Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist / Re-Synthesist - Rvng Intl. - ReRVNG01 / ReRVNG01.5

**Super-limited pressing comes in a beautiful metallic print, reverse-bound sleeve including a 60 minute bonus CD of remixes by James Ferraro, Oneohtrix Point Never, Stellar Om Source, ARP +++ ** Finally touching down in deluxe, reverse-bound jacket, the RVNG reissue of Harald Grosskopf's influential solo debut from 1980. 'Synthesist' was created on the cusp of a new decade, as the New Age of the '80s was dawning and the titans of Krautrock had largely left their best work behind them. Harald had worked with the very best of them, playing drums on seminal albums by Klaus Schulze, the notorious Cosmic Jokers, Ashra, and Tarot before he retreated to the West German countryside with a MiniMoog and Revox Reel-to-Reel in 1979 to create his personal opus. It's been said elsewhere, but it bears repeating that this album feels like a symbiosis of the two eras, the proggy excesses of the '70s reigned in by percussively pulsing arpeggiations which would signal Techno on the horizon, especially on the jaw-dropping '1847 Earth' and the joyfully funky ecstasy of 'Transcendental Overdrive'. His legacy is faithfully handled on the remixes, the best of which appear in CFCF's dreamy remake of 'B. Aldrian', JD Twitch's emphatically NRGetic mix of 'Emphasis', the wormhole experience of OPN's 'Trauma' and Ferraro's slyly charming interpretation of 'Transcendental Overdrive Zone' under the Keyhole Voyeur alias, retitled 'Wishmaster'. Strictly limited copies - don't sleep!