It appears like a spacecraft, feels like the long run and as soon as belonged to digital music’s most elusive architect—Aphex Twin’s private Yamaha GX-1 synthesizer has landed on the public sale block.
An ultra-rare Yamaha GX-1, painstakingly restored and MIDI-enhanced for Aphex Twin himself, is now obtainable for buy by way of a VEMIA public sale. With a beginning value of £99,950 ($127,784 USD) and a provenance as uncommon because the synth itself, the itemizing marks a second within the ongoing mythology surrounding one in every of digital music’s most prolific abilities.
Launched in 1973, the Yamaha GX-1 was towering with three manuals: a foot pedalboard, twin tone programmers and a pair of colossal audio system. Fewer than 100 models are believed to have been produced and even fewer stay intact, not to mention in playable situation.
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Aphex Twin’s ear and technical curiosity made him one of many few able to wrangling the product’s immense potential. The artist acquired the synth within the late ’90s after it handed by way of the fingers of British pop producer Mickie Most, and underneath his possession, the GX-1 underwent a transformative restoration.
The outcome not solely returned the instrument to its authentic glory however outfitted it with MIDI capabilities throughout all three manuals, opening a portal to the inventive controls of the twenty first century. The synth featured prominently in Aphex Twin’s aspect venture The Tuss, notably within the monitor “GX1 Solo.”
The unit’s auction is scheduled to shut on April twelfth, and given the instrument’s shortage, situation and celeb possession, it’s unlikely to go quietly.
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