Harald Grosskopf - a drummer who lived in Berlin and had appeared on recordings by Klaus Schulze, Ash Ra Tempel, Cosmic Jokers, and others - recorded his debut solo album in the summer of 1979. Ushering in the 80's, 'Synthesist' shed new-age tags with it's proto-techno drive; but kept a theatrical cool, shrouded in dystopian, sci-fi imagery...