This vintage Polymoog promo film may just scare the **** out of you.
I don’t know if it’s the scary hand-held woodland footage, the cheesy horror-movie soundtrack, the woodland mimes (Shields & Yarnell?), the constant vuvuzela-esque hum, the diagonal knotty pine panelling, Mike Boddicker‘s awesome hair or the Polymoog’s 9 (nine!) presets.
Herbie Hancock, though, looks bad-ass as ever, like he could take on a bevy of ninjas with his left-hand alone.
The whole promo film is actually pretty awesome, both as a piece of electronic music history and as a window into the times.
Part 2 of this classic below.
Check it out and leave a comment with your thoughts!
The Moog Polymoog was made from 1975-1980.
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Wow, I think somebody filmed the projector. You can hear the projector running. Still incredibly cool.
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Mains hum?
But WTF with the mimes? When did mimes ever belong in a synth ad?
Between that and the Sequential Circuits ads with the Lord of the Rings Wizard guy, it makes me think that the whole synth industry must have been stoned through out the entire 70s.
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This is not the least bit scary, it's funny, it's meant to be funny, does not take itself too seriously. But I guess whoever prefers to write a series of asterisks instead of a simple word or confuses power line hum with Vuvuzelas is easily frightened by anything that is not streamlined for easy digestability.
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This is not scary, this is funny, not meant to be taken too seriously. What's scary is that this website deletes comments on a seemingly random basis. Maybe asterisk is a bad word, or is was something else.
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This is not scary, this is funny, not meant to be taken too seriously. What's scary is that this website deletes comments on a seemingly random basis.
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This is not ****, this is funny, not meant to be taken too seriously.
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So, it's official: The word sc_ary is not allowed. Someone's really frightened.
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I love the Patrick Moraz music during the mimes.
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I laughed, I cried, I peed my pants. I give it one and a half thumbs up!
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Let the nightmares commence.
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Wow, that's scary.
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totally dharma-esque style
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This was shown during the NAMM show of 75/76 in which people were probably crapping themselves… "Holy F***! A Polyphonic synthesizer!!!!!"
Despite the Polymoog's reliability issues and not-so-sturdy construction, the sound was actually pretty good. It was unique in that it wasn't your typical "fat" Moog, it was thin and meant to compliment your Mini or Odyssey. When used as such, the Polymoog actually held its own pretty well, until synths like the CS-80 and Prophet-5 were released.
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Your powers of deduction are impressive.
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