I'm thinking when he said: "I have to point out again that nobody has put out any quality synth album, and maybe no synth album at all based on a Moog modular in close to 3 decades now." He was refering to albums done with actual Moog modulars, not the Moog lookin' modern modulars like MOTM, DOTCOM, etc. etc! ;-) Right??? --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> wrote: > > Contrary to Kenneth's personal tastes, there have been a LOT of 'quality' > synth records by the MOTM folks. Now, they are not 100% MOTM, or all modular > (well, 1 is!) but as far as being a 'synth' CD, I thinks these qualify. If > I've left someone out, let me know :) > > Dave Fulton/Gil Reeves "The Range", Hypnos 2007. I play this ALL THE TIME. > It's just wonderful. > Web: http://www.myspace.com/thefultonreavesproject > Buy: > http://www.hypnos.com/mm5/merchant.mvc? Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HOS&Product_Code=hyby0707&Category_Code= > > Robert Rich: "Electric Ladder", "Bestiary" (required for all MOTM fans), > "Music from Atlas Dei", "Illumination", "Outpost", Lithosphere", "Echoes of > Small Things", etc etc etc > www.robertrich.com > > David Scott Stone "Plays the Modular Synthesizer" is all MOTM (WARNING: > possible BugMusic content) > Web: http://myspace.com/sirdsssound > Buy: http://www.postpresentmedium.com/home.php? records=ppmrecords > > David Wright/Not Breathing Records "The Black Old Pueblo", "Laquarto & > Perky" (WARNING: about as far removed from Tomita/Carlos/etc as humanly > possible) > Web/Buy: www.notbreathing.com > > Now, a much-hyped new synth CD is Amin Bhatia's "Virtuality", with a > 'Bolero' that has like 68 *different* synths, each section of the music is a > timeline of synth history (ie we start with a Theremin and end up with a > Kurzweil sampler). But after 3 passes through this thing (not the song, the > whole CD) I can only give it 1 out of 5 stars. It's a shame, because his > only other CD is "Interstellar Suite" which is like the first "Synergy" CD, > it's all done on like a MiniMoog, 2 SEMs and a few effects. THAT CD is a > 5/5. > > Paul S. >
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Re: Good synth CDs
2008-09-04 by JohnLeightonRice
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