Primele sintetizatoare analogice au fost construite între anii 1920 și 1930, printre ele fiind și Trautonium, un instrument muzical electronic și monofonic dezvoltat în 1929 de către Friedrich Trautwein în Berlin în laboratorul Rundfunkversuchstelle al institutului de muzică și radio Musikhochschule. Lui i s-a alăturat Oskar Sala și au continuat să dezvolte sintetizatoare până în anul 2002. Cei doi au prezentat public Trautonium-ul în data de 20 Iunie 1930 la Musikhochschule Hall din Berlin în cadrul unui spectacol intitulat “Neue Musik Berlin 1930″.
Adevărata revoluție a sintetizatoarelor analogice însă a venit la începutul anilor 60 după inventarea tranzistorilor. Un aport semnificativ l-a avut Robert Arthur “Bob” Moog prin creearea legendarelor sale sintetizatoare Moog. Succesul comercial al acestor “ciudate” noi instrumente s-a produs în 1968 cu lansarea albumului “Switched-On Bach” de către casa de discuri Columbia al artistului Wendy Carlos (responsabil și de coloana sonoră al faimosului film al lui Stanley Kubrick “Clockwork Orange” în 1972, lansat sub numele de Walter Carlos).
Cele mai faimoase sintetizatoare analogice au fost produse de Moog, ARP, Roland, Korg și Yamaha.
Pe lângă sunetul specific oferit de tranzistori, una din caracteristicile importante ale sintetizatoarelor analogice este și incorporarea în instrument a diferitelor efecte, filtre și oscilatoare, printre care și a filtrelor low-pass (joase) și high-pass (înalte) prin care se obțin modificări substanțiale ale sunetului. Read more Arturia MiniBrute – o bruta analogica la un pret digital
How many skins they will keep ripping off of MJ? Pretty sordid and kind of necrophiliac. Epic Records on 9th May will release the second posthumous compilation album of previously unreleased tracks entitled “Xscape” and MJ now it’s kind of back in the spotlight. So, Sporty-O & Kisskaya considered it’s a brilliant idea to desecrate a classic MJ track, the 1987’s single “Leave Me Alone”. It would be much better and decent to leave the dead king of the pop alone and do not dishonor his memory. And don’t get me wrong, I do not like MJ, I never did and except a very few songs, I didn’t enjoy his music, although I admit he was a great entertainer and showman.
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult rose to fame at the end of the 80’s by their hard beats, distorted vocals, dense and contorted instruments and bizarre film samples. It was something burlesque and something wicked about their music, something genuine. It was the troubled age of post-new wave and the dawn of the hard-industrial revolution and Franke Nardiello (aka Groovie Mann) with Marston Daley (aka Buzz McCoy) managed to merge efficiently the disco bass with the rocking wah-wah guitars and dabbling in some big bad burlesque brass. Some say that they are met over a few drinks in a bar in Chicago and soon find themselves touring with the band Ministry.
I have written about this Italian band long-long time ago, true in a different language, can find that article 
If Syd Barrett would still be around and doing records, probably he would play the things John Frusciante play. A brilliant, but sometimes disturbing game of motions and emotions beyond the horizon we generally dare to explore. Sometimes there is no line between madness and genius.
“Psychomagia” is the new album by the fabulous quartet of Abraxas, the follow up of the 2012’s “Abraxas: Book of Angels Volume 19”, the debut album by led by Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz performing compositions from John Zorn’s second Masada book, “The Book of Angels”.
It is the third album by instrumental progressive (metal) group Animals as Leaders, introducing new drummer Matt Garstka along guitarists Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes. Three years after “Weightless” the band sound fresh and feels explosive. Wicked riffs, complex rhythmic structures and build-up, nice harmonic breakdowns and surprising turns are all part of their arsenal. Although I like jazz and instrumental jazz albums, I generally don’t like instrumental rock albums. Animals As Leaders have the creativity and intensity to capture my attention and it’s always a pleasure to take the ride through their albums. Song by song they build-up vivid, unexpected spaces and the mixture of sounds and styles their perform it’s outside the box, above genres. Between the subtle shades of “Air Chrysalis” and the heavy tones of “Tooth And Claw”, Animals As Leaders mix and merge 
