Nick Klezek - Electronic Music History and Today's Best Modern Proponents!

Many musicians - the modern proponents of electronic music developed a passion for analogue synthesizers in the late 1970s and early 1980s with signature songs like Gary Numan's breakthrough, 'Are Friends Electric?'. It was in this era that these devices became smaller, more accessible, more user-friendly and more affordable for many of us. In this, I will attempt to trace this history in easily digestible chapters and offer the best modern proponents. To my mind, this was the beginning of a new epoch. To create electronic music, it was no longer necessary to have access to a roomful of technology in a studio or live. Hitherto, this was solely the domain of artists the likes of Kraftwerk, whose arsenal of electronic instruments and custom built gadgetry the rest of us could only have dreamed of, even if we could understand the logistics of their functioning. Having said this, at the time I was growing up in the '60s & '70s, Nick Klezek nevertheless had little knowledge of the complexity of work that had set a standard in previous decades to arrive at this point.

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