In the late 70s to part of the 80s, Roland (synthesizer manufacturer) had annual synthesizer music contests where people around the world could submit songs they recorded with their synthesizers, and Roland would choose & award winners. Roland would then sell tapes of the winners' songs. My dad bought the 8th synthesizer contest tape (1984), and he eventually gave the tape to me.

When I was much younger (a child), I was careless and lost the cassette sleeve, so I lost the information about the winners' names and the names of the songs (and I didn't particularly treat the cassette very well either, for whatever reason). Several years ago, I bought a USB cassette player and recorded the songs digitally on my computer (I've saved them to FLAC format, and have also converted them to MP3). I put it on YouTube, stating that I'm missing the original information. I've since found many of the song names, thanks in part to a kind user who commented with a tip just last week, though there are still a couple I don't know, and a couple I'm unsure of.

This is the YouTube link to the 8th Syntherizer Contest: https://youtu.be/1sgibLoz9cA?si=eIpGfzgrOZU4EAkw

A few years ago, I happened to find th 6th and 7th for sale on eBay (while also looking for another copy of the 8th). I also digitally recorded these:
https://youtu.be/1Bn6I801BhE?si=kIH0YXVH3RFqNc-S https://youtu.be/Gi5JH1ZfZYA?si=KLV42vx03qjwZjk9

I've also uploaded the FLAC recordings to the Internet Archive (though I should update the track names of the 8th, since I now know more).

These recordings are very niche, and some of the tracks are IMO not 'great' music, but I think they're still interesting to listen to. Information about these has been fairly hard to find.

Nightfox

This is the YouTube link to the 8th Syntherizer Contest: https://youtu.be/1sgibLoz9cA?si=eIpGfzgrOZU4EAkw

Very cool to hear these tapes, I hadn't heard of them before. I am listening to your recording of the 8th annual contest and so far really enjoying the music, this is some really great stuff! Thank you for sharing.


Chris/akacastor

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On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:03:43 -0800
"Nightfox" (21:1/137) <Nightfox@f137.n1.z21.fidonet> wrote:

In the late 70s to part of the 80s, Roland (synthesizer manufacturer)
had annual synthesizer music contests where people around the world
could submit songs they recorded with their synthesizers, and Roland
would choose & award winners. Roland would then sell tapes of the
winners' songs. My dad bought the 8th synthesizer contest tape
(1984), and he eventually gave the tape to me.

When I was much younger (a child), I was careless and lost the
cassette sleeve, so I lost the information about the winners' names
and the names of the songs (and I didn't particularly treat the
cassette very well either, for whatever reason). Several years ago,
I bought a USB cassette player and recorded the songs digitally on my computer (I've saved them to FLAC format, and have also converted
them to MP3). I put it on YouTube, stating that I'm missing the
original information. I've since found many of the song names,
thanks in part to a kind user who commented with a tip just last
week, though there are still a couple I don't know, and a couple I'm
unsure of.

Did you see this?

https://archive.org/download/Roland8thAnnualSynthesizerContest_MissingInfo


or this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgibLoz9cA
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Re: Re: Old Roland synthesizer contest winner tapes
By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Sat Feb 24 2024 05:51 am

Did you see this?

https://archive.org/download/Roland8thAnnualSynthesizerContest_MissingInfo

I think that's my upload to archive.org (though I don't remember adding the .ogg files or .png files - I wonder if those were added later).

or this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgibLoz9cA

Yes, that's my YouTube video, which I shared in my original post about this..?

Nightfox

On Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:03:32 -0800
"Nightfox" (21:1/137) <Nightfox@f137.n1.z21.fidonet> wrote:

Re: Re: Old Roland synthesizer contest winner tapes
By: Nigel Reed to Nightfox on Sat Feb 24 2024 05:51 am

Did you see this?

https://archive.org/download/Roland8thAnnualSynthesizerContest_MissingInfo

I think that's my upload to archive.org (though I don't remember
adding the .ogg files or .png files - I wonder if those were added
later).

or this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sgibLoz9cA

Yes, that's my YouTube video, which I shared in my original post
about this..?

Nightfox
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Oh sorry. :)
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