Yes I am an Analogue Synthesizer Obsessive...

When I was kid in shorts, around the late '70's, I wanted to be a drummer. I was pretty decent at it too. Then I heard a track called Trans Europe Express by the Teutonic electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk. That was the end of that...

I was absolutely fascinated by Kraftwerk and wanted to find out more about how they got those incredible noises which sounded like nothing I'd ever heard before. Along with the fact that they very rarely talked about their recording techniques, I grew up in a small mining village on the Welsh border so getting that kind of information was impossible.

My Dad finally gave in to my mithering and bought me a little mini Casio keyboard. The drums sounded like sand paper being rubbed together but I didn't care because I thought it was truly amazing. I loved over-driving speakers with it and making a frightful noise really.After this I started messing about with tape recorders and playing them together so that they would flange and phase. I was banished to the garden shed by my parents!

My interest in electronic music never went away. I picked up various old Moog, Roland, and ARP synthesizers from the bargain boxes of music shops around the UK and amassed quite a collection. With the advent of digital synthesizers in the mid '80s, most music shops were giving them away.

I graduated from music college in 1994 and started working as a recording engineer in a residential recording studio in North Wales. I found the experience to be somewhat frustrating because, since it was the mid '90's, most of the artist that came to record were all britpop type acts. Nothing wrong with that of course, and I met some really cool people. I particularly enjoyed working with the BBC and Granada television and I'm very grateful for that. My heart wasn't in it so I walked.

Anyway, since then, I have collected many fine examples of vintage analogue synthesizer technology from around the world. Most of those music shop give-aways are now worth a serious amount of coin because they are so rare and sought-after.

I run a small marketing company now, but in my spare time I like to knock out the odd electro-tune. I record under the name The Quadraphonic All Stars and have an album on iTunes and an EP on Bandcamp.

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