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"Exploring the minimoog might seem like a weird thing for a musician to do in 2012. It's been a generation or more since the on-stage flourishes of Keith Emerson or the 8-track polyphony of 'Switched On Bach', after all. And yes, a great synthesizer is an orchestra-in-a-box. It's a composition machine that lets just one person bring forth a complete, arranged, sweeping musical fantasia. Except... you could say the same thing about a piano, or a guitar, or a violin. Any well-made instrument that resonates with lots & lots of people over time does so because it offers lots & lots of possibilities. And if a musician just wants the most possibilities in the smallest package, why doesn't everyone just use a laptop? I think Tim Tsang plays this particular orchestra in a box because he knows that the ideas people have about what orchestras do have changed. A whole lot of string ensembles & woodwind sections have had their sounds sampled, chopped, flipped upsideown, stretched, and stuffed in behind breakbeats since the first time that Gary Numan or Stevie Wonder used pitch & mod controls to slap fatter bottom ends on their records. And yet, Bob Moog's ladder filter, the simple, elegant circuit construction that allows you to refine each note's overtones without destroying their fat bottom end, created the bass sound that is still being used in a lot of contemporary music, from top 40 hip hop to tiny electronica bands. You'll see immediately- there's a lot of different places that Tim wants music to go. I'd say his VCOs, VCF & VCA are ready to get him to all of them."

-Angela Sawyer, Weirdo Records Owner