Synthesizer “Patch”

A fantastic, pop-minimalist use of a classic E-Mu synthesizer. The footage has received a treatment that might make you think it’s from the early days of synthesizers (the elbow patches don’t hurt — I imagine they’re also a “patch” joke, as in “synthesizer patches”), but this is a contemporary recording. That is Benge, aka Benjamin David Edwards, a specialist in vintage/retro synths, performing. He manages to summon up a lovely little melody that plays out in very simple tones, lovely little sounds that bring to mind some of Aphex Twin’s more subtle work. (I am likely mistaken, but I think that equipment is original, and not the mos-lab.com replica.)