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I dont know every new synth on the market but: Entry level: Tetra/Mopho (own it), Monologue (own it), Bass Station 2, 0-Coast. All have character and powerful pure sound. Rolands (boutiques) are mostly shit. Arturia minibrute etc are a bit weak and average, lack flexibility. Behringer are weak and thin, no character. OB6, Prophet 12, Doepfer Quantum, Digitone, Tasty Chips GR-1 are my favorite recent high end poly. All of this very subjective of course.

FM has been of the rise recently.DX7 scores higher prices than 5 years ago. But as for digi gear maybe but maybe not. Seems to be that lots of VST can do what Digi hardware can do and get some of the same flavours. The same is certainly not true for analogue gear. VA isnt cutting it. If you want analogue tone you need real analogue still imo. With a real analogue you dont need to mess with parameters 30 min to get a bass you get it in 5 seconds. So the fact that you need it hardware gives it a bit of an edge. No other way to get the sound than owning the machine. Of course there is always ergonomics and hands on advantages of having a hardware digi synth and every synth is unique but i dont know if its enough to boost the market that much. Hybrid synths tho are cool beasts. Analogue filters on digital osc are always quite interesting. Vintage market is obviously vastly overblown and ridiculous tho. In the end it's a rarity and fetishization thing. Every synth is unique, even VSTi and Digi and Clones and has its own tone. So if a particular synth is rare its gonna get expensive cause there is no other way to get this exact particular sound, especially in analogue and some are gonna fetishize this particular sound and will be willing to spend the money (on top of the collector factor). Not necessarily because its better. 303 is a good example. It's not a particularily mind blowing or flexible synth compared to a prophet 5 but its highly fetishized.

Oozepusher Oozing Hair Style, 2021 trend

''I was in Japan when Ultravisitor had just come out. I purchased it and took a walk with that CD and my Discman. Of course, Tokyo is a big city, but the vibe there has always felt small and enclosed to me. Walking around listening to that music, the city felt huge, free and open. Due to these types of feelings, I always think of recorded music as open or closed to some degree. For example, Aphex Twin's Richard D. James Album is closed, while Classics is open; Black Sabbath’s Master Of Reality is closed, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s is open. This experience with Ultravisitor in Tokyo was one of the most remarkable ways that music has ever altered the way I perceive my surroundings. It was as if Tokyo was somehow transformed into the feeling of open countryside. I've come to realize that this is because Ultravisitor is clearly one of the most open albums ever made. It makes the sky seem bigger.'' I so agree with Frusciante. Ultravisitor makes you feel vastness.

Air Guitared for the first time in years to Squarepusher Theme. Tom you lovely bastard.

Ive yet to be impressed by the sound of any Behringer synth. They sound weak. IMO.

Remember kids. Everytime you use your modular for simple arp sequences, Lord Buchla kills a kitten in heaven. sorryyyyyyyy but yeah you dont need a 5k modular for that a 5$ vst will do ok for those duties you know what im saying

i still like some of korn songs

Ding song is legit the worthy successor of chocolate rain EDIT @dingformung put it to music, you have to no i meant sequel to this one sorry

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peak WATMM moment

I keep spending to much money on art books.

Aphex Tim Hecker Gerald Donald Autechre Xanopticon Morton Subotnick Xenakis Squarepusher Basinski Mad Mike from UR so yeah lol make that a top 10

We Are The Baby Makers

Acceptable

Aphex Drukqs-era USB stick full of trx David Lynch, Dune director's cut

this is so good

People : ''give us innovative experimental trx Richard!!! really, AFX doesnt make edgy stuff like he use to! such a shame'' Richard: ''alright here is a bunch of crazy modular experiments'' People : ''wtf is this shit??? this is unlistenable'' lol joke aside This has probably the most experimental trx and sound experiments he has ever released. These short form modular snippets kinda remind me of some of the Delia Derbyshire compositions in their spirit. I want even more of those Buchlas experiments, i would take 20mins long form ( like AE did with NTS) of this stuff. Full untamed long form AFX modular trx.

Me and some people organized a 12 hour Droneday show in 2019.Probably one of the best event ive been part of. Was bloody lush and fun. We released a free comp for it, here it is, all Montreal people (drone,ambient,spacey experimental):

Less aggro edit: Love Arca to bits and lots of Sophie too. But lots of it is a bit too much of a Vengaboys 2.0 vibe for me.

Had the goal of learning it but started VCV rack and pretty much sidelined and use that instead haha it's a bit more direct and usable straight away BUT Max seems sooooo flexible and full of possibilities! Building nearly everything gives you such depth and precision! fuck i have to get back at it.

Hello fellow EKTers Here's some tunes that were released recently. Some noise infused melodic braindance: And some nocturnal slowjam microtonal doomfunk: May the lush be with you thx Bip

-one year and a half into a pandemic- : whats a dancing again?

Living painters i love (and that are all pretty famous/recognized): Frank Auerbach David Hockney Gerhard Richter Daniel Richter Cecily Brown Celia Paul Mark Bradford Anselm Kiefer Adrian Ghenie Peter Doig Pierre Soulages Tony Bevan John Virtue Paula Rego Some famous ones only died recently: Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Leon Kossoff for example.

damn i didnt know that was the case that really sucks