Sawtooth, a.k.a. Joakim Montelius - New Flickr Shot

flickr by maskinbatterist.

Hans Zimmer on Digital Music Mag

Title link takes you to the post. There is a link to a video and the Hans Zimmer Worship Page. I wasn't able to check out the video as I'm using a Hotel computer at the moment with no audio and the video is coming back choppy. BTW,if you sent me email and I haven't replied yet, this is why. The hotel was supposed to have wifi, but apparently they turned it off. I'll get back to you Monday.

The Musicrow Group

White Crow VST (phase distortion synth)


Crow Vintage Strings VST


Title link takes you there. Via Sonic State.

Update: Make sure to check out the comments in this post - comment link directly below.

Star Wars in Der Stadt

Title link takes you there.

The Screamers - The Beat Goes On - on YouTube

Rember the Screamers here and here?

All synth punk band from the early 80s. Click play to launch.

Dave Smith Synth - New Flickr Shot

flickr by roland.

The Cancer of Ethiopan Music

"Who is to blame for the creative collapse of Ethiopian music? The Communist regime and the synthesizer. The Communist government, which carried out a military coup in the mid-seventies, marked American soul music, which more than anything else had fueled the musical blossoming in Addis Ababa, as the music of the enemy, persecuted the musicians who continued to remain loyal to it, and directed the entire preoccupation with music to military-patriotic channels. The synthesizer, which captured the market in the 1990s, turned the wind instruments, the source of the vitality of modern Ethiopian music, into superfluous objects, and enabled untrained musicians, who were often untalented as well, to issue discs at one-tenth the price demanded previously. Abate Barihon calls the synthesizer "the cancer of Ethiopian music," thus expressing the feelings of many. "At a certain point, a few years before I left Addis, the entire city suddenly became filled with the cancers," he says."

Title link takes you to the full article. Via Synthtopia News.

Sneak Thief's ASM-2 Modular

Title link takes you to the building process including more shots and samples.

Update via Sneak Thief in the comments:

"It sounds good because the ASM-2, synthesizers.com & several CGS modules are based on a series of DIY plans released in the early 70's electronics publication called Electronotes: http://electronotes.netfirms.com/

In 1975 the authors of Electronotes, Bernie Hutchins, wrote a book called the "Musical Engineer's Handbook" - both the Electronotes series and this book have basically been the reference and inspiration for a good portion of todays modular synths.

In fact, Don Buchla, Bob Moog and Serge Tcherepnin were all subscribers to Electronotes and were definitely inspired by the schematics, and even contributed their own to the magazine.

I would even go so far to say that almost every current modular manufacturer has "borrowed" designs from the Electronotes series ; )"

The Rhodes Chroma CPU Plus (CC+)

What you are looking at is a CPU replacement board for the Rhodes Chroma created by Sandro Sfregola and David Clarke. Title link takes you to more info and shots on The Rhodes Chroma site. More vintage synths could use a group like this; I am continually blown away by them. I wouldn't be surprised if a poly-aftertouch kit came next.

Arp Axxe and Little Brother Shots

Title link takes you to shots pulled from this auction.

via Brian Comnes.