November, 2003 archive

XLR8R (accelerator) magazine covers electronic music in its various popular forms. It focuses on the music, style and art of electronic music culture

Larry Fast recorded under the name Synergy in the 70’s and 80’s and created some influential rock/pop electronica. His album “Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra” was released in 1975, and featured staples of 70’s electronica: Moog, Mellotron, Oberheim, and sequencers.

Synthmuseum has information on many classic and not so classic synthesizers. There are also articles on famous synthesizers and synthesists.

EMS calls itself the “Longest Established Synthesizer Manufacturer”. We’re not sure if that’s proper English, but EMS is an English company, so they ought to know.
Electronic Music Studios was created in 1969 by Dr. Peter Zinovieff to sell equipment arising from his interests in music applications of computers and electronics. EMS created many products that […]

The Electronic Music Defense & Education Fund is a response to people that think the war on drugs should also be a war on electronic music.
The goals of this group are to raise and provide funds for legal assistance to people in the electronic dance music industry who are targeted by law enforcement as part […]

Out of MIT comes a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music.
The Audiopad is being developed by a pair of MIT grad students, James Patten and Ben Recht. It is an application of earlier work they’ve done on new […]

The Propellerheads establish their loop-based retro electronica sound with Decksanddrumsandrockandroll.
The album name sums up the sound of this album. It is full of loops, samples, and drum machines, but also manages to rock on many cuts.
Decksanddrumsandrockandroll has a spy theme. The cut, “History Repeating”, sung by Shirley Bassey, sounds like it could be the theme […]

TB303.org - This site is a portal site devoted to the Roland TB-303, one of the most important instruments in electronic music over the last twenty years. It has 303 news, and 303 patterns for many types of electronica.
See also the Synthtopia review of the Roland TB-303!

This site is the personal site for Robert Rich, an innovative creator of electro-acoustic music. It includes interviews, news, biography, FAQs, and a discography. There are Quicktime previews of many of his albums.
See also the Synthtopia artist profile of Robert Rich.

Personal site for David Hylander that features MOTM-related information, including details of his mods and his ROM Expander Board for the Wiard/Blacet Miniwave.

Modular Synth - This site provides an introduction to modern modular synthesizer manufactures.

Blacet claims to have “Some of the Best Compact Synthesizer Modules on the Planet!”, and many modular users would agree.
Blacet is the home of the Klangwerk balanced modulator, Time Machine BBD analog delay, and the Mini Wave wavetable module. Blacet’s modules are designed to use the small FracRak system, but they are electrically compatible […]

Tellun Corp - This site has information of interest to MOTM users. It features mod/cons to MOTM modules, details of a large MOTM system, and information on Tellun’s MOTM-compatible DIY modules.
The site is put together by Scott Juskiw, and features lots of DIY projects. Scott has put together PCB’s for several limited-edition MOTM-compatible modules. These […]

Classic electronica from the 70’s and 80’s often featured the unique “swooshing” sound of analog phasers. The phased sounds found on Jean Michel Jarre’s Equinoxe album were the inspiration for Oakley Sounds‘ fantastic Equinoxe phaser.
Oakley Sound’s version was designed by Tony Allgood, the mastermind of Oakley Sound. Oakley makes a complete line of MOTM-compatible modules […]

Edited by Peter Shapiro
Modulations serves as a good introduction to the various genres of modern dance electronica. It was was written to accompany Iara Lee’s 1998 film of the same name. It is written in a hip style by people you can tell really love electronica. It is stylishly put together, and includes many great […]