Rolf´s Infotalk 3: "Thaneco" - Greek Electronic Music Part 1

Content/Timeline:

00:00 Introducing the Artist

01:54 Workload And Creativity

07:08 Music Teacher And Music Producer

08:12 Hardware vs. Software

15:13 Many Different Influences vs. Focussing

18:06 Workflow, Composing, Improvisation

19:26 Business, CD Production, Streaming

Thaneco (Thanasis Oikonomopoulos) was born in Patras, Greece, in November 1975. Composer of electronic music with several different influences from the electronica of the 70s and 80s (berlin school, krautrock, downtempo). 

During 1994-1998 Thaneco studied music composition and piano performance in Moravian College, Pennsylvania (U.S.A) and got the Bachelor of music. 

In 2001 he released his first solo album "Psychic Images" 
In 2003 he released the album "Incubation" with his band "the flow" (psychedelic, progressive rock from Greece).

His later work is influenced by the electronic music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Rudiger Lorenz, Cluster, Pete Namlook, Vangelis, John Carpenter and many other. 

He is using both software and hardware music instruments. Some of his favourite software includes: Ableton Live, Native Instruments Kontakt and Reaktor, U-He plug-ins (Zebra, Diva, Hive), Arturia V Collection, Rob Papen plug-ins, and Spectrasonics Omnisphere.

Some of his favourite synthesizers are: Prophet 5 rev3, Moog Minimoog (vintage), Moog Sub37, Roland JX-3p, Korg Polysix, Behringer Gray Meanie (ARP 2600 clone), ASM Hydrasynth, Korg Modwave, Nord Lead 4 and also a Eurorack Modular Synth.