Korg Arp

The Attic : a project to document and sample interesting, characterful instruments that may not always be the obvious choice when we think of classics. Instruments which, when added to a track, instantly add some special magic, even if it is due to the fact that it sounds a bit cheap or quirky.

Classic Synthology from Loopmasters is a nostalgic trip back in time to the hot and sweaty cable strewn studios of yesteryear, when analogue synthesisers and rhythm machines resembling overgrown calculators carved out a whole new genre of music for the world to hear.

Eyes of the Mind is the fifth album by Casiopea, released in 1981. The album was recorded in Los Angeles. Casiopea, also known today as Casiopea 3rd, is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976 by guitarist Issei Noro, bassist Tetsuo Sakurai and keyboardist Hidehiko Koike. In 1977, keyboardist Minoru Mukaiya and drummer Takashi Sasaki joined the group, leaving Hidehiko out of the band. The group debuted with the self-titled album Casiopea in 1979, featuring Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker and David Sanborn as guest musicians. In 1980, Sasaki was replaced by Akira Jimbo. Casiopea has released over 45 albums to date in Japan, and some of them overseas. Some of Casiopea's most famous tracks include "Asayake", "Galactic Funk" and "Eyes of the Mind".

Loopmasters present Deep Analogue Tech a sculpted sound bank of rich analogue synthesis and powerful raw beats dedicated to Tech House producers looking for the inspiration for their next underground production.

Conceived, written and illustrated by fantasy artist and writer Patrick Woodroffe, The Pentateuch was his first fully-fledged art-book combined with Dave Greenslade's second solo album, released at a time when the punk revolution had revised the outlook of many former Prog musicians!

An incredible collection of hardware synthesizer sounds, expertly programmed, individually sculpted with outboard processors, multisampled and mastered to perfection. Synth Anthology 3 delivers the pure and powerful sounds of 132 hardware synthesizers, gently processed to taste with the best hardware processors on the market.

Pre-dating polyphonic synths by some years, string synthesisers used electronic organ 'divide-down' technology to provide a totally polyphonic sawtooth waveform. This was then typically fed through a simple, two stage envelope shaper offering just attack and release and then onto an analogue 'bucket brigade' chorus unit to produce the 'ensemble' effect. They effectively replaced the noble Mellotron as a portable string section as they were FAR more reliable and, errmmm, more portable!

This album was composed and realized on analog synthesisers VCS3, ARP 2600, ARP sequencer, RMI harmonic synthesizer, Korg PS-3300.
Initially recorded on tapes, the composiitons were digitized, completed on Arturia Origin synthesizer and remixed. Zanov has a unique style, powered by his determination and capacity to create the totality of the sound matter which constitute his musical compositions. Zanov is resurging after his 3 albums (vinyls) "Green ray" (Polydor) in 1977, "Moebius" (Polydor) in 1978 and "In cours of time" (Solaris) in 1982.