Our founder: Dennis Colin
Mr. Colin is the designer of the famous ARP 2600 Synthesizer,
used by the Who. “Other famous 2600 users include Orbital, Underworld, 808 State, Meat Beat Manifesto, Hardfloor, Jean Michel Jarre, BT, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Weather Report, Rebirth, Xpando, Add N To (X), Chemical Brothers, Front Line Assembly, David Holmes, Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman, Pete Townshend, Roger Joseph Manning Jr., Patrick Moraz, Matthew Sweet, the Crystal Method, Stevie Wonder, Vince Clarke, Freddy Fresh, Nine Inch Nails, and Edgar Winter.808 State, Aphex Twin, Tony Banks - "And Then There Were Three", The Beloved - a mark I version, Peter Baumann of Tangerine Dream, Paul Bley, Michael Boddicker, Arthur Brown, Richard Burgess, Chemical Brothers - used on Dig Your Own Hole, Vince Clarke, Mike Cotten with the Tubes, Steve Cunningham, Mickie D, Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto, Elemental on their albums Lux Aeternae and Thee Divine Imagination Steve Hill of Bloodrock, Jean-Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode, Electronic Dream Planet, John Entwistle - of The Who, Brian Gascoigne, Miquette Giraudy with Gong, Roger Glover of Deep Purple ("I bought my ARP 2600 sometime around 1972 or 73 and it can be heard prominently on an album I released in 1974 called The Butterfly Ball. In 1975 we performed The Butterfly Ball at the Albert Hall, London and my ARP 2600 was right there. I just wanted you to know." - Roger Glover), Herbie Hancock, Steve Hillage, John Hollis, Steve Howell, Jackson Five - used on Rock Me and others, Bob James, Jean Michel Jarre - "Zoo Look", Brian Kehew and Roger Manning of The Moog Cookbook, Praga Khan of the Lords of Acid, Joy Division - "Closer", Klaus Shultz, Kool and the Gang - used on Summer MAdness, Metro LA, Steve Levine, John Lennon, Lightwave, Lisa (as a child), Dave Macrea, Tony McPhee, Daniel Miller, Kaus Netzie, Nine Inch Nails - Trent Reznor, Nitzer Ebb, John McEntire of Tortoise, Mike Oldfield, Orbital, Steve Pocaro, Roger Powell, PiL - "Flowers of Romance", Rebirth, Steve Roach, The Royal Opera House - in 1976 for thunderstorms, tub-boat whistles, and red-hot swords being plunged into water, Phil Sawyer - triggered the ARP with his heartbeat for the composition "Titanic" on the 1971 Paul Kantner/Grace Slick album "Sunfighter", The Shamen, Skinny Puppy, Pete Townsend - The Who "Who are You", Ultravox, Ian Underwood for Frank Zappa, Underworld - x2, Vince Welnick with the Tubes, Edgar Winter - "Frankenstein", Stevie Wonder - sometimes with a voice-box, Xpando, Joe Zawinul - usually played two with Weather Report (one for each hand), Zim Zum of Marilyn Manson It was even used at Skywalker Sound to create the vocalizations for R2D2! A little less than 3,000 were made, so if you own one...please take care of it!
He is a frequent contributor to such magazines as “Speaker Builder” now AudioXpress.