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Sunday Synth Jams: A faithful cover of Jean Michel Jarre’s Oxygene 13, played by GroovBird.

Three things to note about this video:

  • GroovBird proves you don’t have to have awesome vintage gear to play classic synth music, if you’ve got some good gear and, more importantly, a good ear.
  • Oxygen 13 was released in 1997, 20 years after Jarre’s original Oxygène, yet it matches the original album seamlessly.
  • Jarre is one of the few artists that explicitly authorizes and encouragse fans to make covers and cover videos of his music for non-commercial use. Kudos to Jarre for a classy call on that.

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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! Read more…

 

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This video captures the audio from a 1978 Crumar Orchestrator Synthesizer Demo Disc.

The Crumar Orchestrator is a vintage keyboard synthesizer that’s very limited in what it can do, but what it does it does very well. It’s polyphonic, and built like a tank.

See this great collection of Crumar Orchestrator photos on Flickr, too.

via jafafah0ts:

A vintage 1978 demo record promoting the Crumar Orchestrator electronic synthesizer.

 

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This is a demo of the Steelphon S900 synthesizer, a rare Italian monosynthesizer from the early seventies. If you have any info on the Steelphon S900 synth, leave a comment!

More demos below. Read more…

 

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Earlier in the day, we brought you the Jonzun Crew – what Daft Punk would have looked like in 1983.

Little did we know that Torley would dig up a proto-Daft Punk from 6 years earlier!

This is Space, performing Magic Fly in 1977. More Space madness below! Read more…

 

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