Name: EMS Synthi 111214 by Alessandro Cortini
Duration: 7 min 58 s
Description: Synthi A driven by KS keyboard/sequencer.recorded live.

Track is taken from the album Demo Tapes 1984-86 (out 25 June)

Most of the tracks on this album were recorded with a basic stereo (2-track) cassette recorder. The studio set-up looked more or less like this: a drum computer (no Midi) and a sequencer were connected to each other and synchronized rhythmically. I crafted melodic sequences and rhythms and usually transposed them to the desired pitch manually, using the keyboards. Other live instruments were played over the top. Then everything, the sum of all the sound sources, was put together in a kind of "live recording" with the aid of a mixing desk. Just a single mistake would mean having to start all over again. Reconfiguring many of the sounds once the controls had already been adjuste was a painstaking process. I ended up with heaps of cassettes, often featuring seemingly endless versions and variations of the same track. Demo Tapes 1984-86 by Heiko Maile includes a selection from his beginnings of electronic music and the bizarre sonic worlds he inhabited.

Demo Tapes 1984-86

Beat For Ikutaro (Tape. 52)

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Heiko Maile - Beat For Ikutaro (Tape 52)

If you download these mixes to listen to later, please pop back here and click the remixers you're into some love for their work before the 26th of May. The remixer with the most heart then wins a Keith McMillen controller and some Plaid swag, http://tinyurl.com/myannzy The original version of Tether can be heard and played with via Jono Brandel's web app, http://tether.plaid.co.uk and is included on our album, Reachy Prints, http://warp.net/records/plaid/new-album-reachy-prints

Tether [2ndMOUSE Remix]

Final 15 - A Ghostly 15 Playlist Curated by Michael Cina

"Anyone that knows me, knows that my main passion is music. I spend all day listening to music at work and my vinyl collection of 16k pieces greets me when I get home. I knew about Ghostly International before they contacted me in the early 2000’s and we would write off and on. They used to send me big packages of white labeled vinyl, it was decadent.

Late 2007 I got a call from Ghostly asking if I was up for designing a new single for Dabrye. It was a dream come true and I feel like I found a friend who really understood me. I have had the distinct privilege to design over 100 covers for Ghostly, and that is only the half of it.

When they asked me to do a compilation, I was all about it. I wanted to do three or more compilations because I wanted to segment it up into different sections (Ghostly, SMM and Spectral). It is impossible to reduce the entire label to 15 tracks. Ghostly is dynamic, they don’t fit one sound, genre or idea.

So I approached it as a mixtape of sorts. I tried to find a common thread that spoke to me and create a mood around that idea. Some of my favorite tracks are not on here. JDSY 'Horizon Line' makes my head spin. Choir of Young Believers 'Paralyse' takes me to another place. There are so many more.

What you are hearing some songs that have spoken to me over the years in a distinct way. I don’t feel like they are obvious choices but they all are nothing short of amazing. I hope this compilation helps you see a different side of one of the best labels to ever do it." - Michael Cina

Tim Hecker - Sundown6093

Synthi A driven by KS keyboard/sequencer.recorded live.

EMS Synthi 111214

This was given to me by James Izzo (Thread) back in 1999. It is unclear as to which song or songs he has remixed by Pan Sonic (Panasonic back then).  RIP James, you're missed.

Pan Sonic, "unknown (Thread remix)"

Speedy J - Fill 4 (REMASTERED) Ginger LP - 1992 (EDLXB008)

Depending On Your Mood

Moon Wheel — Patience

James Shinra is back to the game, embracing his classic trademark of electro, acid braindance and addictive synth-laden tracks. ’Supernova EP’ is operating in new and uncharted ways. Absolutely insane!
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+++ OUT MARCH 2018 +++
PREORDER WHITE VINYL + DIGITAL: https://goo.gl/1PLMSp
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AF012 
JAMES SHINRA 
SUPERNOVA EP 
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A1 SUPERNOVA 05:49 
A2 RUNN 05:39 
B1 NEBULA 05:09 
B2 INTERSTELLAR 05:11 
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©+Ⓟ Analogical Force 2018. All rights reserved. 
Written and produced by James Clarke somewhere in UK. 
Mastering at Eternal Midnight, Madrid. 
Artwork by David O’Brien at Imposing Kittens, Dublín. 
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam. 
www.clone.nl

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[AF012] JAMES SHINRA 'SUPERNOVA EP' [2018]

We can't say enough how much we love this New Waveish synth pop tune. Basso find!

"Intersection With Loneliness" - Ungoogleable Private Press LP - Germany, 1984

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EMS Synthi 111214

Alessandro Cortini

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