Comments on: Synthsploitation

By: Adriane Lake

Adriane Lake — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:11:01 +0000

O.M.F.G.

I totally remember this phase. It’s like girls sitting on cars, only synths. (Being a girl of course, I found this especially amusing.)

Aaah the memories.

By: N_Phay

N_Phay — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:45:50 +0000

I think that issue with the Korg Electribes was the last one I ever bought. 10 years ago, amazing.

Like Kent, I bought it regularly, before the internet got really big, back when I’d buy any copy of any music tech magazine ever. I can’t remember the last time I even looked at a copy. The only positive thing I can think of abt the magazine is that many many years ago, it introduced me to an act called Eleven Shadows, who are (were?) awesome.

While I completely agree with you about the covers being tacky & sexist (plenty of music tech ads over the years in many zineshave been just as bad as well) I’ll hang my head in shame a little and admit that I do kinda like the MC307 girl.

By: kent

kent — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:07:08 +0000

Future Music is the Daily Mail of music tech mags. It was and is a fucking rag, pitched entirely at clueless wannabes. I used to buy it back before the Internet was the center of synth-related content it is now, and stopped when I realized that those cover CDs were always shit — crap sample sets, lame tracks, crippled software.

Putting girls on the cover was probably the least stupid thing they did, and I say that while fully agreeing with you.

The last straw for me was when the editor panned Carl Craig’s Landcruising. That’s when I knew for sure they were a bunch of idiots.

By: digital lofi

digital lofi — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:38:45 +0000

In a recent FM that was some 100th issue special or the like, the editors seemed pretty embarrassed by this run of covers. They are laughably stupid.