themed ambient electronica to funk inspired lofi hip hop. His influences and inspirations include Lorn, Rival Consoles, Radiohead, and Nine Inch Nails.

We chatted with Nathan on how he’s been using the Prophet Rev2 in his music.
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