The Symboter LP on vinyl! Early works of the early 80’s.
Limited, numbered edition of 500 pieces, completely sold out.
The tapes from 1980-1982 contained songs I had recorded from 1978-1981, many of them live due to lack of multitrack recording equipment or because too complicated, then on 4-track tape devices and finally a few pieces in a 24 track studio, which I did a few nights allowed to use it.
The original master tapes have disappeared over time, there are only a few cassettes from that time. The German label “Vinyl on demand” has amazingly a complete set of “blue” studio cassettes. At the time there was an “orange” series, which contained only live recorded songs, without multi-track technology.
Vinyl on demand has only slightly reworked the cassettes in order not to change the original cassette sound.
I am particularly pleased that my works from that time have now been given a place of honour in this exclusive label.
Boomkat Product Review:
**Hand-numbered edition of 500 copies** Berlin-born, Munich-residing electronic artist and musician Olaf Schirm was inspired by Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Klaus Schulze to make his own music in the late ’70s and early ’80s. V-O-D’s ‘Tape Works 80-82’ collects the best from a trio of his studio productions built on Moog, commercial Japanese synths and his custom-built Symboter Modular System for the Syntape label – ‘Synchroton’ (SYN06), ‘Matrix’ (SYN005) and ‘Phon-Ethik’ (SYN017). Notably, Schirm was a technician for Gershon Kingsley, the author of Moog classic, ‘Popcorn’, and worked its distinctive, bubbling sequences across his own compositions on display here, from the very Kraftwerk-esque hooks of ‘Digimba’ to the lathered melodies of ‘Walking Duck’ and the solemn synth-pop vista of ‘Electronic City’, or best of all, the piquant pirouette of ‘The Transcendence’. RIYL Power Plant!
Tracklist
From “phon-ethik” (1983) | ||
A1 | Nachrichten | 3:39 |
A2 | Digimba | 3:14 |
A3 | Schlangenkonig | 4:01 |
From “Synchrotron” (1982) | ||
A4 | Walking Duck | 4:51 |
A5 | Kraftkern-Stop | 1:25 |
A6 | Silent Storm | 2:56 |
A7 | System | 7:35 |
B1 | Electronic City | 5:46 |
B2 | Blauer Planet Blauer | 6:10 |
From “Matrix” (1982) | ||
B3 | Die Transzendenz | 5:58 |
B4 | Step By Step | 5:01 |
B5 | Elektronenstimme | 4:30 |
Remastered At – GS Mastering & Post
Contributors
- Artwork, Design – Sandro Veil
- Composed By, Photography By – Olaf Schirm
- Remastered By, Technician[Restoration] – Anders Peterson