The danish TMA-1 looks like a stunning companion to a iPhone, OP-1 or any nice synth.

Great shoots from the apartment. Great sounding cp70.

Start the week with some great synth disco music from the soundtrack “Midnight Express”. I just love the melodys and synth sounds of Giorgio Moroder and this soundtrack has lot of that.

http://open.spotify.com/album/2CEoXjE0mCoMxzQpNkJRMF

To get you into the feeling of the time look at this great clip with Giorgio from a lost studio era. In those days it took three persons to play a synth.

UPDATE — Today is Giorgio Moroders birthday!

This is just great fun. Hours of turning knobs and distorting drummachines. Just like when you are in the studio but this is online. Audiotool has updated their great app to 1.0. And that gives us lots of new stuff to play with. I just love the graphics on the mixers, pedals and synth.

Some info from the Audiotool team:

“We are proud to release Audiotool 1.0 Firestarter, a music making online platform.

Two years ago we started with a simple idea: Everyone should be able to make music online through their browser without the need to install any additional software. This proof of concept was a great success and since then we have continually updated Audiotool with new features, as well as, pocketing a Red-Dot Award and a German Design Award.

However we have never considered any of the updates worthy of the being the 1.0 release, until now.

You just have to try this, check it out at http://www.audiotool.com/.

I found these great series of interviews with electronics musicians by Motherboard Electric Independence. They interview Moby talking about his drum machine collection, Holy Ghost turning knobs on their modular and JD Samson shows of some of here plastic guitars. I love drum machines.

Holy Ghost
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw0RYNndhwo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwstQ8kjnU

JD Samson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXqjy5VU9Fw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2gytis2mV8

Moby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u9i3FFVA74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlEZ1jaGDo

And if you can, check out the BBC documentary Synth Britannia for the classics.

Here is some sketches for a record by Rellmark. I am searching inspiration in the golden age of super heros, computer games and when the lush synth pads from the DX7 was the king of sounds.

This is the final version of the front panel for the WSG. Hopefully I will get some picture of it next week.