Ian Boddy

The first kosmische flights of fancy from one of Britain's most prolific electronic musicians, brought to vinyl for the first time. Ian Boddy has been active since the late 1970s with contributions to labels like Flowmotion, Mirage, Signal Records, Colin Potter's ICR, Third Mind, and his own DiN imprint (founded 1999) - collaborating over the decades with luminaries such as Robert Rich, Chris Carter, Erik Wøllo, Markus Reuter, and Mark Shreeve (as ARC). His creative output draws deeply from 1970s German krautrock/electronica, especially Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. In the late 70s and early 80s, Boddy began experimenting at Spectro Arts Workshop, an Arts Council-funded studio in his home city of Newcastle, where he accessed vintage equipment - VCS3, EMS synthesizers, AKS sequencers - to compose and record his earliest works.

This formative period produced three cassette releases on the Mirage label showcasing Boddy's explorations of analogue synthesis and tape manipulation: Images (1979/80), Elements of Chance (1981), and Options (1982). The equipment list reads like a museum inventory: Moog Opus-3, Roland SH-09 and SH-02, Korg Lambda, Jen String Synth, Boss Dr. Rhythm, Fender Rhodes, EMS 8-Octave Filter Bank, Teac 4-track recorders, Revox tape machines. Essential archival documents of one synthesist's journey into the kosmische void. 500 numbered copies with certificate.