I’m doing some research for a future Doug Lynner’s World of Noise Radio Show and I need your help.

What I would like to know is what song/group introduced you to the synthpop genre and any backrgound you would like to share about your introduction.

As an example, for my wife it was Video Killed The Radio Star/The Buggles. She heard it on MTV.

What about you? I’d love to know.

Just leave your information by pressing the “comment” link at the bottom of this post. Be sure to leave your “handle” if you want me to give you a shoutout on the show, and, leave me your email if you want to be informed of the show’s airing.

Thanks!

Doug Lynner’s World of Noise is an Internet radio show on FlashbackAlternatives.com. It’s about what one ’80s new wave/synthpop musician listened to on his way to the great days of ’80s music.

This month’s show features a Musical Masterpiece Mashup made just for the show. It includes piano rolls, synthesizer, piano and sequencers and involves the music of George Gershwin.

Doug Lynner is a founding member of the seminal synthesizer bands Invisible Zoo, Moebius and LEM.

Here are some supporting links for this evening’s show:

Leonid (Lee) Hambro
Lee was the principal pianist for the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein and was also comedian Victor Borge’s sidekick for ten years.
Here is an obituary I wrote for my friend and teacher.
Here is a YouTube video of Hambro and Borge performing.
Here is an interview with Lee about his time with Victor Borge.

Larry Fast – Synergy
Click here to Visit Larry’s website.
Here is an article Larry Fast wrote for Synapse magazine in 1976 about his studio.
Here is an interview with Larry Fast from 1979, also in Synapse Magazine.

Doug Lynner’s World of Noise repeats this Friday at 2am ET and Sunday at 9am ET.

This month’s Doug Lynner’s World of Noise show features sequencers and a musical masterpiece mashup involving piano rolls, piano, synthesizers and sequencers.

To tune in go to FlashbackAlternatives.com and choose your favorite streaming format. If you want to chat with me during the show register for the Tag Board at the same URL.

The show airs at 8pm eastern, 5pm pacific time on 11/13/08. If you miss the show’s first airing, check it out on Friday 2:00am ET and Sunday 9:00am ET.

Show #1 of Doug Lynner’s World of Noise (WON) is airing this evening on Flashback Alternatives so this would be a good time for the first post to the blog. The full playlist of today’s will be published here and at Flashback Alternatives next week. But meanwhile here is some information on the four artists/bands featured in the show.

Vladimir_Ussachevsky
From: OHM: the early gurus of electronic music: 1948-1980 – Elipsis Art… CD3670
Learn more about Vladimir Ussachevsky at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ussachevsky
Note: Synth players out there will be interested to know that Ussachevsky specified the ADSR envelope.
Additional sounds: http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=107

Louis and Bebe Barron
From: OHM: the early gurus of electronic music: 1948-1980 – Elipsis Art… CD3670
Learn more about Louis and Bebe Barron at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486840
Note: Composed first entierly electronic film score

Silver Apples
From: Silver Apples/Silver Apples Kapp Records KS3562 1968
Learn more about Silver Apples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Apples
http://www.silverapples.com/

Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies
From: The American Metaphysical Circus/Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies Columbia Records MS 7317 1969
Learn More about Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Metaphysical_Circus