Episode # 30: 'Elektro Moskva' - a fascinating look at Russia's electronic music and more

'Elektro Moskva' is a fascinating documentary about electronic music in Russia but touches on much more.

POEM's Thomas Janak talked to filmmakers Elena Tikhonova and Dominik Spritzendorfer as well as electronic music pioneer Alexei Borisov about the past, present and future of the music and indeed the country of Russia.

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Episode 29 - The art of synth-making - in conversation with "Error Instrument"'s Paul Tas

With the resurgence of hardware synths still going strong, many musicians and knob-twiddling-enthusiasts alike are interested in more than just your regular Korgs and Moogs. Gladly there is a market for smaller synthesizer makers such as Amsterdam based Error Instruments. 

POEMs Thomas Janak talked to Errormusic's Paul Tas about their creation the 'Fertas 1' , their ideas, influences and future.

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Episode # 28: In conversation with record producer Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones has been working in the music industry for 30 + years and has a fascination with electronic music. He has worked with artists such as Erasure, Depeche Mode, Nick Cave as well as many German 'Krautrock' artists like Irmin Schmidt from CAN. Thomas Janak talked to Gareth about his career, the music industry and more.

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Episode # 27: DEEP FOREST - Connecting cultures through "ethnic electronica"! In conversation with Eric Mouquet

A truly unique musical experience since its inception, DEEP FOREST continue to break new ground and stay fresh.

POEM talked to Deep Forest’s Eric Mouquet about their career, sampling, live performances, song-writing, influences and a lot more. 

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Episode # 26: Bringing the Mellotron into the 21st century

There are very few instruments so iconic that their name rings a bell with musicians across the globe. The MELLOTRON certainly is one such instrument. Made famous by artists such as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Genesis, The Moody Blues, Kraftwerk and The Beatles (to name but a few) it will live on forever on the records of the aforementioned artists. But for one man that just wasn’t good enough! POEM’s Thomas Janak talks to “Mister Mellotron Germany” Klaus Hoffmann – Hoock about the Mellotron and Memotron, the 21^st century version of the legendary instrument.

Quite fitting as this year marks the 50^th anniversary of the Mellotron.

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Episode # 25: Soundtracks and Trailer Music explored

Peter Ebbinghaus, Cedric Garschagen and Stephan Brosch are the team behind “Soundtracks and trailer music” and as such provide a platform to aspiring film score composers- and producers. They highlight artists from around the world and give soundtracks and music composed for trailers the attention they deserve. POEMs Thomas Janak talked to the three gentlemen about their love for film music, how soundtracks and trailer music came about and much more.

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Episode # 24: "Welcome To The Robots" - in conversation with DJ Raphael Krickow

“Welcome To The Robots” concerns itself with the history of electronic dance music in the early 80s. The first edition of the CD series WELCOME TO THE ROBOTS holds a selection of “Electro-Pioneers” on 2 CDS. These Electro-Pioneer productions were not about verses and classical arrangements, but rather instrumental pieces with voices and samples, which were used as sound effects. Putting surreal — and oftentimes melodious— computer sounds together in danceable rhythms was the main focus of the Electro-Pioneers.

The idea and the realization of WELCOME TO THE ROBOTS comes from Raphael Krickow, known for being part of the internationally successful DJ duo “The Disco Boys”. POEM’s Thomas Janak talked to Raphael about all the things mentioned here and more. Due to a technical error (recorder didn’t work first time round) parts of the conversation may sound a bit rushed but we wanted to make sure that all the information you would need and derserve to get you would get!

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