Music history is important. No matter what you create, it has a lineage -especially in the last 100 years as art and technology have become one and the same. So if you wanna move it forward, know your roots. In the early 1970’s the synthesizer was, now more than ever, making its way into main stream music production. One such group, TONTO’s Expanding Head Band, started collaborating with a young Motown singer songwriter named Stevie Wonder. The main instrument used was a synthesizer known as TONTO; an acronym for “The Original New Timbral Orchestra,” the world’s first (and still the largest) multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer. The end result produced four albums (known as Stevie’s classic period) that went on to collect fourteen Grammy awards. Get your jean jacket and suspenders on and witness some of this ground breaking work in the embedded YouTube video below.