Sonic RETROCAST - Vintage Music Technology

Welcome to Sonic RETROCAST Episode 5. Paulee Bow talks to Gavin King aka DJ Aphrodite , the legendary British jungle and Drum & Bass pioneer. In his early work with Urban Shakedown, he & collaborator Micky Finn pioneered the use of two hand synchronised(!) Amiga 500 computers - to create fully realised songs using 8-channels of sound. News Links Reassembler Games, Sonic the Hedgehog: https://reassembler68k.itch.io/aonic AmiGUS mini: https://www.amiga-shop.net/en/Amiga-Hardware/Amiga-classic-hardware/AmiGUS-mini-PCMCIA-sound-card-for-the-Amiga-600-1200::1487.html Commodore 77: https://commodore.net/commodore-jacks-into-night-city-with-the-commodore-77-an-all-new-cyberpunk-2077-collaboration/ IMFM Synth: https...

Welcome Episode 4 of Sonic RETROCAST Episode 3 with host Paulee Alex Bow and legendary guest Robert Henke aka Monolake. He describes himself as “a toolmaking artist. Code and hardware are a source of inspiration and a necessity” Robert is perhaps best known as the co-creator of Ableton Live alongside Gerhard Behles, as well as his musical and audio visual performances as Monolake in which he uses much of his own hardware and software. Robert Henke: https://roberthenke.com News Links Synthesized Cambridge: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/72242/Synthesized-(29th-30th-June-2024)/ PSG Edit...

Welcome Episode 3 of Sonic RETROCAST Episode 3 with host Paulee Alex Bow and guest vintage computing and podcast host Ravi Abbott. Ravi is a prominent British retro computing enthusiast, journalist, event organizer, and podcaster based in Nottingham, England. He is most widely recognized for his extensive work celebrating vintage technology and video game preservation, with a particular specialization in the Commodore Amiga platform.   Thanks to our show sponsor: Liquid Sky  https://liquidskyeurope.com/collections/liquid-sky-d-vices News links: C64CU: https://commodore.net/computer/ Virtual OS Museum: https://virtualosmuseum.org Ec...

Our 2nd episode featuring the legendary Anders Enger Jensen a musician from Norway. He’s been playing keyboards since 1986 and is deep into retro hardware and software. Welcome to the Sonic RETROCAST a companion show to SONIC TALK, focussed on vintage audio hardware, software, workflows and even videogames. With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other retro-enthusiasts, we talk pixels, bleeps and voltages. 00:00:00 Start 00:00:37 Intro and news 00:04:00 Interview with Anders 00:04:57 A look at the studio 00:06:17 What is retro 00:11:53 Selecting sounds 00:15:25 Musical beginnings 00:29:12 Musical Genres 00:36:16 Roland synths 00:51:49 The CM-64 01:04:14 CM-64 sounds

The first episode of a new podcast from us - welcome to the Sonic RETROCAST a companion show to SONIC TALK, focussed on vintage audio hardware, software, workflows and even videogames. With regular contributions from musicians, producers, software developers, journalists and other retro-enthusiasts, we talk pixels, bleeps and voltages. To kick off the show, Paulee Bow ( @magicalsynthadventure3216 ) talks to Nick Batt about what is retro, and first synths 00:00 Retrocast Theme 00:38 An Introduction to Retrocast 01:29 Retro News 05:26 Main Segment - All Our First Synths 06:19 What IS Retro? 11:24 OUR First Synths 32:41 YOUR First Synths 51:12 What’s a...