As Create Digital Music reports, Tristram Cary died this week. Here's the first third of the wonderful Australian documentary What The Future Sounded Like, which does more than I ever could to explain why Tristram was important. For me, aside from all the pioneering and inventing and explaining and pipe-smoking and knob-twiddling and making the modern world a little bit more interesting, he'll always be best remembered as the recipient of the world's greatest ever synth-shaped birthday cake. MUSIC THING SHOP Waldorf Blofeld £349 / $699 Korg Kaoscillator £99 / $199 Moog Little Phatty £875 / $1249 Pod X3 £243 / $399
