funnily enough was just listening yesterday to his forthcoming thing where he was given access to a museum full of synths in Switzerland - and enjoying it, both as a listen and a concept
from the press release:
"'Unconditional Contours' captures Legowelt’s stint at the Swiss Museum for Electronic Music Instruments (SMEM), after he was invited to be the first artist in residence at the institution’s 'Playroom' project. Legowelt visited SMEM in Fribourg, Switzerland, in early 2019 to explore the collection and record music. Possessing an extensive collection of synthesizers himself, he used hand-picked synthesizers from the museum’s archive: the rare Farfisa Synthorchestra, the EVS-1 Evolution, the 'shittiest rompler ever made', amongst many others."
it's retrofuturism yeah but on these terms enjoyable
also, quite a lot of these synths were outmoded really quick, or never taken up on a mass level, so arguably there's all kind of potentials in them that never got tapped cos they didn't have the lifetime of say the harpischord or the saxophone
Laurie Spiegel did a whole album on this concept Obsolete Systems
and you have people today like Benge doing the same approach, a whole album dedicated to a particular antiquated synth