analogia.pl is a labour of love by Maciek Polak, the main driving force behind the company. We are Poland’s only — and one of Europe’s longest-running — retail and repair centres for analogue synthesizers, analogue effects, and electric pianos.
We encourage you to explore our offerings, browse our past sales, and reach out with any questions you might have. We're happy to share our knowledge, advise you (for or against!) on your selections, or simply have a chat — there’s a lot to talk about in this fascinating field. A word of warning, though: over two decades of experience have taught us that the world of analogue synthesizers is highly addictive. You’re entering at your own risk.
Over the years, we've served some of the biggest names in the industry as well as countless anonymous synth enthusiasts — but we've chosen not to brag. Customer satisfaction has always been our top priority, and we'd rather be known for that. In short, analogia.pl are “the guys who deliver,” as someone once said.
A few years ago, we teamed up with Werkstatt Matlak — who have since become our friends, business partners, and close collaborators. Those who have followed us over the years may have noticed that we had stopped performing servicing work here at analogia.pl in Poland. That has now changed — please visit the "Repairs" section for WM’s contact details.
Mobile: + 48 601 685 431
Email: info@analogia.pl
Instagram: www.instagram.com/analogia.pl
Addresses:
Workshop (default shipping address)
Analogia.pl
Piekarnicza 26/1/10
80-126 Gdansk
Poland
Office (correspondence only, no parcels please)
Analogia.pl – Maciej Polak
Ul. Krola Jana Kazimierza 9/4
81-743 Sopot
Poland
Who is Maciek Polak really? What part of his life is music and how was analogia.pl born?
The music
Due to the nature of my work – that I love dearly and consider the best I could wish for – I sometimes find it hard to say where work ends and making music begins. Both have been present for so long and have intertwined to such a degree that it's often hard to tell them apart.
Nonetheless, here is my published discography:
As Maciek Polak
Exercises for Synthi AKS Solo (2018) - available on streaming platforms and YouTube
Synthi 100 non-tunes (2019) - available at maciekpolak.bandcamp.com
1972 (2022) - available on streaming platforms
1977 (2025) - available on streaming platforms
With Maciek Baczyk as Pin Park
Krautpark (2017) - available on YouTube
Doppelganger (2020) - available on streaming platforms
Blind Spot (2022) - available on streaming platforms
With Petr Yac as Tenemik
Bemenet / Kimenet (Autumn 2025 release)
History of analogia.pl
Contrary to an increasingly popular belief, there was life before the advent of the internet. For someone like myself, born in the late '70s — right at the tail end of the fantastic “analogue days” — it wasn’t an easy time. I came from a completely non-musical family, and during my teens, very few of my friends had anything to do with instruments beyond guitars. To make matters more complicated, proper analogue synths were relatively rare in Poland. During the not-so-fun communist era, they were prohibitively expensive — so much so that only institutions, not private musicians, could afford them.
If I had to mark a single moment of revelation, it would be reading a particular issue of Future Music magazine that featured a long article on the history of analogue synths. It hit me like lightning — I instantly knew this was my world. But I was a complete blank slate, with no one to turn to for guidance. And it would still be a while before the first internet café appeared in my city.
The first synths I bought — more or less at the same time — were two Korgs: the Poly-61 and the Mono/Poly. In hindsight, a pretty great selection. But back then, they weren’t easy choices. I had no one to ask for advice and no manuals to rely on. Still, absolutely fascinated by the analogue world, I began to decode this new language of subtractive synthesis. Why would a synth need two envelopes? What’s the difference between PW and PWM? If the Poly-61 is polyphonic, then what exactly is the Mono/Poly? And how do I check if I haven’t broken anything? These were the burning questions of my youth.
Then came the years of my early coach trips to the UK. I would literally hop on a regular Poland–London shuttle coach with a few synths — sometimes weighing over 100 kg — and travel 30 hours to London. There, I’d hope to be picked up by a client or a friend, depending on when the delivery was arranged. This face-to-face sales method helped me build a reputation and secure my place in the UK synth scene — something that proved extremely valuable later on. Let’s face it: back in those days, people weren’t exactly eager to send money to countries like Poland, which wasn’t even an EU member yet.
But the best was — and still is — yet to come. Not many years later, I connected with reliable suppliers in the Kyrgyz Republic, which opened the door to a plethora of peculiar and obscure Soviet-era synths, including the true classics: the Polivoks, Aelita, and Estradin. Unsurprisingly, while we're still in close contact, the complexity of doing business in post-Soviet Central Asia has made timely deliveries increasingly difficult. The recent civil unrest that brought the Kyrgyz Republic to the brink of civil war certainly didn’t help.
At a certain point, I decided it was time to travel to the United States and pick up the instruments I was after with my own hands. While the idea was solid in theory, I was still caught off guard by the sheer scale of the task once I landed. Thousands of miles to travel, the East Coast and Midwest to cover, and dozens of (sometimes very heavy) instruments to collect — it was a truly fascinating, if exhausting, experience. Though I travel far less these days, I still smile at memories like climbing through the mountains of West Virginia to pick up a Minimoog, or visiting a suburban Toronto studio to buy a Hammond RT-3 with a Leslie 122. Say what you will — no one can accuse me of not stretching the limits of imagination when it comes to this job.
All that said, if I had to name a single best aspect of running analogia.pl, it would be the chance to meet so many fascinating people. Jazz musicians, pop artists, electronic producers, experimental creators, passionate enthusiasts, serious collectors — they all remind me that I’m doing something meaningful. And if that sounds like a cliché, so be it. After all, music is for people, by people, and about people.
