This is a short, peaceful synth piece performed on a tree. Like, uh. This person got hold of a device that converts current (capacitance?) changes from human touch into MIDI, and then they wired it to a small tree. So the harder they squeeze the tree the higher the note on the Volca Modular goes. Anyway, it's a real nice song.
- "Roland MKS-80 REV5 & MPG-80 (1983)", Werkstatt Matlak
This unusual YouTube account has a number of videos, each featuring exactly one vintage or rare synthesizer and a sparse summary like "Final test after service". The channel's "about" page identifies itself as belonging to a small synth repair shop in Bavaria; apparently whenever they finish repairing a customer device they make a song with it.
This video features the Super Jupiter (a rackmount MIDI Jupiter-8) and its programmer. They use it to make sick retro hip-hop in the style of early Warp.
- "A8 KM34", Funkstörung
"Appetite for Disctruction" was released in the brief initial golden era of IDM and I think got kinda quickly forgotten?, but almost every track on it would have been the best track on some other album. All bizarre dirty bitcrushed beats and catchy clean synthtone melodies, all really satisfying.
This isn't my favorite track on there, but last Wednesday I had a day I just couldn't stop thinking about it. Sometimes you just have an A8 KM34 day.
The "T-8 Aria Compact" is a neat device from Roland that tries to get some of that Volca money Korg's been scooping up by putting in a single tiny box [digital emulations of] an 808 and a 303, Roland's early-80s drum/"bass" synths that failed, flooded the used market and then accidentally invented ACID.
In this video, a dog wearing a tiny hat (judging from their avatar) makes some ACID. A T-8 review, in English and Japanese, is hidden in the YouTube captions.
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- "Devolver", Stardust
This is a 2021 demo for the Spectrum ZX by demoscene group Stardust. I linked a Stardust demo in these posts before (again: not Thomas Bangalter related) and the other one was more visually impressive, but the music in this one is incredibly hype and stands on its own as a piece of relentless, borderline-gabber hardcore dance music. There are acid sounds in here I am sincerely baffled how they tricked a ZX into making.