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Jackie Cohen & Jonathan Rado answer some Q's pertaining to their new project, Café Fear.

A-trak's new EP features the SP-1200. He answers some interview questions here.

Synth History Podcast E2 on Roland & Ikutaro Kakehashi out now.

Ela Minus shares her hardware setup and more in this interview.

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6 days ago
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Interview With Café Fear (Jackie Cohen and Jonathan Rado)

Jackie Cohen and Jonathan Rado are quite the husband and wife team. The two have collaborated on a new project dubbed Café Fear. Jackie's 2019 album, Zagg, I had on repeat - loaded with fun tunes to dance the night away - and Jonathan is one half of indie-rock duo Foxygen, and has produced for numerous artists including The Lemon Twigs, Tim Heidecker, Weyes Blood, The Killers and more. I had the pleasure of asking them a few quick Qs down below. Synth History: What is the pro

Jun 20
2 min

Interview With A-Trak

A modern day legend in the DJ and dance music community, A-Trak is a DJ, turntablist, record producer, and record label executive. His EP 10 Seconds Vol. 2 (the second half of 10 Seconds Vol. 1) is out on June 22nd. It's a two-part EP of stripped down awesomeness, named after the notoriously short sample time of the E-mu SP-1200. Synth History: Let’s talk about the SP-1200. What are your favorite features - and where did you find this legendary piece? A-Trak: My favorite thin

Jun 7
1 min

Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto

Pretty amazing video of legendary duo Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto, an artist and creator of several anime and manga series. Leiji Matsumoto supervised the creation of several music videos for Daft Punk set to tracks from their album Discovery. These videos were issued end-to-end (making a full-length animated movie) on a DVD release titled Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem. Interstella 5555 tells the story of the abduction and rescue of an interstellar p

Jun 6
12 min

Jean-Philip Grobler AKA St. Lucia Recommends + Interview

Here are some in depth studio essentials from the talented Jean-Philip Grobler, who makes music under the moniker of St. Lucia, complete with coinciding studio photos and a little interview to top it off. In the Recommends Series, I ask music-makers what their studio essentials are. This can be anything, from cables to software to things that generally inspire them to create. Without further ado… 1. Minimoog Model D A few years ago I snagged one of the reissues right when Moo

Interview With Café Fear (Jackie Cohen and Jonathan Rado)

Interview With A-Trak

Daft Punk and Leiji Matsumoto

Jean-Philip Grobler AKA St. Lucia Recommends + Interview

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