{"id":978,"date":"2015-03-30T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=978"},"modified":"2015-04-01T14:36:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T14:36:34","slug":"british-synthesizer-pop-part-one-the-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=978","title":{"rendered":"British Synth\u2014Part One: the roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, and William Carlos to Wendy Carlos, The Silicon Teens, and the Human League, we dig up the crunchy roots of primitive Brit-synth in the first half of a two-part show. Download <a title=\"British Synth 1.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20150330britishsynth1.mp3\">here<\/a> or listen below.<\/p>\n<p>This show owes a debt to the BBC documentary <em>Synth Brittania<\/em> as well as the book <em>Mad World<\/em>, with a special thanks to Doug Hoepker for research assistance and tune-sharing.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-978-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20150330britishsynth1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20150330britishsynth1.mp3\">http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20150330britishsynth1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-979\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res\" width=\"510\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MadWorld_NY_Evite-hi-res.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Anthony Burgess, J.G. Ballard, and William Carlos to Wendy Carlos, The Silicon Teens, and the Human League, we dig up the crunchy roots of primitive Brit-synth in the first half of a two-part show. Download here or listen below. This show owes a debt to the BBC documentary Synth Brittania as well as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,97,525,523,521,519,520,522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depeche-mode","category-devo","category-gary-numan","category-human-league","category-silicon-teens","category-walter-carlos","category-wendy-carlos","category-yaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}