Blog - SYNTH EVOLUTION

808 Day is the perfect day to confirm that the foreword to my forthcoming book, BEAT GEMS, is to be written by none other than techno legend and Underground Resistance founder, Jeff Mills.

I had a great chat with Ian Dixon of #thedigitallifestyle last week.

I’m super proud to announce my new book, BEAT GEMS, due to be published in October has gone live on Kickstarter!

I had a very enjoyable conversation this week with Ian Dixon of The Digital Lifestyle.

Had a splendid time at Superbooth 2025 - inexplicably my first time, but glad to have made it there now to enjoy the vibes - and the synths.

This is a great video showing the breadth and depth of the SynthEast 2025 show - and includes a brief chat with me & Paulee discussing Synth Evolution and the two new volumes of Synth Evolution I debuted at the show.

I was very proud to launch the two new volumes of the Synth Evolution A6 ‘Zine’ series at this year’s SynthEast 2025 event, organised by Robin Vincent of Molten Media and Electronic Sound magazine!

I need to write more regular blog posts, that’s for sure!

I’m proud to share with you all my first podcast episode for Sound On Sound on the history of the drum machine: https://www.soundonsound.com/sound-advice/drum-machine-history-podcast From the earliest pre-transistor efforts to replicate a drum kit to the…

I was lucky enough to visit the Musée de la musique in Paris recently and of course lapped up the electronic music instrument collection.

My book launch took place on 23rd November, to celebrate the launch of my two new zines - ‘Vintage Synths’ and ‘Drum Machines & Samplers’.

Was delighted to join Ruichi of Love Will Save The Day Radio to chat synth as she spun some splendid electronic music on her Signal show (which is the whole point of synths, innit?)

Review: Matthew Herbert at the Barbican, Sat 14th Oct.

A quick humble brag from me to say that I was on BBC 5Live Drive Time last week, as part of their ‘Synthpop September’ celebrations (Synthtember?).

I wondered if my Synth Evolution project would be under threat if OpenAI & the Dall-E service could generate the beautiful hand-illustrated synth images I make.

Well, of course I had to ask Chat GPT to tell me the history of synthesizers from the early hardware machines to the latest digital instruments to see how good and/or accurate it would be..

A slightly belated round-up of Synth Evolution activities from 2022.

'The results are in!

One lucky entrant will win one of the latest range of t-shirts to be created in Synth Evolution’s latest collaboration with 1of100 T-shirts!

i was contacted recently by Rich Aucoin about his new project to break the world record for the most synths on any record to date - which will be well over 100 and could be approaching 500 if I’ve understood things correctly!