The Archive

Back when the internet was so new that we hadn’t even ever used a browser, we did have emailadresses thanks to a local BBS (look it up) which provided that service. We found an ambient music mailing list, I believe through a magazine of some sort, through which we got in contact with a guy in England called Gavin Norman, using the artist name Synaptic Flow. We posted each other diskettes with modules – transferring files via the internet wasn’t really that easy back then – and even tapes.

The first disk I received I brought home in the pocket of my jacket. As I arrived home, I realized that I had had candy in there recently, and sugar had found its way into the disk. Most of it read correctly in the computer, except for this one sample. We later got a proper version of that track sent to us, but of course we used the damaged version for our remix.

Synaptic Flow – Menthea (Creme De Menthea)

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Later we got a tape from him, as he had been in a studio to properly record his tunes. It had some fantastic tunes on it, unfortunately it was a 592th generation tape with a lot of hiss. This is one of those tunes recorded from that tape, run through some noise reduction.

Synaptic Flow – Unknown

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Shortly after this, we never heard from him again. Gavin, where did you go?