Been reading an article about Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Dr Stephen Mallinder & since the Cabaret Voltaire split mid ’90s he went to Australia & got involved in a number of projects. Anyway, to cut the chase, along with his huge music history is an extensive record collection to match. He stated that one of the albums that influenced them most was Tonto’s Expanding Head Band – Zero Time, quote - I have to be honest this hasnt dated for me and I still play Timewhys and Cybernaut in DJ sets. I was introduced to it about 1973 by a friend Dave Bower who was a mad glam-meets-hippy guitarist who jammed a few times with the Cabs. I found it so exotic and peculiar but sonically fascinating. TONTO stood for The Original New Timbral Orchestra – which was, I believe, the world’s first polyphonic analogue synth. Malcolm Cecil and Margouleff who were Tonto’s were famous as programmers and producers specifically for Stevie Wonder, who was one of the first people I ever saw play live in 1970, Stevie used them and their technology to make Talking Book and Innervisions so they were ubercool in my eyes
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 03:56:31 +0000
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