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What the Future Sounded Like - part 1 of 3

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Documentary about the the people of EMS (Electronic Music Studios) a radical group of avant-garde electronic musicians who utilized technology and experimentation to compose a futuristic electronic sound-scape for the New Britain.

Comprising of pioneering electronic musicians Peter Zinovieff and Tristram Cary (famed for his work on the Dr Who series) and genius engineer David Cockerell, EMSs studio was one of the most advanced computer-music facilities in the world. EMSs great legacy is the VCS3, Britains first synthesizer and rival of the American Moog. The VCS3 changed the sounds of some of the most popular artists of this period including Brian Eno, Hawkwind and Pink Floyd.


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  • Very interesting Documentation. It's great tosee all these visionary Fathers of electronic Music. Some Stuff sounds absolutely timeless.

  • @xBONESstyle

    analog synthesizers, especially older analog synthesizers in many cases, are capable of producing more sounds than your modern day piece of shit keyboard you can buy at guitar center. You can adjust the sound wave, attack, cutoff, resonance, LFO, release, decay, and much more with real synthesizers. The problem is, people are to lazy to take the time and learn how these things work, so they make extremely dumbed-down hardware for todays generation of music.

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  • thank you so much for this upload.... along with all the others

  • thank you for uploading this, thats very interesting !

  • and yet without this weird sounds i wouldnt be listeing to my beloved house and trance.

  • Super!

  • I wonder what would happen if I'd go back in time, and show them Psytrance!(esp Darkpsy)

  • EMS were the coolest stuff arouns.

    So very neglected in the histories.

  • Thanks so so much for posting!!!

    amazing!

    one of the most interesting vids on YouTube!

    merci!

  • I've seen the future and I can't afford a VCS3.

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