Styles\u2019 electronic influences are on full display in the Netflix special: within seconds of striding on stage, he\u2019s twiddling away at the kind of rig you might expect to see at a Floating Points set, not a sold-out arena show from a chart-topping heartthrob.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a decent setup, comprised of a Roland<\/a> SP-404 MKII sampler, Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay unit and a desktop edition of the Sequential Prophet-6 analogue synth, but the most surprising piece of kit in Styles\u2019 personal rig is a modular synth \u2013 not something you expect to see in the hands of the UK\u2019s biggest popstar, it\u2019s fair to say.<\/p>\n Harry Styles. One Night in Manchester | Official Trailer | Netflix – YouTube Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n While Styles is a talented instrumentalist who regularly plays both keys and guitar alongside his backing band, a cynical observer might suspect that Styles\u2019 modular rig is little more than a prop \u2013 after all, it\u2019s probably not easy to focus on tweaking filter cutoffs and ADSR envelopes while you\u2019re fronting a five-piece band and commanding the attention of a 20,000-strong crowd of ecstatic fans.<\/p>\n As far as we can tell, though, Styles\u2019 modular is no stage dressing. When the star arrives on stage to the driving synths of Aperture, the album\u2019s minimal techno-inspired opening track, his first move is to grab the controls on the LYRA8-FX, a delay\/distortion module from Soma Laboratory that\u2019s giving a crunchy lo-fi edge to the sequence coming out of the Prophet-6 he\u2019s tweaking with the other hand.<\/p>\n It\u2019s clear that the popstar is dialling in the distortion we can hear himself, though the Prophet-6 is evidently receiving MIDI from offstage or another member of the band, considering that the synth line is already playing when Styles appears on stage. Though the majority of the set\u2019s electronics are handled by Styles\u2019 bandmates hereon, he intermittently returns to his modular, Prophet and SP-404 throughout the show, when he\u2019s not busy keeping the rapturous crowd thoroughly entertained.<\/p>\n The modular synth played a decisive role in the direction of Styles\u2019 new project, according to producer Tom Hull, better known as Kid Harpoon. Following the success of Styles\u2019 previous album, Harry\u2019s House, Hull dove headfirst down the modular rabbit hole: \u201cYou hit a point in your career where people are investing in stocks, but I don\u2019t know anything about that. I decided to buy a whole modular synth rack instead,\u201d he told the New York Times in a recent interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though he admits he was hesitant to bring the modular rig to his sessions with Styles, Hull says the star showed an immediate interest, and it was this shared obsession that ultimately shaped the synth-centric sound of Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. Though Styles\u2019 excursion into electronica isn\u2019t quite what we had on our 2026 bingo card, we\u2019re certainly here for it \u2013 how long until we can expect to see the former One Direction member behind the decks at Berghain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just hours after dropping his eagerly anticipated fourth album, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Harry Styles made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-331373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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