Electrophotonic Timesinks

This post is from my old Livejournal, moogcoon. It’s a bit silly reading it now, but I’m putting it up with as few edits as possible. The download links are password protected, and I only ever gave it out to close friends.

Ever wondered what it would look like if Hitler’s corpse was never torched in a shell crater in Berlin, but was instead reanimated with a diet of amphetamines and kept alive into the eighties, forced to play keyboards with a severely caffeinated girly boy in a techno pop band, and gave him just enough self-awareness to be most displeased with his predicament?

Originally I had the excellent No 1 Song in Heaven video here, but since Warner Music have gone all anal about their PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL showing up on Youtube, I have to settle for this recording from German TV

Look, a minimoog!

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This post is from my old Livejournal, moogcoon. It’s a bit silly reading it now, but I’m putting it up with as few edits as possible. The download links are password protected, and I only ever gave it out to close friends.

So what’s this Moog thing I keep mentioning then? Well, it’s not exactly obscure so you might already know something about it, but basically Robert “Bob” Moog developed one of the first practically usable electronic synthesizers back in the middle 60s.

Robert “Bob” Moog and a modern Minimoog Voyager. Photo STOLEN from the NY Times.

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This post is from my old Livejournal, moogcoon. It’s a bit silly reading it now, but I’m putting it up with as few edits as possible. The download links are password protected, and I only ever gave it out to close friends.

Let me start by introducing a friend of mine. He’s fat, italian, and sports a wonderfully thick ’stache. No, he isn’t everybody’s favorite plumber, but a certain producer you might, or might not, have heard of.

Mr. Moroder likes synths and vocoders. The control panels lining the walls are all part of a Moog Modular synthesizer, and to the left is a Minimoog, both of which I’m bound to write about later. He’s also well aware of the thinning properties of striped shirts, and has strategically put one on for this photo occasion.

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