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i think the grain of the recording has a lot to do with how familiar we all feel with these recordings, im not talkign about the buzz or hum and artifacts, but there's a beatiful way in which the "recorded to tape" is not just heard, but Felt too... does that make sense?

1:34 this is so master system tune

In Soviet Russia, chip tunes you!!

I had the extremely good fortune while Visiting Erv Wilson in the late 1970s, to sit at the side of George's custom Scalatron, while he played it for me. He started with a demo of his then-new 17+2 unequal temperament. The music was fascinating and as I followed his various ingenious modulations, my head moved around in space to follow them. Then suddenly, he pressed one of the tuning buttons and began playing a different kind of music in a different tuning. Immediately, without intending to do so, I sat up straight with perfect posture. My breathing became deep and effortless. My vision and mind became crystal clear. I felt fantastic! I said "George, what did you do?" He smiled and said "Oh, that's Helmholtzian Just" and then he switched to yet another tuning and musical idiom. I involuntarily slumped in the chair, My breathing became constricted, my eyes crossed and I had trouble thinking clearly. With effort, I said "George, push the other button!" He went back to Helmholtz and I got instant relief. This was my initiation into what Ivor Darreg called the "moods" of different tunings.

The oldest psytrance I know of is Johannes Sebastian Bach.

𝕄𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕒 𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕒 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕙𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕒

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Really ahead of it's time

Sounds like music of a gameboy

05:25 the sounds of hell

A certified hood classic

Incredible

Chiptune, first generation

For more in a similar vein, look up the Novachord by Hammond in the late ‘30’s.

05:25 Who's decided to climb down to the underworld to record ghosts ?!

This was designed for Richard D. James

Wow!

Excelente documental .....!!!!!

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They had the sound. Chip music in 1932. 37 years before the chip.

A very early; very interesting synthesizer !

0:40 That is fire!

Weird to think of all the horrendous things that were going on in the Soviet Union at this time. Hundreds of thousands in Gulag, mass executions, paranoia, show trials.... and some people messing around producing things like this.

Very interesting. Thank-you! And all of this was a generation before the heyday of Vyacheslav Mescheryn. I wish that we could see this schematic in higher definition. 360p doesn't allow us to read any of the text, or to see clearly what some of the parts are. The audio would also be more clear with the higher bandwidth of even 480p, and 720p.

idk but this sounds creepy for some reason, maybe because of the noise lol

If you look at the drawing, there are a few ingenious things that stand out! Like a vibrato controller I noticed recently! Upper left corner. The two cones is a variable speed control, controlled by dial 34, setting the speed of the vibrato, whereas dial 35 sets the depth of the vibrato, and according to the cones and mechanism, repeatedly changes the tension of the drive belt! A similar system is also applied in the lower left corner, to repeatedly change the intensity/volume of the note, I believe. Achieved by changing the size of the opening that the light shines through to expose the film. Likewise, the two cones in the middle control the notes. Connected to the ball in the middle is a small dial, pointing at the names of notes, and I believe that by changing what gears that the middle gear to the left of the cones mesh with, you can select the octave. Not sure about that last one.

wow a very early precursor to the 80's-90-2000's nintendo games music.

Wonderful sounds Simon.. luv this track! ....was so happy to find all your [rare] BQ albums have been reissued/remastered on CD, literally 'music to the ears' ...your music is timeless, keep up the good work :)

Voinov didn't work on Variophone, he has created his own unique system named Nivoton after him (NIkolay-VOinov-TONsystem). It existed simultaneously with three other different systems developed by Soviet Russian experimental musicians since late 1920s, including the Variophone

2:00 at 2x speed, if that was sampled, could be a good remix on the right instruments.

I love this version of partchs study for olympus scale :D

Reminds me of Tom Dissivelt and Pac Man, combined. I like the parpy classical track about half way through and the fairground wurlitzer style one the best. Excellent stuff.

Did the gameboy music before it was cool

This recording was not made in 1932

2:00 This part reminds me too much of coffin dance

Let me get this straight, the song was recorded back in the 30s yet it sounds like a NES video game. What kind of sorcery is this?

Found this from motoroller scalatron by stereolab

the old nintendo ?

legends

This is creepy af when listening at 3AM holy shit

love it!!

everybody gangsta till the variophone starts playing this music at 3 am

Couldn't have hurt to throw a little eq/compression on this so it didn't pierce ear drums so hard...

If anyone cares, here is a Soviet cartoon around that era that used this kind of sound too: ruclips.net/video/2mE2Fxb4aHA/видео.html

Broken animatronics be like

What are the crowd so excited about?

Man this shits a bop

U96

Techo

Awesome