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Moog is running a promotion through the end of the year, offering a free Moog CP-251 Control Processor with the purchase of one of their synths. 
A lot of people have no idea what the CP-251 is good for though, so they made this video, featuring Jordan Rudess and Brian Kehew, that offers an overview of the [...]

 

This video captures Another World Bank, an experimental electroacoustic work:
Another World Bank is a multi-observer audiovisual installation. It performs a unique composition that continues for the duration of the exhibition period. The composition is made up of three independent channels of randomly-ordered, brief solo improvisations. Each solo channel is a different length, thus phasing begins [...]

 

Peter Albrektsen demos four famous Minimoog synth patches.
Kit Watkins Minimoog Patch

 

Moog Music is offering a free CP-251 Control Processor (normally $399) with the purchase of any Minimoog Voyager, Old School or Little Phatty synthesizer from an authorized Moog dealer through December 31, 2008, 
This is an awesome freebie - it basically turns your synth into a modular synthesizer. Based on Control Voltage technology, The CP-251 expands the sonic potential [...]

 

This is a vintage experimental electronic music video, Intersticies, by Robert Edgar. 
Produced in 1973 at Synapse Video in Syracuse, NY. Material was shot on 16mm film, then transferred to video and electronically manipulated, finally kinoscoped back to 16mm film. For transfer to the web, the film was projected and captured using a Panasonic HVX200A at [...]

 

Ohm Force has announced a fun contest - How The Minimonsta Saved The World.
How it works: you make a cool track with Minimonsta before November 30th (you can use the free demo version), you send it to Ohm Force, you win cool stuff. Details here.
How The Minimonsta Saved The World comic below:

 

Funky radio station WFMU has the motherload of Switched On Space Age Mooged Out synth music available for download as MP3s:
In a time of nearly uniformly bad news, Obama’s election is certainly a good reason to rejoice, and what would a celebration be without a good dose of Space Age Moog music?
o today I offer [...]

 
icon for podpress  Rick Powell - I Walk The Line [2:20m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Sid Bass - Spanish Flea [2:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
icon for podpress  Enoch Light - What The World Needs Now [2:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
 

This is a direct comparison between a vintage analog Moog Minimoog (1976) and a Creamware Minimax ASB, trying to use the same settings on both instruments and playing them together or one at a time.
The video was recorded “live” with two cameras and a Panasonic AVE5 video mixer (I’m switching channels manually between takes) and [...]