Benge-Twenty_Systems_(1968-1988)-2008-BCC

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2009-01-12

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Artist  : Benge
Title   : Twenty Systems (1968-1988)
Genre   : Avantgarde
Year    : 2008
Date    : 01/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 20
Label   : Expanding Records ECDB1:08
Source  : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length  : 64:33 min
Size    : 83,4 MB


Tracklist:
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01.1968 - moog modular                    03:26
02.1969 - ems vcs3                        05:13
03.1970 - arp 2500                        03:08
04.1971 - arp 2600                        01:44
05.1972 - serge modular                   04:05
06.1973 - roland modular                  03:45
07.1974 - oberheim sem                    01:55
08.1975 - moog polymoog                   02:56
09.1976 - yamaha cs80                     03:49
10.1977 - yamaha cs30                     02:24
11.1978 - roland 100m                     04:11
12.1979 - korg lambda                     01:42
13.1980 - korg trident                    02:04
14.1981 - yamaha cs70m                    02:09
15.1982 - ppg wave                        02:04
16.1983 - fairlight cmi                   03:47
17.1984 - oberheim xpander                01:44
18.1985 - yamaha cx5m                     02:36
19.1986 - ned synclavier                  07:28
20.1987 - kawai k5m                       04:23
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                                          64:33 min



20 tracks, showcasing 20 different synthesizers, one
from each year, covering the period 1968-1988.
CD comes with a 54 page book.

Twenty Systems is the latest release from electronica
artist and Expanding Records founder Benge and
marks his tenth solo album. This project combines an
audio CD of new music with a full colour 60 page book
containing photos and diagrams of the electronic
instruments used, along with a detailed history
documenting the development of synthesisers between
1968 and 1988.

'Presented here are twenty pieces of music created on
twenty different synthesisers, one from each year
between 1968 and 1988. The purpose of this record is
to demonstrate the development of the the synthesiser
from the first commercially available systems in the late
1960s to the introduction of fully digital systems in the
late 1980s.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive history of
synthesisers. However, the listener will hopefully gain
some insight into the character of each instrument, and
on a more general level experience the evolving sound
of synthesis over the yearsWhat you hear on each track
is the pure sound of an individual instrument.
No additional processing, sequencing or effects were
applied to any of the recordings. If a system was equipped
with an in-built sequencer I made use of it on the particular
track, and I often used the process of recordingsound-on
-sound, where a track is made up of multiple layers of the
same synthesiser recorded in parallelTo put it simply, I
wanted to let the instruments speak for themselves as
much as possible; to let the instruments influence the
way I composed the pieces' Ben Edwards (Benge)


'A brilliant contribution to the archaeology of electronic
music' - Brian Eno

'Indicates what a deliriously desirable thing the synthesis
of soundhas historically been' - The Wire

'Absolutely cast iron irrefutable proof that synthesisers
are betterthan guitars' - Vice Magazine

http://www.expandingrecords.com/

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