benge - twenty systems - expanding records - cd 
ECDB1: 08 - 48239 - ukcd - €18.90
Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics
1. Moog Modular
2. EMS VCS3
3. ARP 2500
4. ARP 2600
5. Serge Modular
6. Roland SH2000
7. Overheim SEM
8. Moog Polymoog
9. Yamaha CS80
10. Yamaha CS30
11. Roland 100M
12. Korg Lambada
13. Korg Trident
14. Yamaha CS70M
15. PPG Wave
16. Fairlight CMI
17. Oberheim Xpander
18. Yamaha CX5M
19. NED Synclavier
20. Kawai K5M
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20 tracks, showcasing 20 different synthesizers, one from each year, covering the period 1968-1988.
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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.
The booklet includes a foreword by Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner)...
'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).
