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Just watched this on Netflix. Excellent.

I realize you can't fit everything modular-/analog-related into a single 90-minute film, but a few omissions came to mind:

1) The VCS3 ("Putney") by EMS. Ground-breaking little modular synth of the late 60's/early 70's. Used by Pink Floyd (On The Run) and King Crimson. Perhaps most famously, Pete Townsend used it as an external sound processor on "Won't Get folled Again", running a Lowrey organ through the VCS3's LFO/Filters to create the song's signature sound. The VCS3 used a "peg board grid" patching system, kinda like a Battleship game. You could see them in the background when the Skinny Puppy guy & the Throbbing Gristle guy were being interviewed, but the VCS3 was never mentioned by name.

2) The Korg MS-20 & MS-10. Awesome compact Japanese semi-modular analogs of the late 70's.

3) PaiA. These guys have been selling DIY analog synth systems & modules since the 70's. Definitely the forerunner of the whole DIY EuroRack & Modcan phenomena discussed in the film.

Any others?

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Edgar Winter Frankenstein

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