The producers of
electronic-krautrock known as Fobo have released their latest
official album, “#1 On Analogue Waves.” Half of Fobo is
house-music legend, Jo Bogaert of Technotronic (“Pump Up the Jam,”
“Get Up,” “Body to Body”). The other half is synthwave
producer titan Yannic Fonderie (Milow, Axelle Red, Calogéro). “#1
On Analogue Waves” contains 11 original Fobo tracks for an approx.
listening time of one hour. It has been proudly published as an
independent release without the involvement of the corporate music
industry on the Zon Records music label. A starting project expertly
composed using only two analog synthesizers, “#1 On Analogue Waves”
introduces Fobo as the most legitimate synthwave project in recent
memory.
Zon Records notes that
Fobo's “#1 On Analogue Waves” was recorded using only two
analogue Minimoog synthesisers and an analogue-to-midi step sequencer
(see below for technical notes).
“Our basic idea,”
writes Bogaert, “was to reduce options drastically by limiting the
sound sources to two monophonic synths and see how far this could
lead us. We also chose to work with an analogue type of sequencer to
kind of re-translate the nineties to the late sixties and seventies
when the use of synthesisers was new and adventurous and led to a new
kind of music.”
This anachronistic method
results in a startlingly minimalist, clean sound which offers up its
emotionally evocative, often highly narrative musical composition in
a way any music fan can appreciate. Fobo go on to say this minimalism
came out of a desire to unpack the layers of technology thirty years
of unbounded scientific progress have slathered onto music.
“I guess it was a
reaction to the overdose we both had by being surrounded, daily, by
all kinds of synths and samplers and computers,” they write. “There
is nothing wrong with those, but I must say that stepping back in
time was great fun!”
Fobo note, also, the
massive popularity of the sound they've helped pioneer over the
course of their careers.
“We never could
have imagined,” they write, “in 1993 when digital was the norm,
that analogue synths and sequencers would have a complete revival and
become so prominent in today’s technology-driven music scene.”
Belgium's
Zon Records describes itself as “an electronic-music record label
not restricted to subgenres. We are located in Brussels /Belgium. We
do ambient, dance, electro, electronic krautrock, techno,
lounge, new wave, electronic, progressive and more.”
“#1 On Analogue
Waves” by Fobo on the Zon Records label is available from quality
digital music stores online worldwide now. Get in early, krautrock
fans.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
“#1 On
Analogue Waves” by Fobo –
Official Website –
Producer's Notes –
The
two analogue Minimoog synthesisers and analogue-to-midi step
sequencer used for “#1 On Analogue Waves” provided 16 linear
steps of control voltages/triggers on each of the 3 rows. These
Minimoogs were multitracked to an Otari digital multitrack recorder
and recorded and mixed on a Euphonix CsII console. The only other
additions were a TR-909 hihat on one track and an Oberheim OB-8 drone
on another.
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