After the electric guitar, no new instrument upended 20th-century popular music like the synthesizer. At first, the synth’s sounds were used to create ambient, otherworldly soundtracks or for epic ...

Basically, Discipline — as well as successors Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair — constitute the band’s synth-era, as they went on another hiatus after Three of a Perfect Pair and returned over a ...

If you’re starting to get into electronic music or need a bit of inspiration for your own music, these four synth-pop records are a few of the most memorable in the genre. And they’re still fun to ...

'80s Week: After Hollywood’s years of experimenting with electronic music, a new invention changed the sound of cinema. When Alfred Hitchcock fired the composer behind “Vertigo” and “Psycho” over ...

The early models of the synthesizer were not given a warm welcome. In the 1950s, technological developments improved the quality and usability of synthesizers. But the instrument was frequently met ...

He’s made irresistible hits with Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. But going alone for the first time at 63, his inspirations were more sober, and more personal. By Rob Tannenbaum “Do you want to see ...

Parker’s brainchild, the Orchid ORC-300, is a compact synthesizer with a single octave of keys that can fit in a backpack and ...

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