Microscopics

Here are the winners in our recent spot the synthesizer (and other gear) competition

The competition was to name as much gear from the above video of the Gas studio from around 1999. These are the three winners who will each receive the Gas 0095 album on CD+Flac24+MP3.
Pichenettes
BUS
Rold B
One that was tricky for some was the [...]

Here’s a video of the old Gas studios taken around 1999 or 2000.
The video is quite blurry, so it’s a good way to test your synthesizer naming/ geeking skills. Name all the gear you can in the comments and I’ll send three copies of Gas 0095 on CD+MP3+Flac24 to the three geeks who guess/ identify the [...]

John Carpenter, film-maker and electronic musician, predicted the Yamaha Tenori-On back in 1981. In his film, Escape from New York, which was shot in 1981 and set in the bleak future of 1997, he predicted that by 1997 all government agencies would have their own Tenori-on visual sequencer. It still needed a little more work [...]

I decided to treat myself for my birthday (Friday 26th) and bought a vintage phaser from eBay to add to my SX-150 in the Gas / High Skies studio. Of course the combination of the Post Office and being from 1975 killed it on arrival, but when it does make noise, it makes gloriously vintage [...]