Bright Sparks features a fantastic collection of interviews, with both instrument designers and some of the musicians that have used their instruments.… Read More Bright Sparks Documentary Captures Stories From The Beginning Of Modern Synthesis
New Order ripped off Kraftwerk, Donna Summer & Ennio Morricone – but also remixed them to create something iconically new.… Read More How New Order Remixed Kraftwerk, Donna Summer & Ennio Morricone To Create ‘Blue Monday’
Author J. Robert Lennon shared the story of a bizarre lost 70’s Moog + psychological experiment album, ‘Campfire Orb’, that brings together the 70’s infatuation with the novelty of electronic sounds, pseudoscience, psychedelic drugs and tragic death.… Read More Bizarre 70’s Moog + Psychological Experiment Project, Campfire Orb, ‘Not Approved For Therapeutic Purposes’
While the album was not released in its day, one has to wonder how much influence McKechnie’s performances – and the performances of other West Coast pioneers – had on the explosion of psychedelic electronic music experimentation in the 70s.… Read More New Album, San Francisco Moog: 1968-72, Documents Psychedelic ‘Missing Link’ In History Of Electronic Music
The Bob Moog Foundation has announced its second one-hour live virtual tour of the Moogseum.… Read More Bob Moog Foundation Announces Virtual Moogseum Tour Focusing on Early Big Briar Years
A new film, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes, offers a unique take on the late electronic music pioneer.… Read More Delia Derbyshire: The Myths And Legendary Tapes
Pioneering composer and synthesist Wendy Carlos (Switched On Bach, Tron, The Shining) has dismissed a new unauthorized biography as ‘bogus’.… Read More Wendy Carlos Dismisses New Biography As ‘Bogus’
Following up on the success of In Search Of Hades, UMC has announced ‘Pilots of Purple Twilight’, a 10 CD boxed set, showcasing the next chapter in the band’s history.… Read More New Tangerine Dream Box Set, Pilots of Purple Twilight – The Virgin Recordings 1980 -1983
The documentary features interviews with Edgar Froese, Peter Baumann, Christoph Franke, Klaus Schulze, Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and others. … Read More 50 Years Of Tangerine Dream
A lost work by minimalist composer Philip Glass has been found and restored, after 50 years, and is getting its world premier as a recorded work.… Read More Philip Glass’s Music In Eight Parts Gets Official Debut After 50 Years
