Optigan.com has announced a new Philip Glass-inspired Minimalism Optigan disc, featuring the vocal talents of Tara Busch (Analogsuicide.com):

We’re proud to announce the latest in our series of new Optigan discs: MINIMALISM! This is a special release for us, since it marks our first musical collaboration with the fabulous Tara Busch of AnalogSuicide.com. Tara sang the vocal solfege scale for the keyboard, a haunting sound that you’re sure to find plenty of uses for.

The Optigan is a bizarre 70’s musical instrument/music toy that’s features an electomechanical optical sound generator.

It’s available for pre-order now, for $99.99.

Details below.

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Now available for pre-order at http://www.optigan.com/shoptigan

Here’s a hot new sound for the 1970s, straight from New York City! Mesmerizing musical kaleidoscopes throb from East Village loft windows and trendy art gallery doors, where less is definitely more More MORE! And you can be right there on the scene with the new Optigan Minimalism
program disc!

Your left hand conducts a tight ensemble of organ, flute, saxophones and bass clarinet- pulsing bass on the special effect tabs, and whirling arpeggios on the chord buttons. Your right hand plays vocal solfege melodies, sung for you by none other than Tara Busch of AnalogSuicide.com!

So fill up your glass and take a deep, satisfying gulp from the sonic ocean of Minimalism!

Performance Notes:

The Optigan Minimalism program disc was arranged specifically to allow for a large variety of extended harmonies by pressing two or more chord buttons simultaneously. For instance, holding down C Maj and E Min will produce a C Maj7 chord. G Maj and D Min combined will produce a G9
chord. Also, since the basslines on the special effects tabs contain no thirds, they can be used equally well in major or minor keys. Let your own imagination be your guide, and make your own kind of music!

Music arrangement and production by Pea Hicks
Vocal solfege scale sung and recorded by Tara Busch
Disc creation software, disc production cover artwork and jacket layout by Robert Becker

Rhythms: 4/4
LEFT HAND: Electric organ, flute, saxophones, bass clarinet.
RIGHT HAND: Female vocal solfege.
SPECIAL EFFECTS SWITCHES: 1. Bb Bass 2. F Bass 3. C Bass 4. G Bass 5. D
Bass.

It’s full of nature’s goodness:

Designed by Rehan Fernando at phizuu, the application contains copious content designed by Maf Lewis (films and photos) and of course music by me including 3 free songs from my Tummy Touch Records debut, Pilfershire Lane.

You can also access AnalogSuicide.com and my latest tweets via your iPhone. Pretty Groovy, eh?

Music, photos, videos, free……

Here’s the second in Tara Busch’s videos documenting her work remixing Flavor, by Tori Amos.

This video takes a look at her experiments with Amos’s piano stems.

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I spent a lot of time with Tori’s incredible piano files.

Analogsuicide’s Tara Busch snagged a couple of remix jobs for Tori Amos, and she plans to document the process with a series of videos.

It’s a cool opportunity for Busch, and will be an interesting opportunity for fans of retro synths and remixing to follow along with Busch’s work.

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Tori gets the Tara Busch and Analogsuicide treatment. Tori Is probably my favorite artist of all time so I don’t really have to mention what a privilege it is to be asked to remix her music.

Tara Busch’s new boxed set for her album Pilfershire Lane rates pretty high on the synth geek-o-meter, featuring miniature versions of some classic synth gear.

In this video, she takes a look at the Pilfershire Lane Boxed Set.

More info here.

Synthtopia regular, blogger, remixer and synth geek chanteuse Tara Busch sends word about a very cool limited edition box set of her debut album, Pilfershire Lane:

Maf (Lewis) & I were given the freedom to fill the box with whatever our hearts could dream up.

As the album was complete, Maf let rip his exquisite design sensibilities to come up with 3 more luscious gems with which to fill the box:

• a one off Polaroid 600 photo
• a beautiful 16mm film and, last but not least
• a stainless steel pop- up model of my stage set-up with interchangeable face plates for the synths. This also includes a recordable mini sampler circuit for the model, complete with a microphone and speaker..

The pop up model is presented in the box as a kit that you get to assemble (And of course we encourage all the circuit bending & hot rodding & modding to your hearts content!)!

This thing looks like $50 of cool.

Busch has put together some great music on Pilfershire Lane and, with Lewis, has come up with fun artifacts for the box set. Putting a Polaroid and the film segment in the box makes each set unique. And the pop-up model lets you complete a process that Lewis and Busch started.

Details on the box set below. And, if you’re not familiar with Busch’s music , check out her video for This Is Love.

Here’s what’s in Busch’s box set:

• CD Copy of Tara Busch’s debut solo album, Pilfershire Lane, with deluxe digipack cover.
• A 7″ × 7″ stainless steel mini popup stage set. This includes working microphone, speaker and circuit with record and play feature. The set comes with popup Korg MS-20 and Minimoog, but also included are interchangeable stainless steel face plates for the Buchla 200e, MacBeth M5, Analogue Solutions Vostok, ARP Odyssey, Micromoog and Moog Etherwave Theremin.
• A 100th cut strip of a 16MM B&W film created specifically for the box set. This 16mm movie is the only copy that will ever exist and is cut equally between the 100 boxes.
• An original one-off Polaroid 600 picture of Tara taken at her studio in Los Angeles.
• Certificate Of Authenticity signed and numbered by the artist
• All in a beautifully made 7″ × 7″ × 2″ rigid cardboard box.

The box set is limited to 100, and is available at Tummy Touch records for £29.99, which includes shipping any where in the world.

Tracks:

• Over The Radio
• Pilfershire Lane
• Third Speed
• Imaginary Audience
• Superfriends
• Get Drunk & Fuck
• Pour The Bottle
• Tag
• This is Love
• We Can See Mars

The remix, for Catherine AD’s Carry Your Heart, comes via the WearsTheTrousers. Here’s what they have to say about it:

Tara Busch is at it again. Just a few weeks after her genius reworking of the Bat For Lashes hit ‘Daniel’, she’s turned in a typically complex, multilayered remix of recent Catherine AD single, ‘Carry Your Heart’. The second in a series of remixes that Catherine is gathering together for a free EP, it follows last week’s intensely atmospheric Sweet Billy Pilgrim remix of the previously unreleased ‘Hand To The Tide’ (also free to download below) and is every bit as transformative.

Described by Catherine herself as “mad as a hat stand: a Disney-shaped hat stand”, Tara has put her bank of analogue organs and synths to good use, cleverly reworking the main keyboard melody with a beautifully simple motif of layered flutes and other goodies, interspersed with various bursts of fizzing synths, a clanging bell and all manner of futuristic squelches beamed in from a galaxy of emptiness. Like paying a visit to the singing roses of Wonderland after a midsummer nap in the poppy fields of Oz, Tara’s distant coos and mutterings are a lovely added touch.

Make sure you visit the site because there’s another Catherine AD remix, for the track Hand To The Tide, and some video action to boot.

AnalogSuicide’s Tara Busch has started a new project, Free MP3 Monday, to highlight great indie electronic music. Here’s what she’s got in mind:

Use the wonderful audio file sharing network, Soundcloud.com to send me your MP3s. The Soundcloud.com Dropbox is on the top left of Analogsuicide. Click there, follow the instructions for uploading your file.

I will post my pick of the URLs on Twitter and Analogsuicide.com for people to listen to & scoop up as they please. Note: the more drenched in bleeping, blipping, screeching, trippy, synth – drenched loveliness, the better!

She has featured some very nice music already, including her own cover of Our House (Madness), above; an experimental ambient techno track from Create Digital Music’s Peter Kirn, below; and an ambient soundscape from Moog’s Chris Stack, bottom.

Don’t miss Synthtopia’s music sharing group, too!

Tara Busch has created a trippy analogue remix of Bat for Lashes‘ Daniel and has documented the process in a 9-part series of videos:

Armed with a delicious arsenal of stems from Natasha including Linn Drums, an SCI Prophet 5 & a tear-soaked lead vocal to die for, I set about with the intention to create a remix that would showcase the childlike, deeply emotional characteristics of the lead vocal whilst creating a bed of sonic swoops, ferocious fuzz and sweet blips and bleeps for the vocal to travel in.

Backing vocals and select bits of the lead vocal were lovingly run through a Moogerfooger 102 & 104Z to create an “unsettling” contrast to the sweet lead vocal, and my trusty Pro One was employed to create a snarling, demonic lead synth line. My Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Mellotron MKII strings and flutes held the fairy-like quality intact .

Finally, after much tweaking, stirring, seasoning and singing, “Tara Busch’s AnalogSuicide Mix” was born.

This is a must-watch series that puts you in the studio with Busch as she plays, sings and arranges the remix. Busch shares both her process and the thoughts behind her approach in creating evil Pro One shrieking, recording a rainstorm and processing the vocals through a Moogerfooger MF 102.

You can download the remix here (email form required).

Mike Walters demos the Mystery Circuits Breadbox Synth,

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Filmed in spring, 2006, Mike introduces us to some sweet tweeks from the Mystery Circuits Breadbox Synth.

AnalogSuicide’s Tara Busch has been busy.

She wowed us yesterday with This Is Love and she’s released several more videos, including this gorgeous Imaginary audience (16mm).

More at tarabusch on YouTube.

“I love analog gear, but more than the gear I love what you can do with it,” – Tara Busch.

This is Love – give synth goddess Tara Busch’s retrotastic new video a view and I’m sure you’ll agree.

Exquisite, moody, classic: it’s a simple video that’s a perfect match for the song.

Let me know what you think!

More videos from Tara Busch here. Read Tara Busch’s mind here. Synth goddess cheesecake photos here.

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Analog Suicide’s ever awesome Tara Busch does a little Jimi Hendrix style noise shredding on her synth, first tormenting it into submission, and then performing analogue mouth-to-mouth on it.

It looks like she’s updated her site, too, so don’t miss checking it out.

Tara Busch of Analog Suicide has a new show over at Sonic State.

In the first episode, Tara takes a look at Dan Mcpharlin’s miniature cardboard synths, an eerie old Welsh pump organ and footage of the very first Storytone Electric piano.

What’s not to like?

Congrats to Tara on the new show!

AnalogSuicide’s Tara Busch checks out the miniature synth artwork of Dan McPharlin at the LA Modernism exhibit in Santa Monica, CA.

This video, by Maf Lewis and Tara Busch, is the first of AnalogSuicide.com’s 2-part series with Graham Massey of 808 State and Sisters Of Transistors.

Tara Busch – Switched on Mellotron!

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Tara gives us a giddy tour through the tummy of the magnificent beast known as the new Mellotron. Thanks to Big City Music!!!