Picture the collection of delicate vibrations through which sound is transported across air as a nascent civilisation of golden-skinned homunculi toiling in barren lands, developing in a super-compressed evolutionary process a theory of the mind and language.

Imagine this tiny civilisation advancing in parallel tracks, material progress manifest in trade, crafts, technology and floating cities of delightful architecture, a refined theory of aesthetics informing powerful epics and feats of poetic wonder, and a mystical drive which keeps them expanding past their natural medium, into the infinity and beyond.

If the stars are our destination, then we must be theirs, for they populate our sensory system with awe-inspiring structures that will thrive long after a supernova of silence has obliterated the system whence they arrived.

Harald Grosskopf is the Deus-ex-Machina behind this beautiful infiltration, the all-knowing watchmaker that set this process in movement. He is their God, I wouldn’t be surprised if he became ours too.

Harald Grosskopf- Synthesist

Harald Grosskopf, drummer of Ash Ra Tempel and Cosmic Jokers released Synthesist 30 years ago. It is now being reissued by the true masters RVNG International, and you can get it here. This is truly transformational music, or as Matt RVNG sort of put it, like starting to watch the Wire  for the first time, if David Simon had been a kosmische wizard.

Here is a sampler video put together by yo yo champion Sid Seed.