At a time when dull laptop jockeys are ‘poisoning’ dance music, electronic duo the Grid explain why it’s time to swap software for synths
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Maybe we should start scanning the streets for white dog turds, or the catwalks for Sta Prest-style polyester flat-fronts, given the sheer unlikeliness of the latest 1970s technology to make a comeback. Because modular analogue synthesizers are back in a big way. Later this year, Roland will start selling the System-500, its first modular synth for 25 years. Rival Korg recently started selling a remake of the 40-year-old ARP Odyssey, as used on Kraftwerk’s Autobahn. Most strikingly, following its 50th anniversary last year, Moog is remaking limited numbers of its earliest modular synths, including the System 35 and System 55, without which Giorgio Moroder would never have made I Feel Love.
Continue reading...by Steve Boxer via Electronic music | The Guardian
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