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I love this great vintage Moog video - Micky Dolenz, by far the cutest of the Monkees, sings Daily Nightly. This is thought to be the first time a Moog was used on a pop record. 
Not sure who’s playing the drums and the bass - but Dolenz plays the third Moog modular off the assembly [...]

 

Marvin Gaye’s Sexual Healing vs Title Music from A Clockwork Orange by Wendy Carlos…as imagined by Phil RetroSpector.
Almost works for me - but it’d be better without the Marvin Gaye!

 

The Bob Moog Foundation has been awarded an “Archiving and Preservation Planning Grant” from the GRAMMY Foundation to assess the preservation needs of the over 300 reel-to-reel tapes in Bob’s archives.
These tapes include seminal works in synthesis from the mid-60s to the late 70s, such as works from Herb Deutsch, Wendy Carlos, Larry Fast, Isao [...]

 

Record label Ghostly International and cult programmers [Adult Swim] have paired up for a compilation of new music and art.
Ghostly Swim, a free 19-song collection, explores the Avant-Pop style that the Ann Arbor/New York City label has been been championing for the past 9 years. Ghostly Swim features artists like Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Tycho [...]

 

This is off topic a bit, but you gotta love this remake of the classic Lightcycle scene from Tron. The original may have had a great soundtrack by Wendy Carlos, but this one has a low-budget cool of its own.
via Kotaku

 

Edhardt is back with an impressive Wendy Carlos-style take on Bach:
“Here are some experiments I did in trying to mimic the style of Walter/Wendy Carlos’ synthesizer technique and style of timbres. Carlos was using a 1960’s era patchable modular Moog synthesizer with a different architecture than that of the Alesis Andromeda synthesizer. Each one has [...]

 

FractalDVD.com has an MP3 of the original Demonstration Record for the Moog 900 Electronic Music System.
You can preview the Moog demo below.
The Microgroove 10″ vinyl disk was produced, composed and realized by Walter Carlos, as a Trans-Electronic-Music-Production.
The disk is dated, but provides an interesting historical perspective on the state of electronic music in 1968.

 
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Reworking the classics with synthesizers has a long tradition, extending from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach to the Ferry Corsten/William Orbit take on Barber’s Adagio for Strings. Reinterpreting the classics is tough, though, and few electronic reinterpretations have proven to have much lasting interest.
Classics Regrooved is new compilation that features electronica arrangements of 15 themes from [...]