Prophanity: Free Prophet 5 clone

The Prophanity is a free VST clone of the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5. If you'd prefer to buy something though there is always Native Instruments' Pro-53.

The Avant Garde Project Restores Lost Early 20th Century Electronic Music

The Avant Garde Project is restoring old recordings of early electronic music, most of which are long out of print. Their collection includes compositions by some pretty famous composers ... or at least composers that you've read about in history books, even if you've never heard them. Reading down the list of composers, I see John Cage, Milton Babbitt, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Paul Hindemith and many others.

via This Is Not A Label.

Also here is an interview with Pierre Henry to read.

EMS Synthi A clone: EFM-Synthia 2

If you have heard 'On The Run' by Pink Floyd then you will have heard the EMS Synthi (top pic). Well EFM have made the EFM-Synthia 2 (bottom pic) which is a free VST (PC only) clone.

More Delia Derbyshire...

You can read a heap of information about Delia's releases at Delia Derbyshire - An Audiological Chronology, and there is a link to download Electrosonic too. Also, you can grab The White Noise: An Electric Storm here.

Forester

Forester is free software for OS X and Windows which will help you remix, glitch and basically make interesting music in general.

Korg DS-10

One Tonne Music has some amazing info and pictures from the Korg DS-10, while Create Digital Music has some more info about it and how Nintendo wants to kill the flash loaders that homebrew gamers use, but is also used to pirate official products (like the DS-10).

Old Electronic Music

You may have read recently of how old recordings of Delia Derbyshire have been found, and how one track sounds very much like something that could have come out last week. You can read the article and hear samples here (it's also worth reading the comments in this post for more info). Delia created the Doctor Who theme while working in the BBC Workshop, which was set up by Daphne Oram, and there is an article about her, her work and some samples of her work here.

There are some great videos on Youtube about Delia and of her work, here are some of them:
Delia Derbyshire - Love Without Sound (1969)
Reel-to-Reel Beat Matching Virtuosa

There is also a great series by BBC4 about their Workshop:
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 1)
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 2)
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 3)
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 4)
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 5)
The Alchemists of Sound (Part 6)

And here is the oldest known 'Computer Music', from 1951.