Synths & Psychedelia
A collection celebrating the cosmic union of electronic and psychedelic music
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An Oral History of Animal Collective → Tracing the psychedelic contrails of a 21st century great
FAX: Space, Synths and Stubbornness → A reflection on Pete Namlook’s sprawling label
Studio Science: Mark Verbos on Designing Modular Synths
Synth Superheroes Trading Cards → Aphex Twin, Suzanne Ciani, Sun Ra, Legowelt, Kate Bush and more greats assemble
Synthedelia: Psychedelic Electronic Music in the 1960s
David Van Koevering and the Island of Electronicus → How a traveling salesman took the psychedelic experience across America selling Moog synthesizers
Buchla: The Synth Designer Who Changed Music
Studio Science: Suzanne Ciani on the Buchla
White Noise → In the late ’60s, David Vorhaus created one of the most experimental albums of the tumultuous decade
Minimoog: The First Truly Portable Synthesizer
Psychedelic Techno Gurus → How counter-culture icons of the first Summer of Love came to be included in the dance music of the second
The Space Lady, In Her Own Words
The Synthesizer That Sparked A Digital Revolution
Bruce Haack: A Psychedelic Canadian Electronic Innovator
The Hal of Gnawa
Studio Science: Morton Subotnick on His Buchla Synthesizer
When Malcolm Cecil Met Stevie Wonder
Gerald Mueller’s Electronic Music Lab: Meet the Man Who Taught Patrick Cowley How to Use a Synthesizer