People around me wonder why I'm still addicted to electronic music (EM) since almost 40 years! It's true that sometimes my ears are attracted by old musical loves from the time of Led Zep, Deep Purple, Yes and Pink Floyd. Sometimes I'm also interested in neo-progressive music. I even find some great albums there. But often there is a new album that comes out in the field of EM that totally captivates me and explains this real love for this musical genre. Like here with this l

Me who was expecting everything from this excellent electronic music (EM) label, I was not expecting an album of a such level at all! ECOS FRENTE AL ESPEJO (Echoes in front of the mirror) blows hot and cold in a presentation divided in 2 times. This new album that Francisco Nicosia has just realized with Mariano Llere, musician-singer-composer and Argentinian producer, proposes a first part that will please the melancholic insomniacs, while the second part of this new album t

The VariSpeed tape echo by GSi is an authentic software recreation of the WEM Copicat IC-400 Belt Drive VariSpeed model, the first tape echo machine made by WEM with a DC capstan motor capable of changing speed, thus varying the delay time. GSi VariSpeed replicates the hardware instrument “as is” with all its pros and cons, without any additional features. This can be considered as the second chapter of a tribute to the genius of Mr. Charlie Watkins that GSi began back in 200

Ten years ago, involved in running an electronic music jam night in Melbourne on behalf of Australian electronic music collective Clan Analogue, I noticed people turning up with the new pocket-sized Korg Monotron synth, along with the usual laptops and workstations. Fast forward a few years, and it seemed like small, cheap, and portable gear was the in thing for cutting-edge musos. I gigged regularly throughout the 90s with a large collection of hardware synthesizers and rack

Wow, I am excited! I am writing an article for a magazine that is interviewing Steve Joliffe of Tangerine Dream! The unlikely story of a young man growing up in East Tennessee listening to bluegrass and country music becoming an electronic music fan and even learning to play a version of the genre seems unlikely, but it starts with the influence of Tangerine Dream way back in the early eighties. (Yes, I’m that old!) My cousin Jeremy was the one who inspired/corrupted my music