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Re: Good synth CDs

2008-09-04 by JohnLeightonRice

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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