Close Encounters Of The Synth Kind

Artist: Magnus Lassila
Release Year: 2022

Description: This isn’t just another modular ambient album — it’s a sonic invasion.
Close Encounters of the Synth Kind tells a story without narration.
Inspired by sci-fi classics like "Close Encounters of The Third Kind" "War of the Worlds" and "Independence Day", the album unfolds as a modular first contact scenario — except this time, the aliens are the synthesizers.
Each patch is a character. Each modulation is a message. And every track brings the listener deeper into an encounter with something vast, unknowable, and humming at 50Hz.
Built entirely on Eurorack systems, the album blends ambient drift with structured tension — alien communications, terrestrial warnings, and otherworldly harmonics swirl together in a slow crescendo of contact.

They're here.
They sound amazing.
And they don’t want war.
They want to patch.