The problem of propaganda influence. many do not want to see people behind the passport, replacing personalities with the state and ideology. Russia is very unlucky in this sense, but here it is probably left only to rely on themselves. after all, every synthesizer that we discuss here is a man-made product. and Elektron is not Sweden but only a handful of fanatics, whom we love very much even when we scold them.
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Don’t know this might be of interest to anyone…
Junost 21!
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Fucksake.
I’m in fucking Bedford at the weekend as well…
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Ooops!
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I’m mostly in Bedford to fetch the £400 alloy wheels I’ve just forked out for, so I don’t think there’s any synth budget anyway…
But that is a cracking deal if it works…
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Hey @Fin25 since you dropped that Adam Curtis reference earlier (hypernormalization) did you watch his doc about the fall of communism/rise of capitalism (oligarchy) in the former ussr, Trauma Zone? It’s crazy good imo.
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Yeah, really enjoyed it.
I think the lack of narration/talking heads made it really interesting, almost felt more immersed in it.
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Yes! Exactly! Don’t get me wrong, I always enjoy Adam’s narration but this choice was really great. It’s like slow tv but very consequential slow tv or something
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… waiting for the Alpha Junost …
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Estradin 230 is more or less a Minimoog clone. Doesn’t really sound that much like a Minimoog, but it definitely sounds good to me. From what I know I think they suffer with the pots failing quite a lot, but you don’t buy a Soviet synth for reliability, do you…
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Looks serviceable though. It is sold as a repair object. Low and noisy output and glitchy keys…
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I owned a Polivoks 15-20 years ago was a beast but one of the oscillator’s gave out and I sold it.
Synthex is Italian, not Soviet (or Russian). I got to play a freshly restored one recently and it was sweeeeet. that thing is really awesome. some weird stuff on it, for sure.
as for actual Soviet synths… I owned a Polivoks years ago. I got it from Analogia.pl (synth shop in Poland) who restored it. they did a great job. swapped it over to US power for me, swapped out those weird audio jacks for standard 1/4" ones, etc… it was a really fun and great sounding synth and I never had any issues with it (so they did a good restoration job). keys were the absolute worst synth keys I’ve ever experienced though. total dog shit.
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Oops well to be fair it was late when I copied that link and somehow my brain read “elta” which is a Russian brand but in retrospect, italian cars are also hard to fix too so, maybe there’s a cross cultural lesson to be learned here about the strength of our jaws when we choose what to bite and now I’m craving cheesy garlic bread and borscht.
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I literally only learned that Elka synths are Italian as I was playing the thing, so I don’t blame your mistake!
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