The Synth & Electronic Recording Exchanges
The Synth And Electronic Recording Exchanges is an album released in 2019 by Martin Hannett which claims to be the fruit of a series of tapes exchanged between him and Delia.
Some of the tapes that Delia and Martin Hannett exchanged in the 1970 were released as an album, which is
supposedly a back and forth, one track from Delia then one by Martin, but the sequencing feels arbitrary and a bit of a mess, skipping from Hannett’s baroque twills to dark blasts of sci-fi analog electronics and back, over and again.[1]
In fact, it consists almost entirely of tracks from Electrosonic and ripped from Wendy Carlos' albums though tracks 7 and 16 may be something new.
Availability
The Hannett's tracks are mostly Wendy Carlos-like versions of traditional themes
Track list
From Boomkat's "Tracks for The Synth And Electronic Recording Exchanges":
- 1. Hannett: Electronic version of Happy Birthday To You
- 2. Delia: Electrobuild
- 3. Hannett: Electronic version of a piece by Bach
- 4. Delia: Shock Chords
- 5. Hannett: Another by Bach
- 6. Delia. The Wizard's Laboratory
- 7. Filtered noise wash
- 8. Random notes and themes
- 9. Delia: Quest
- 10. Hannett: More Bach
- 11. Delia: Quest - fast
- 12. Hannett: Electronic version of Scott Jolpin's The Entertainer
- 13. Delia: Electrostings
- 14. Hannett: Electronic version of ???
- 15. Delia: Effervescence
- 16. Another filtered noise wash with melody and electronic gull cries
- 17. Delia: Computermatic
- 18. Hannett: More Bach
- 19. Delia: Frontier of Knowledge
- 20. Hannett: Electronic version of Carmen
- 21. Delia's The Pattern Emerges, missing the first few notes
Availability
The tracks can be heard or bought