Music History

Moog Brings Back the Ancient Modular Synthesizer (This is Rather Awesome)

If you remember guys like Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Rick Wright playing keyboard devices the size of refrigerators, you’ll love that Moog, the pioneering synth company, has gone back to making some of those monsters.

Behold this glorious synthesizer porn.

Read more about the project at Wired. And if you still need more synth porn, Boing Boing has this video on the new Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Emeryville, California.

 

 

Alan Cross

is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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