Blog category: Minimoog

The Shape Of Things That Hum - great synthesizer documentary

Posted on 241209 in , , , , , , , and

The shape of things that hum is a series of short documentaries about electronic instruments with every episode focusing on a specific instrument. These videos have been around for a while and a lot of you have definitely seen them already. If you haven't, its a must see. A lot of classic vintage gear and some cool people talking about them (some, definitely not all of them). This was broadcasted in England back in 2001. I found these nuggets on Google Video and I thinks its the perfect time killer for the Christmas Holidays. Though the narrator is a bit boring...

OK, here goes. 6 clips, all of them 11 minutes long. It was seven clips, but the Yamaha DX7 episode is not available unfortunately.

Minimoog

Roland TB-808

Roland TB-303

Simmons

Vocoder

Fairlight

The Akai Sampler

 

Toss a cat, play some synths

Posted on 271109 in , , and

This german lady seems interesting. She is a catowner and a synthowner, and in this clip you see her present her cat to the viewers, toss it away and then play some electronic music for us. It's the tossing that makes it good.

Youtube via synthiefrau

SCI Prophet VS + Minimoog + Roland TR-606

Posted on 170409 in , , , and

Demo by the great RetroSound Vintage Synthesizer Channel

Youtube via retrosound72

RetroSound website 

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Been into synthesizers for 15 years, but never a technical geek. I'm a member of the band Velours Perfect, and have had electronic music as a hobby since I stopped playing with G.I Joe Figures. I buy and sell synths all the time, sometimes manically, and my favourite synth varies, right now it is the Alesis Ion. On this blog you can read about whatever comes out of my mind, mostly synthesizer-related stuff though. Bzzt!

 

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