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Keith Emerson was great but nobody mentioned Stevie Wonder. He won 3 Grammys with synthesizers. What a biased pile of rubbish

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Racist? I certainly agree that they should have at least mentioned Stevie Wonder. But this film either failed to mention, trivialized, or downright denegrated ALL of the 60's/70's artists who were applying modular synths to rock/pop/soul genres (i.e.: not "serious" music). That includes Rick Wakeman and Edgar Winter, who are both about as white as it gets (literally😃).

And the take on Keith Emerson was none-too-favorable. He was depicted as some sort of ham-fisted Philistine who primarily used his ARP modular as a sensationalistic stage prop.

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Really?? You're gonna troll for attention with that? Ok. (sigh). Well yeah Stevie is definitely responsible for bringing the synth to soul and r&b music but they tried to focus on artists whose names, bands and music are still synonymous with synths. I'm sure it wasn't a conscious omission. Besides Stevie hasn't been thought of as a symbol of the synthesizer in decades (and definitely not "modular synthesizers", which is the true topic of the film).

And by the same token, you could argue that the documentary left out Kitaro and Tomita who are popular Asian equivalents of Yanni and Wendy Carlos. But the film served it's purpose.

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Exactly. In the synth world, Isao Tomita is way more important than Stevie Wonder.

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If you said Derrick May I could've agreed. But they also left out many other influential names.
Congrats on being another Kanye, that's what the world needed...

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