A history of the synthesiser in pop music with Martyn Ware
3/31/20261 hr 35 min
Martyn Ware is a founding member of The Human League and Heaven 17. He and other acts from Sheffield pioneered British electronic music in the 70s
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Covet your husband's rucksack, you bareback gubnits. Welcome to the Blindboy Podcast. If this is your first episode, consider going back to an earlier podcast. But if you're a regular listener, if you're a ten-foot Declan or a steaming quaver, you know the craic. I've a very special episode this week. This week's episode is a bit of a-- I suppose it's a part two to last week's episode. Well, technically, no, it's a part three. Last week's episode was about my love of analog synthesizers, and I went into the history of analog synthesizers. But then the podcast before that was about artificial intelligence and how artificial intelligence could never replace real human analog artists. So this is a bit of a part three. So I got a massive surprise last week. So, as you know, I've gotten my hands on some analog synthesizers. If you've been following me on Instagram, @blindboyboatclub, you'll know that I've been using my spare time to, to make a few tracks with my analog synthesizers and upload them, and I've been loving it. It's been healing my neurodivergent burnout. I'm consistently in and out of neurodivergent burnout. It's something that-- So someone who's, who's neurodivergent, ADHD,