EMS Synthi 100 - Users

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The Synthi 100 owned by Jack Dangers can be heard being used extensively on electronica group Meat Beat Manifesto's album R.U.O.K.?. Many photos from that album's CD sleeve are close-up photos of the Synthi 100's control panels and displays. It was claimed that his unit was the only one still in working condition at that time.

A Synthi 100 (formally from Melodia Radio) is on display at the National Music Center in Alberta, Canada. The Music Department of the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, Canada, also possesses a Synthi 100.

In 1970 the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop took delivery of an EMS Synthi 100 modular system. Their composer Malcolm Clarke was one of its most enthusiastic users. One of the more notable scores he produced with the Synthi 100 was the incidental music for the Dr Who serial The Sea Devils.

The Synthi 100 was used by Karlheinz Stockhausen in Sirius.

Billy Corgan, longtime frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins, is also reported to own one.

The University of Osnabrück, Germany, has a possibly unique Synthi 100 variant labelled "Synthi 200".

Eduard Artemiev, Juri Bogdanov and Vladimir Martynov used the Synthi 100 owned by soviet label "Melodia" for their record "Metamorphoses - Electronic interpretations of classic and modern musical works". Also Lithuanian composer Giedrius Kuprevičius for their rock-oratorio "Labour and Bread" (1978) and Estonian composer Sven Grünberg for the soundtrack of "Hukkunud Alpinisti hotell" (The Dead Mountaineer's Hotel) (1979) as mentioned in the title sequence of the movie.

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