The Swedish electronics designer Love Hultén has garnered a cult following for his repackaged, mixed, enhanced and elevated items of audio design, starting from cassette decks to online game consoles.
Aston Martin Lagonda, 1985
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This new undertaking combines the designer’s love of repurposed machines with an icon of 70s design, the Aston Martin Lagonda. This famously wedge-shaped high-performance saloon was in contrast to something on the highway when it debuted in 1976. In addition to Sir William Cities’s uncompromising exterior styling, the inside additionally marked the world’s first digital dashboard, albeit within the type of strong state digital shows and contact delicate controls.
The models match into the centre console and may be operated by the rear passenger
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Commissioned by auto and synth fanatic Dr Stephan Sigrist of the Zurich-based know-how strategists W.I.R.E (Internet for Interdisciplinary Analysis & Experience), this piece of in-car know-how has been custom-made to suit the rear console of a 1985 instance of the Lagonda.
In addition to two synths, the bespoke cupboard consists of an oscilloscope
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Two items of latest synth gear, together with Roland’s ultra-compact Aira T-8 Beat Machine and Aira S-1 Tweak Synth, has been deconstructed and reassembled into two gray steel cupboards, full with etched labels, conventional toggle switches and a bespoke oscilloscope.
Love Hultén has created a brand new cupboard to deal with the Roland T-8 and S-1 devices
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It’s a really DIY type of in-car leisure, one very a lot in line with the early digital music that was modern with the Lagonda itself (Kraftwerk’s seminal Autobahn had come out simply two years earlier than).
Love Hultén x Aston Martin Lagonda
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There are additionally parallels with the coachbuilding excesses of the 70s and 80s, when hefty electronics needed to be fastidiously built-in into the consoles and dashboards of ultra-luxury automobiles.
By taking fashionable synth tech that was itself spun off from 80s originals – the T-8 relies on Roland’s legendary TR-808 drum machine from 1980 and the S-1 was impressed by the 1982 SH-101 synthesizer – Love Hultén has remodeled the Lagonda right into a retro-futurist’s dream conveyance.
Love Hultén x Aston Martin Lagonda
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