Money, power and ... synths? - what synthesizers can tell us about geopolitics

If a country can support one or even more synthesizer manufacturers, that tells us a lot about its place in the world. I have some numbers to back this up, look at some of those synthesizer-producing countries and then make some predictions on their future trajectory. Table of contents: 00:00 introduction 00:50 the idea (explained with the UK) 02:43 the synthesizer world map walkthrough (west to east) 03:01 United States of America 04:21 France 04:56 United Kingdom 06:27 Germany 07:50 Italy 09:08 Scandinavia (i.e. Sweden) 10:07 Eastern Europe 11:18 Ukraine 12:18 Russia 13:19 China 15:11 Australia and New Zealand 16:37 Japan 18:40 The DIY scene 19:34 conclusion - where are the countries headed to? 20:32 my personal thoughts 21:29 bye - please subscribe (and if you like this style of video, please tell me in the comments) B-Roll footage from pexels.com HÄLP ZIS CHANNEL https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/flo...   / floyd_steinberg   https://floydsteinberg.gumroad.com/ https://floydsteinberg.bandcamp.com/    / @mr_floydst   Join us on Woody Piano Shack's Discord server:   / discord   Get 7% off on DistroKid with this link http://distrokid.com/vip/floyd PayPal.me https://www.paypal.me/alexselck Shop a Huge Selection of Synths and Drum Machines at PerfectCircuit.com! https://link.perfectcircuit.com/t/v1/... Here's what I have in my setup at the moment. Want to have that, too? Please use the followings links and support me: Yamaha EX5 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=... Yamaha MU2000 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=... Yamaha Montage https://www.sweetwater.com/store/deta... Intech GRID: https://intech.studio/ Retrokits RK-008 https://www.retrokits.com/rk008/ MPC One, Strymon Iridium, Zoom MS 70 CDR, ESI XSynth, Zoom R20, Zoom R4, Meris Mercury X, Alabs Timeslip, Behringer Patchbay and 19" Mixer: https://www.thomann.de/de/thlpg_3wyep... Some bands / artists I've been following for a long time are (among others) Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Pet Shop Boys, Archive, A-Ha, Yes, Porcupine Tree, John Mellencamp, Jean-Michel Jarre, Metallica, Peter Gabriel, The Midnight and Perturbator. So my music will kind of sound like those (without ever reaching the greatness of those artists, of course). :-)