Track 3 Artist : Trap & Zoid Title : Gnomes evasion - 5:26 (320 kbps) Device : EMS Synthi A + Aria AD10 analog delay, recorded live in one take with Edirol R-09HR, unprocessed. Genre : live electronics / psychedelic / experimental Contact : http://www.myspace.com/trapandzoid Location : Brussels, Belgium
Track 5 Artist: Sam Samshuijzen Title: Simple - 2:55 (320 kbps) Device: Modified EMS Synthi AKS Randrum pulse generator/divider for the returned ES triggering of the synthi 4 track analog tape recorder Remixed with a digital system into a 4 channel composition (4C). This is the stereo mix of those 4 (2C). Done in Studio Denkraam, Ede NL, 1980. It's called simple, because it makes basic use of a sequence voltage for one oscillator, while playing the realtime voltage to another oscillator simultaneously. Genre: Electronic Contact: http://www.xs4all.nl/~samzen/ Location: Netherlands
Track 8 Artist: Werd Title: Smirk - 1:44 (320 kbps) Device: EMS Synthi A & Roland Space Echo 201 Genre: Exp.,broadcasted in 1979 by radio KRO Hilversum 4 "Collage van Alledaags en Zeldzaam" Contact: http://werdav.tripod.com/index.html Location: Netherlands
Track 11 Artist: THM Title: Setting Sun - 6:45 (320 kbps) Device: EMS Synthi AKS (London UK model from 1975), only some Roland RE-301 Chorus Echo and SRV-330 Reverb added; recorded and processed digitally via Cubase 4 Genre: Space Music / Ambient Drone Contact: http://www.myspace.com/thmsynthfreak thm[at]pandora.be Location: Belgium
Track 13 Artist: Alka Title: Interrupt Structure - 3:57 (320 kbps) Device: EMS Synthi Mk1 AKS partially processed through the Elektron Machinedrum SPS1 UW Mk2. Further processing and recording through Apple Logic Pro. Genre: Electronic / Glitch / Experimental Contact: http://www.reverbnation.com/buryn Location: USA
Track 18 Artist: Splitradix Title: Harmony Suitcase - 4:37 (320 kbps) Devices: EMS Synthi A, Roland TR808, Sequential Circuits Pro One, Roland System 100 101, Roland SH101, Roland MKS80, Roland RE301 Genre: Electro Contact: http://www.myspace.com/splitradix Location: Berlin, Germany
Track 19 Artist: Level-Repeat Title: Syncophant - 5:32 (320 kbps) Device: Live Performance using a modified EMS Synthi AKS. Making heavy use of oscillator sync. Genre: Experimental Contact: http://www.myspace.com/levelrepeat Location: United Kingdom
Synopsis: Formed in 1969, Electronic Music Studios (EMS)
quickly became innovators for the recording, production and advancement
of electronic music. The ideas and designs that bubbled forth out of
the ingenuitive minds of Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David
Cockerell and others, led to the creation of some of the most wildly
original musical / sound design equipment ever conceived. The VCS3,
Synthi A + AKS, Synthi 100, Synthi E, Synthi Logik and the Soundbeam
are among these, almost unworldly, devices.
It is often said EMS gear has attained cult status, reaching a fervor of near worship among its users. The Synthi Group
is an example and collection of such users. United through the Synthi
blog and forum (www.thesynthi.de) and located throughout the world, the
group's members have come together for a planned series of compilation
volume releases where the individuality and approach of each member
towards their EMS instrument is showcased and broadcasted for all to
experience. The listener will hear wildly different examples of styles
and sounds that this original, and oft times, vintage equipment can
create.
EMS were true pioneers from the very beginning, always
looking beyond the culture and times they were surrounded and seemingly
trapped in. Still around today, thanks to Robin Wood and Ludwig
Rehberg, they are one of the few companies involved with electronic
instrument production that have had a continued run since their
inception. The Synthi Group have honed the original pioneering spirit
and DIY ethic of EMS with their Volume series, a collection of sounds
encompassing beautiful dreamscapes, synaesthetic visions, dark
ambience, aural abstractions, sonic absurdities, pulsating analog,
glitch, ring modulators, and envelope shapers generating trapezoidal
geometry. Beginning with Volume 1, the Synthi Group compilations aim to
ensure the story of EMS continues well into the future of electronic
music production. (Synopsis by Alka)