Mooged out

Edd Kalehoff At The Moog Synthesizer

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Edd Kalehoff At The Moog Synthesizer , a seventies-tastic commercial for Schaefer’s beer, captures the full blown mooged-out scene of early 70’s synth mania.

Gil Trythall – Yakety Moog

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This is Gil Trythalls Yakety Moog, released in 1970 on the Mooged-out album Country Moog – Switched On Nashville. The original, Yakety Sax, was a 1963 track by Boots Randolph, known to most from the Benny Hill Show.

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 a mix that surfaced some years ago on the Internet for a short time, the compilation Switched-On Basic Hip. Who could resist a computer singing “I Walk The Line”, or Hugo Montenegro doing the Neil Diamond classic “Porcupine Pie”? It also features one of my favorite Walter Carlos tracks, the Burt Bacharach cover “What’s New Pussycat.”

Here are a few examples:

 

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

 

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

 

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

This is the sort of music people were making when Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Brian Eno created music that’s influenced a generation of synth freaks since.

Amazing, isn’t it?

Claude Denjean And The Moog Synthesizer

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A clip from a 70’s Mooged-out album – Claude Denjean And The Moog Synthesizer on United We Stand, 1971.

Cover Text: On this LP Claude Denjean comes to terms with the problem by giving the Moog its rightful place in a fair exchange between synthesizer and orchestra. To excitting settings of twelve great hit songs, this LP really gives you the Moog, in all its electronic glory. That plus the stereo excellence of Phase 4 adds up to irresistible listening.