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Pete Fowler recommended Zero Time by Tonto's Expanding Head Band in Music (curated)

 
Zero Time by Tonto's Expanding Head Band
Zero Time by Tonto's Expanding Head Band
1971 | Electronic
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"Tonto's Expanding Head Band were very early synth adopters. Tonto was an acronym for The Original New Timbral Orchestra which was a reference to what they worked on: the biggest polyphonic analogue synth in the world. Tonto was almost like a cockpit of synths arranged in a horseshoe shape. When they played it, they were inside the machine. Zero Time was hugely influential, most notably on Stevie Wonder who heard it, freaked out and asked them to produce his records. They ended up doing Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale. They also did a load of Isley Brothers records, including 3 + 3. Zero Time borders on New Age in a way. I'd never really heard music like this before – totally instrumental, the whole record composed on synths. I saw them live when they played at the Big Chill festival in 2006. I hadn't known they were playing [a line-up consisting of the band's Malcolm Cecil and his son, DJ Moonpup, with a portable version of Tonto performed]. It was amazing, even if it was a bit odd because they interspersed songs with educational stuff, little bits of interviews with Stevie Wonder and other people they'd worked with. It worked though – what a show!"

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The Craggus (360 KP) rated The Equalizer 2 (2018) in Movies

Aug 19, 2018  
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
2018 | Action, Mystery
7
7.5 (24 Ratings)
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The Equalizer 2 (2018) may take some odd turns but evens out into a solid vigilante thriller. #Review
I’m enough of a fan of the original TV show “The Equalizer” to wish Antoine Fuqua had found a way to incorporate Stewart Copeland’s superb synth-driven theme tune into this modern reinterpretation. But my favourite part of the TV series was always the helping out of ‘the little guy’ rather than the bigger, over-arching spycraft arcs. It’s in this area that “The Equalizer 2” unexpectedly delights even as it leads to a slightly meandering story on screen... FULL REVIEW: http://bit.ly/CraggusEqualizer2
  
    Novation Launchkey

    Novation Launchkey

    Music and Lifestyle

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    Novation Launchkey is a powerful and unique synthesiser for iPad. Launchkey includes 80 exciting...

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Alex Wolff recommended Channel Orange by Frank Ocean in Music (curated)

 
Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
Channel Orange by Frank Ocean
2012 | Rock
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I’ve been listening to Channel Orange, and you know everyone has loved that album but I didn’t really get into it, and I am about to start this movie and it’s getting me into the zone of this movie. It’s just like really cool and it’s just a thefty album and just fucking cool. Man, there is the perfect synth and everything just tastes delicious on that album. The way everything blends, you just want to ride a car; it’s the opposite of Joey Bada$$ or Action, you just want to open the window and it to be hot and sunny, and listen to this guy be depressed."

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Tyondai Braxton recommended Multistability by Mark Fell in Music (curated)

 
Multistability by Mark Fell
Multistability by Mark Fell
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"Revelatory meditations on a classic FM synth sounds. The end of an era and the beginning of one. I came to his music maybe later in my life, and he's one of those guys where you just slap your head and go "Oh man, how have I not known about this guy?" Only in the last couple of years have I approached him. He does micro-electronic stuff, kind of like preceded a lot of labels that have since flourished with that, like Raster-Noton and Editions Mego. What he's done - and I think this must be a running theme of things that I like – as far as liberating an idea from its historical context. Like Feldman and Varese, it's him taking these dance sounds, these FM synth sounds that you hear in techno even, and isolating them, turning them into this simple object which is hanging on your wall. And in doing so, it's reduced to something so pure that it's profound and it's absurd. And it's powerful and funny. It's so simple, the idea behind it. Production-wise, he has his own methodology that I'm not too sure about. It's not basic, but it's so obvious in its clarity, that it makes you ask, "How has someone not done this already?" So profound in a way. It's so simple, this idea. It's literally one pulsing sound. You understand it, but you are thinking "How do I listen to this? What is it for?""

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    Ruismaker

    Ruismaker

    Music

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    >> Ruismaker requires iPad 4, Mini 2, iPhone 5S or higher << What the reviews say: "A must-have...

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CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated On the Corner Where You Live by The Paper Kites in Music

Jun 5, 2019 (Updated Jun 5, 2019)  
On the Corner Where You Live by The Paper Kites
On the Corner Where You Live by The Paper Kites
2018
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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https://chillfiltr.com/blog/2018/7/31/the-paper-kites-deep-burn-blue
                            

This one feels just a bit throwback at first, with the analog-sounding synth on 8th-note repeat, and the guitar reverb has that little hint of Miami Vice. But then the baritone vocal hits, and then the alto harmony, and the whole song starts feeling warm and blanket-like, with a slightly muted band sound tucked under a wooly delay-reverb.

By the end: the hook is etched into your brain, the vocals feel like the pondering sound of your own inner vision, and the drums feel underwater. This song is a simple, infectious melody, delivered with impeccably groomed vocals, and a smooth late-night catharsis.