This is pretty fun. The swedish rock/blues/electronica band Robert Johnson & Punchdrunks makes some interesting live covers of Vangelis "Blade Runner" soundtrack and John Carpenters "Escape from New York".

I really like the surf twist on Blade Runner.

Blade Runner:

Escape from New York:

Youtube via thorjohnson

These Wehavesynth posts were the most popular ones the past week according to the Ihavesynth community.

1 - Fotoplastikon electro life- oh so cool

Nolberto posted this great synthetic/eastern european/ industrial / futuristc video.

2 - Analog Heaven Northeast 2010

Tedjames promotes this event, looks great. Too bad there´s an ocean between my home and Lowell MA.

3 - Synth Jam - True Analogisch

Nolberto posted a great synthesizer jam with some fantastic gear. Youtube classic.

4 - Van Halen screws up their jump synth

Seabass was nice enough to share this hillarious clip of Van Halen having trouble with their playback synth.

5 - Hitler Vs Edgar Winter

What happens when Hitler realized there's a better synth player than him? From Novoices.

The awesome australian band Cut Copy posted an update on their Myspace blog a couple of weeks ago, that made me wonder if they are joking or not. They wrote about what they have been up to lately, and in their own words:

"Dan spent the majority of 2009 re-creating the Blade Runner soundtrack on his recently acquired CS-80 synthesizer. Note for note, arpeggio for arpeggio. Hopefully his interpretation of Vangelis's masterpiece will eventually see the light of day. He has also been busy re-establishing the Cutters Records empire by releasing records and hosting parties, and occasionally rocking a fine Grizzly Adams beard.

Tim is still firmly stuck in the 90's. He interviewed seminal guitar band Pavement for Russh magazine and he recently procured an original piece of Daniel Johnston artwork. It now hangs above his bed.

Mitchell has been spending his days establishing a tennis league for the indie rock community of Melbourne. They even have special t-shirts with their name embrodered on them. He tells me his serve is his biggest asset. Feel free to contact him directly for membership.

Collectively however we have been camped out in a warehouse on the outskirts of Melbourne, finishing writing and recording for album number 3. More on that very soon."

Well, how interesting a remake of the Blade Runner soundtrack may be, it is the last lines about a new record that got me really happy. Their last album In Ghost Colours was a masterpiece, and I'm sure the next one will be a masterpiece as well. If it's not just Blade Runner all over again, that is.

Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire

Youtube via CutCopyVEVO

I love everything with the Cheetah MS6, this underrated synth with the same sound engine as the Oberheim Matrix 1000 and Matrix 6. And it's nice to hear some old school Trip-Hop, so I really liked this Youtube clip with a song by Youtuber michal23pl.

"drums, bassline and main saxophone samples come from akai mpc 60 and were sampled from various vinyl records. lead synth track is obviously cheetah ms6. fx sounds were synthesized and modulated in a real time with korg esx. all track sequenced by MPC60. recorded on 7inch TDK Audua tape. thanks for listening! :)"