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Limited to 500 copies worldwide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"lightweightBreak\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eThese were brothers Wolf \u0026amp; Eckhart Seesselberg. They pioneered the modular synth experiments in 1970's Germany just as their peers Beaver \u0026amp; Krause, Tontos Expanding Head Band or The Silver Apples did in the USA. Their performances often took place in art galleries or Modern Art museums, where besides their sounds they also offered seminars to instruct the public into the art of synthesizer sounds. Wolf Seesselberg became an electronic music enthusiast through his work at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus and under the influence of Swedish composer Karl-Birger Blomdahl and his electronic tone generator. His brother Eckhart devoted all his passion into building his own synthesizer, a process that lasted over ten years! The good news is that they did record their performances, and a selection of those tapes recorded between 1971 and 1973 formed their 1973 LP \"Synthetik 1\", which sees its first vinyl reissue ever now on Wah Wah Records. 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Recorded in their living room on a Teac tape machine, Synthesis was entirely composed and performed on a mail order Serge synthesizer kit that Planetary Peace (the husband and wife duo of Will \u0026amp; Kalima Sawyer) had built themselves. Originally pressed in a minuscule edition that was mostly given away to friends and colleagues, this brilliant piece of work was almost entirely unknown until Sound Recorder\/Record Collector Brett Becker chanced upon one of the only known copies in existence at the yard sale of a former New Age disc jockey in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2014. There-¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣs a very palpable DIY-vibe that runs throughout the album, which gets filtered through a visionary lens where slightly off-kilter devotional folk songs expand into majestic synth excursions that reach for the outer edges of the cosmos. It-¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣs a strange, beguiling collection of songs where two kindred spirits are operating simultaneously on a higher plane, unlike any other ostensibly -¢‚Ǩ-ìnew age-¢‚Ǩ¬ù album we can think of -¢‚Ǩ‚Äùespecially in the the way that it so embodies such a sense of wonder. Now living in Ha-¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣiku, Hawaii on the island of Maui, they operate an organic farm and have carried on their DIY roots by creating a solar powered studio they built themselves in which they continue to record to this day.\" - Love All Day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-¢‚Ǩ-ìWe recorded it ourselves in London, fall 1980, on a TEAC reel-to-reel tape deck, in our living room. We had arrived in London with all of our equipment, intent on making this recording before the arrival of our first child in Mar, -¢‚Ǩ‚Ѣ81. Through grace or luck, we found a small cottage near Hampstead Heath (right in the heart of London) that was quiet enough in the evenings to do the work. \u003cbr\u003eBecause we were (are) into harmonic tuning, rather than equal temperament, we had searched out an instrument that we could tune ourselves; there was an engineer, Serge Tcherepnin, in San Francisco who had developed a kit for an analog synthesizer which fit our specs. We spent a few months prior to leaving for London laboriously building it, soldering it together and learning how to play it. It required patch cords that manually routed the signals in various configurations, connecting oscillators, filters, etc. Now of course, this is all done digitally . . . \u003cbr\u003eWe used a TEAC reel-to-reel tape deck, Shure mics and maybe some other stuff, like reverb, all of which we brought over with us. 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For the better part of three decades Karla Borecky and Scott Foust have charted their own distinct course through the choppy waters of the experimental underground, their only interaction with the countless flash in the pan trends whipping passed their sails being a direct refutation of them. Often enjoying the company of a number of like-minded champions of the cause,_Ç The Synthetic Elements_Ç sees the core duo of Borecky and Foust continuing the reductive tactics of their most recent _¢‚ǨÀúchamber music period, as heard on landmark albums_Ç Music from the Impossible Saloon_Ç (Kye, 2011) and_Ç Lost at Sea_Ç (Recital, 2015), whilst simultaneously expanding the infrastructure towards new heights of grandeur. An intoxicatingly playful, yet hopeless atmosphere is established through deceptively simple conversations between Boreckys stately, withering piano phrasing and Fousts dicey, yet assured treatments for synth, radio, guitar and occasionally more discreet sources. 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Dennis Young is best known as the percussionist of the New York band Liquid Liquid, which is known for their piece Cavern\" from 1983, which in turn became very well-known because Grandmaster Flash sampled it and used it as the basis for their hit \"White Lines\". But Young was more than just a member of the band, he produced plenty of his own music, much of it reflecting his passion for analog electronics. He was fascinated by the pioneers of the genre. In 2016 Bureau B released Wave (BB 219CD\/LP), a collection of pieces Young had issued on cassettes between 1985-1988. Synthesis, by contrast, features tracks from 1984-1988 which have never been previously released. But lets allow Dennis Young to tell his story himself: \"My love for electronic music goes back to the late 70s when I decided to buy my first synthesizer, a rare used vintage Davolisint made in Italy, after seeing Keith Emerson perform live with Emerson Lake Palmer. 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This double LP, with included digital download, is the label's eighth release, arriving 13 years after its foundation. Fell is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist based in Rotherham, UK. Renowned for his rigorous and conceptual approach to electronic music and sound art, his work explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception through a blend of computational systems, philosophical inquiry, and cultural critique. Over the last decade, Fell's practice has visibly shifted from a world of technical intricacy and myopic microdetail to one of collaboration and community. He has purposefully sought out diverse musical partners from a wide variety of traditions and disciplines and found equally diverse ways to work and create together -- not to integrate their playing into a musical fusion, but rather to discover how such combinations of approaches and experience can stimulate unique and heretofore unheard results. The music here emerges from a commission for contemporary chamber group Explore Ensemble, situating Fell's work in a new context entirely. Having been a notable critic of classical music's slavish adherence to traditional musical notation, \"the score,\" and its associated issues of control and hierarchy, one might expect a provocative or abrasive approach. Instead, a work of deep, tonal introspection unfolds -- an elegant structure navigating the artist's trepidatious relationship with linear or timeline-based musical approaches. In Fell's selection of timbres and events, the dynamic of composer and performer is interrupted by his twin adoption of system and flexibility. Mathematical determination and sonic fixation vie for dominance. The conflict governing combinations. Upsetting preconceived strategies. Published in an edition of 777 double LPs, with included digital download, the result, Psychic Resynthesis , represents both a prismatic object for repeated examination and an abstruse table of musical correspondences. Artwork and design by Mark Fell. Mastering by Jim O'Rourke .\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frozen Reeds","offers":[{"title":"2LP","offer_id":47888225960155,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/FR040LP_PROD.jpg?v=1765571022"},{"product_id":"va-plastic-dance-2-domestic-synth-pop-patchbay-punk-compiled-by-andy-votel-doug-shipton","title":"VA - Plastic Dance 2: Domestic Synth Pop \u0026 Patchbay Punk Compiled by Andy Votel \u0026 Doug Shipton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\"... Let's talk about the dangerous counterrevolutionaries who went out and bought a cheap synth and a rudimentary drum machine. The ones that got what 'punk' was really about. The democratization of art . . . Sniffing Glue said learn three chords and form a band, Throbbing Gristle said why learn any chords at all... I am an artist because I say I am. More Marcel Duchamp than Malcolm McLaren . So, sisters and brothers, who do you think led the counter-revolution? Well I'll tell you. It was the man who stormed the Bastille and kicked the door down in the first place and he did it on the July 16th, 1977. With the help of Tommy Vance . John Lydon 's playlist that night on Vance's show included Tim Buckley , The Creation , Augustus Pablo , Bobby Byrd , Neil Young , Lou Reed , Peter Hammill , and Can and put paid to any punk rock 'year zero' claims. Meanwhile, locked out of the studio, Malcolm had to listen to the counterrevolutionary manifesto being broadcast across the metropolis. Mark that date in your diaries, sisters and brothers: 16th July, the anniversary of the birth of 'post punk'. Just over a year later in October, Lydon rammed the point home with the release of Public Image , a personal and musical manifesto in 7\" form. The music on Plastic Dance 2 is the strangely colored, distorted, and frighteningly beautiful fruit of the seeds planted on that fateful day. Lessons learned and inspiration taken from the sonic aesthetics of dub, knowing that not all disco sucked and that even jazz was allowed. Music shaped by wonky approximation and appropriation. The artists on Plastic Dance 2 were artists because they said they were. Listen to their work and you'll know they were. Listen in transcendent wonderment as George Attwell creates alchemical space funk in his home studio... as a future Mock Turtle and members of The Manchester Music Collective channel Robert Calvert and Bill Nelson ... as Korzynski comes on like a Jeff Mills remix of Terry Riley . Listen in the wide-eyed joy of being as Stabat Stable 's drum machine runs amok to the accompaniment of discordant organ stabs... as a future founder of 808 State channels Albert Ayler alongside a galloping synth arpeggio.\" -- Andrew Weatherall The second volume in the Plastic Dance series compiled by Andy Votel and Doug Shipton . Featuring exclusive liner notes by Andrew Weatherall. Features George Atwell, Vibrant Thigh , Stabat Stable , Cos , Beach Surgeons , Cosmic Overdose , Andrzej Korzynski , Ti-Tho , Gerry And The Holograms , and pragVEC .\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cache Cache","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":48052072153307,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/CACHE021LP_PROD.jpg?v=1765567581"},{"product_id":"va-plastic-dance-1-domestic-synth-pop-plugged-in-punk-compiled-by-andy-votel-doug-shipton","title":"VA - Plastic Dance 1: Domestic Synth Pop \u0026 Plugged in Punk Compiled by Andy Votel \u0026 Doug Shipton","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Having lived off the small change and 45 adaptors of each other's pockets since 2005, Finders Keepers and Cache Cache co-founders Andy Votel and Doug Shipton spread their wings and pool their DJ bags for a series of sporadic various artists compilations focusing on the global punk and makeshift electro records that have kept their beer-soaked dancefloors and distorted sound systems moving. 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