Mark Jenkins - Analog Archives Re-Mastered + Expanded

1. "Where No Shadows Fall" (9.16)
2. "Ohrwurm" (7.03)
3. "Urizen" (14.51) Words - William Blake "The Book Of Urizen"
4. "Sun Down" (3.31)
5. "Heart of Darkness" (3.37)
6. "Electric Eden" (8.20)
7. "Dancing About Architecture" (9.37)
8. "Time's Wingèd Chariot" (12.18) Words - Andrew Marvell "To His Coy Mistress"

1. "Night Of First Ages Pt. 1" (7.34)    

Re-mastered and expanded from its 1995 release, this consistently popular CD presents unreleased archive tracks from 1982-85, an exciting time for synth music featuring pioneering analog instruments like the MiniMoog, Moog Sonic 6 and (kit-built) Transcendent 2000 right alongside early digital and MIDI synths such as the EDP Wasp, Sequential Prophet 600 and Yamaha DX7. The album has a huge range of textures, from looping analog leadlines and sounds to compelling multi-sequences, digital and early beatbox-style fully analog drums, mostly in long tracks of around ten minutes running continuously. Mark's sleeve notes explain the technology of each piece and the use of vocoders, early samplers and the pioneering EDP Spider and Oberheim Mini sequencers. Re-mastered for clearer and louder sound, and with a previously unreleased bonus track "Night Of First Ages Pt. 1" resembling Klaus Schulze's "Wahnfried 1883" and using the exact instrumentation shown on the cover, "Analog Archives" is a must-have for fans of Ashra around "New Age of Earth" and "Blackouts", Michael Hoenig, Cluster and Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream around the period of "Sorcerer", or pioneering US synthesists Michael Stearns and Steve Roach.