Altered Zones

Born out of a two-month struggle of mastery over a MiniMoog and a Revox reel-to-reel, Harald Grosskopf's recently re-issued, 1980 Synthesist LP took its name from the idea of a salubrious synthesis of man and machine. With its images of ladder-climbing, weightlifting, and wrestling, this video for album cut "Emphasis" reads like a low-budget, blue-screened advertisement for the Western capitalist virtues of self-empowerment, and self-actualization. No FourSquare checkins or iClouds in sight, but we do meet a tinfoil-colored, cyborgian überfrau at the end, and she looks an awful lot like the Synthesist that appears on the cover of the original LP (Harald). --Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones

Grab Synthesist LP re-issue + Re-Synthesist CD from RVNG Intl. Video by Headroom Films. Recently, Altered Zones got together with NYC electronic duo Blondes to interview Harald Grosskopf. Read our conversation here

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MP3: Harald Grosskopf: "Synthesist"