Tag: Moog
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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Peter Zinovieff
Great interview with composer and synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff who co-invented the EMS synthesisers and called the ‘British Bob Moog’ and the amazing EMS studio started 50 years ago. I didn’t know he worked with a ZX81, but mostly abandoned computer music for 30 years. And he uses REAPER now!
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Tabula Rasa – new mix
Something I’ve been working on for a few weeks is a different kind of mix…I hate the words ‘downtempo’ or ‘chilled’ *shudder* but at some point I stripped all the uptempo tunes out of this mix, I wanted something deeper, something heavier, something that says ‘blank slate’ and new start – hence the name and…
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Mort Garson
Exploring the world of Mort Garson at the moment. I’m not really how you go from this, funky disco Kung Fu, to Moog Satanic spooktronica in a similar vein to Haack’s Electric Lucifer album: To Summer of Love floaty psychedelic astrology floaty bobbins (thanks to Ben Soundhog for pointing me in the direction of this…
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60’s chillwave dubtronica
So for those who think their ambient nu-gaze chillwave electronica dubbed out hipster doodles are somehow new (as millennials invented *everything* first dontchano :-P), here’s electronic and lounge pioneer Dick Hyman to school you along with Mary Mayo on vocal theremin duties. Yes some of this album is dated in a samba/lounge fashion, but this…
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RC 172: All Change (Oddz and Sods 12)
Original CC image by Lord Jim, design by Tim B under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK Whew what HASN’T happened since the last show? New US President -and he’s black. New back pains and colds for Tim – and he’s ill. Yes we can, and No to H8, but not during happy hour or eating…