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Synth Britannia
2009 · Film · documentary · 88 min
Directed by Benjamin Whalley
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
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I think it's in the documentary Synth Britannia [1] were Kraftwerk explain themselves as; musician engineers.
As I get older I start to appreciate the early synth groups a lot more. Spend many hours listen to Kraftwerk over the decades.
RIP Florian.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVljmH0yUw
There's a great BBC documentary on the synthesizer and it's role in the rise of electronic music (in Britain particularly) in the 70s/80s called Synth Britannia, worth a watch if you like this sort of thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK1P93r9xes
Also on Netflix is a documentary film called I Dream of Wires about modular synthesizers, which I'm yet to get round to watching but is supposed to be very good.
Really must have a play on my synthesizers again, they've been gathering dust while I've been focussing on other things but a good synth really is a joy to play with.