Podcast: Sonic TALK 447 - Tomita and 60 years of Top Fives

Guests

Rich Hilton - Chic and Nile Rodgers' Studio Guy
Mark Tinley - creative thinker and shop owner
Ty Unwin - film and tv composer

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After hellos and catchups, we talk Koka's electro mechanical beat machine 2 (10:35), then after the sad loss of Isao Tomita, we talk about his enormous influence and innovation in electronic music (17:00),  Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's performance at Superbooth spawns a discussion on the challenges of modular music construction (34:10), then the Polygraph How Music Taste Evolved infographic (52:40).

• Koka's Beat Machine 2
• Isao Tomita RIP
• Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
• PolyGraph Music Taste Infographic
• Billboard Top 100 Albums

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