Sunday Synth Jams: Bernd Kistenmacher’s Celestial Movements offers some live Berlin School synth jamming with a kick.

via cosmiccagibi:

Bernd Kistenmacher is back ! First concert in Paris… Excellent ! If you couldn’t be there no worries, we like to share, so… enjoy, and see you next time. Soon !

Thalassa’s Berlin School Moments is a retro live synth jam, featuring Moog MG-1 + Synthesizers.com + Yusynth + MFOS step sequencing.

“Berlin School” synth music is music that’s inspired by the tradition of 70’s German electronic music pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Key characteristics include step-sequenced basslines, “spacey” effects, Moog synth leads and Mellotron pads.

Details below.

via Thalassa77:

Synthesizers.com and the MFOS Sequencer: main sequence

Moog Realistic MG-1 lead sounds.

Redtron : Mellotron Sounds.

No MIDI sequences were used , all was recorded on one take and no further mixing after recording, Everything is improvised,please forgive my mistakes ( a lot of them )

Sunday Synth Jam: Skoulaman created this live Berlin School/space music/ambient synthesizer jam.

Details via skoulaman:

Sequenced with an arpeggiator loop from the Kurzweil Midiboard connected with the Kawai k1r and the Waldorf micro Q. The solo vibe sounds are from a Yamaha CX5M computer and the Korg Lamda in combination with a Moogerfooger. Accords played om the Juno 106 and on the Korg Lamda.

Here are some impressions of the September Tour 2009 that Klaus Schulze did together with Lisa Gerrard.

via KlausSchulzeMusic:

Filmed by James L. Frachon – MyGale Films.Klaus will return live on the 20th and 21st of March 2010. Klaus will perform two nights Solo in Tokyo, Japan.

Sunday Synth Jam: this video captures a “midnight ambient performance”, featuring the sounds of the JX-305, two 03R/W, Prophecy and a Casio VZ-1.

via L00m33r

Sunday Synth Jam: This Berlin School style sequenced synth jam takes a few minutes to take off – but then the hypnotic synth sequences and guitar work really kick in.

via angelometz:

I started patching it when the power went down. I finished patching in the dark!

Synth music pioneer Klaus Schulze discusses and demonstrates his first synth, an EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer.

via Synthasy2000:

Klaus talks about, and demonstrates, his first synth.

It’s Sunday! That means we take a slight break from the non-stop electronic music news coverage and break out the Sunday Synth Jams – new and classic examples of musicians making interesting music with synths and electronic music gear.

You may have seen this one before, because it’s a vintage synth jam from 1977. But it’s Klaus Schulze at his Moogtacular prime…..

If you ever need a definition of Berlin School electronica, this is it!

Tune in, turn on and space out as Klaus Schulze plays live, WDR Köln 1977.

For Schulze fans only: Leave a comment and let me know what your favorite Schulze album is!

via OtixIbiza:

One of my first works as soundtechn. at german television WDR Köln 1977.

Sunday Synth Jam: This is a demo/Berlin School synth jam of the Moon Modular M569 Quad Sequential Voltage Source [Sequence Mode].

See the Moon Modular site for details on the M569.

via moonmodular

Changing sequence mode with RESET/SKIP/STOP and gates ON/OFF in row #4 (row #1-#3 are doing the basic job), finaly the SEQ. MODE switch set from 4-8 to 2-16 and 1-32. Master Midi clock – M553 – M563 – M569 drives an Oberheim Xpander (6 voices).

This is a teaser video for Retrotech, an electronic music concert composed and performed live by keyboardists Carlos Trilha and André Dessandes.

Retrotech recalls the “belle epoque” of electronic music.

Details:

On stage, Trilha and Dessandes use synthesizers, analogue sequencers and drum machines from the 70’s and early 80’s. These historical instruments evoke the origin of characteristic electronic sounds that are now widely used in many types of pop and electronic music.

A unique detail of this production is that they do not use loops or sound libraries. All the sounds are created from real instruments and are first generation, allowing Retrotech to make a striking reinterpretation of the classic sound of electronic music.

In addition, Retrotech also uses a special set of projection images from generative code (created in real time), synchronized by software written with MAX/MSP/JITTER by ALESSANDRA MARFISA specially for each performance.

Sunday Synth Jam: Proof that there is hope for an electronic music scene in Iowa: Blutiger Fluss performing their Klaus Schulze-esque Minima at Vaudeville Mews, June 27th, 2009.

via h0mrs1mpsn:

Sorry about the audio, we were playing pretty loud and the camera person was close to the stage.

Sunday Synth Jams: Here’s a step-sequenced modular synth jam, with an old-school psychedelic light show.

Back in the day, you didn’t have a modular synth jam without a psychedelic head trip light show. Listening to synth music wasn’t just about listening to some music – it was a mind-expanding experience.

Kudos to BT + Robert Rich +Robotpickle and everybody else that’s helping to keep this tradition alive!

via robotpickle:

cuz i deliver, muthafuckazsounds from my modular synthesizer AKU II

Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a little something for the fans of Berlin School electronic music – a nice sequenced synth jam, via attorks:

This theme is inspired by an arpeggiator from the Waldorf Q keyboard which I programmed as sequence to be performed by the Q. At first you hear a bass-like sound from the Creamware MiniMax ASB. After that the Synthesizers.com Modular and the self built Modular are added. At last the sequence from the Waldorf Q Keyboard is added. By varying the decay on the Q the sound becomes more lively.

The accompaniment is played on the Clavia Nord Lead 1 and the Roland XP-80.

Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s an ambient/space music jam, with a side of Berlin School sequencing, via Tom Bedlam:

Dark Equinox

Live performance 24.09.09.
Tom on all synths,Mellotron and programming.
Visuals by the Invisible Collage

Bedlam says that he’ s alive and reasonably sentient, and likes people who like to collaborate on musical projects. See his Vimeo page for more info and music videos.

This is a demo of the new Moon Modular Quad Sequential Voltage Source M569, a Moog style step sequencer, except that it has a maximum of 32 steps, in 4 independent banks.

See our previous Moon Modular M569 Step Sequencer post for details.

You can download a high-res pdf info sheet on the Quad Sequential Voltage Source M569 at the Moon Modular site.

via moonmodular

Here’s a treat for fans of old-school Berlin school synth music.

This video, by Quintin Hewlett, captures Electroluminescent (Ryan Ferguson) as part of the New Harbours Music Series vol. 2 Christ’s Church Cathedral, Hamilton, Ontario, Spring 2009.

This is a promo video for Klaus Schulze, feat. Lisa Gerrard on Tour, which kicks off in September 2009.

Dates below.

Klaus Schulze with Lisa Gerrard

Thursday, 17 September 2009
Warsaw (PL), “Royal Castle; Zamek Królewski”
(This is a closed “official” event. Therefore, tickets are not freely available)

Saturday, 19 September 2009
Berlin (D), “Tempodrom”
(Tickets)

Sunday, 20 September 2009
Amsterdam (NL), “Melkweg – Rabozaal”
(Tickets)

Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Essen (D), “Lichtburg”
(Tickets)

Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Paris (F), “La Cigale”
(Tickets) (Tickets)

Friday, 25 September 2009
Brussels (B), “Ancienne Belgique”
(Tickets)

Tickes will also be sold at the usual local advance ticket agencies (Vorverkaufs-Stellen).

Sunday Synth Jam: This Berlin school style synth jam, by retrosound, features Moog Minimoog + Roland JD-800 + TR-606.

You can tell it’s smokin’ by the flames at the end…..

via retrosound72:

vintage synth demo by RetroSound

pads und brass sounds: Roland JD-800
bassline: Lintronics Minimoog with Midi, sequenced by the MFB Step64 step sequencer and transposed by the Yamaha DX7 II FD
drums: Roland TR-606
FX: reverb and delay

Sunday Synth Jam: A little Berlin-school style fun from the German housewife mit die synthesizer, Synthiefrau.

And, if you’re a synthesist, Synthiefrau may just be your match:

Synthesizers are my life.

If I can two Synths take on a lonely Island, I want my Mini and my Dot.com Modular. The two are the best.

I want to marry a synthesist;-)))

via Synthiefrau

So, if you’re a synthesist…..

Synthtopia reader JRice sent word that we can do no wrong……as long as we post more of the Berlin School electronic music goodness.

“More is better!” he says.

With that in mind, check out this episode of the Small World podcast, which features an interview with Alpha Wave Movement’s Gregory Kyruluk.

The podcast, below, kicks of with an off the heezy Berlin School track. It continues with some interview segments with Kyruluk, some of his more ambient tracks, and then comes back with another heaping helping of the interlocking step sequences:

This is a must listen for old-school synth music/space music fans!

Via solipsistic, Image: blueforce4116