Imagine being holed up, alone in your friend's house in the West German country side....it's 1979....you are heartbroken after a recent break up with a girlfriend....your friend happens to have a home studio with a Revox reel-to-reel 8-track recorder and a primitive, temperamental Minimoog.....its Summer and you have a lot of time on your hands....inventing new, strange sounds. When Harald Grosskopf emerged from his heartbroken solitude he had inadvertently produced one of the first examples of synth-pop. Harald Grosskopf's album 'Synthesist,' originally released on Sky Records in 1980, RVNG Intl. celebrates the 30th year anniversary with this a mastered and packaged reissue. www.igetrvng.com