A live improvisation resulting in one of those happy accidents tweaking various parameters in a SynHCS patch editor session running on a Kaypro 2X CP/M computer while testing out a 1982 DK Synergy during major restoration after successfully building and installing one of the superb new Tauntek Synergy II+ upgrade kits.  This digital wonder was streets ahead of its time and remains easily my favourite vintage digital synth - every time I sit in front of one of these beasts it leaves me in awe with a deep respect for the talent and dedication of its creators at Digital Keyboards and Bell Labs in the late 1970s.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2021.

1982 DK Synergy II+: Binary Chaos Machine... (Tauntek Upgrades)

sg mm115_6

Track 13 from Aduaine's VA 'System Collapse'
Released February 14 2025
Label: Aduaine
Album: System Collapse (Various Artists)

Written/Produced by Johnny McDowell
Artwork by Aduaine
Mastering by sleepunderwriter

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"Aduaine starts off 2025 with a massive 16 track compilation that showcases a wide ranging sonic palette of electronic sounds from braindance to downbeat breaks to dub techno and everything in between. Aduaine regulars are featured, as are numerous other local synth maestros from Ireland. In addition some of our favourite artists and friends of the label from around the globe have come on board, each selected for their own unique style to complete this ambitious release.

Thanks to all the artists - Sadnoise, Lerosa, JP8080, CH415, Hex Tulpa, Human Behind Pluto, Brendon Moeller, Mause, Latchwork, Gesceap, Crispy Jason, Sleep Underwriter, cable.percussion, ZOiD, Peter Sweeney and Flathan

Available on tape cassette for 9 earth tokens. Shipping starts at the end of February.

Dedicated to the memory of JP8080, Árni Grétar."

System Collapse on Bandcamp: https://aduaine.bandcamp.com/album/system-collapse
Paraben on YouTube: https://youtu.be/o9s5Ize-4U4?si=a3B-b24oCQXOawm2

System Collapse

Paraben

Bandcamp

Track included in the nineteenth V.A compilation of People Can Listen Label (PCLVA019)
https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pclva-019-nineteenth-listen

released October 10, 2025

Mastering by Optionica: www.instagram.com/optionica_
Original photo by Dominique: www.instagram.com/dom_loves_photo

Deluxeional [PCLVA 019] Nineteenth Listen

"You don't have any respect for anything with knockers or a fanny."

"I believe the medical term is quim, inspector."

dr00m

FULL ANIMATED MOVIE AND BANDCAMP : https://band.link/quasiorganic


: The wind on the steppe, like a river so free —
: It flows, never turning to where it must be.
: Yet out in the vastness, it billows the sails
: Of a ship that aspires to rise past the veils.

: And woe to the sailor who never has dreamed
: Of days where his compass are brushes redeemed.
: His joy will be loved by the waves, vast and wide,
: Where he stays forever himself, free inside.


Directed by Lithobius Forficatus
Dedicated to Sheldon

inturbinate

ROKU041 - Paul Abbott - "OFF STAGE—WALK (B)" from SLIP

somehow (Eve Maret Remix)

Ghoul

flex funk

cosmic slow-dance for the evenings
shout out to Phrygians fr

Out on Bandcamp:
https://entire.bandcamp.com/track/crimson-groove

Crimson Groove (entire.bandcamp.com)

D.A.Wilson is an Electronic Engineer, Sound Designer & Vintage Synth Specialist with a particular interest in combining vintage tube, classic analog and modern digital technologies working as a synth engineer looking after a very considerable amount of vintage studio equipment for Will Gregory (Goldfrapp / Moog Ensemble) and a number of other internationally celebrated electronic musicians and producers.  Having undertaken several major restorations and produced custom electronic designs for a number of major artists including Jean-Michel Jarre, Dani is also known for fully restoring two out of the world's four remaining 1979 Crumar GDS and partially restoring 1938 Novachord 346 (the only known operational Novachord in the UK) to playable order along with developing and producing the new Elfin family of 8-bit polysynths and the popular MIDI Front Panel Animator (FPA), Filter Defeat Module (FDM) and XD-280 Drive Emulator upgrades for the AKAI S612 sampler.

Demos of the S612 Upgrades in Action: 

https://soundcloud.com/hideaway-studio/sets/hideaway-studios-s612-front


Hideaway Studio Kontakt Sound libraries may be purchased directly from: 
https://www.lootaudio.com/category/kontakt-instruments/hideaway-studios
 

..and a nice introduction by Cory Pelizzari to the Hideaway Studio Kontakt Libraries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-C7a3ChC9U&feature=emb_title


For more on releases from Hideaway Studio for Kontakt please visit the blog at:  www.hideawaystudio.net