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Tag: Popular Music
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YMO in the Studio [1982?]
WARNING this video contains Roland MC-4 & LinnDrum! 私はそれが事項は、黒、白や黄色と考えないでください。 あなたの音楽音する教育と社会的背景の質問である。 人種の違いでありませんでした。 それは、脳の左と右サイドのいずれかの操作を行いますことを何もしたのです。 それは環境にするのです。
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Beatles Electroniques [1969]
Video created by Nam June Paik & Jud Yalkut at WGBH television studios in Boston, MA in 1969. WGBH was a hub for early video experimenters in the late 1960s & early 1970s. In this video, Beatles footage is “Wobbulated” as part of a larger broadcast project by Paik called Video Commune (Beatles From Beginning To End). [...]
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DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS [1982-1986/7]
Thanks to DIGITAL PRODUCTIONS, the world received some beautiful & forward-thinking computer animations in the early/mid 1980s. Posted here is the company’s demo reel from 1984 [you must love the SMPTE leader intro], along with the zany music video they helped to create for the Mick Jagger song “Hard Woman” circa 1985/6. Other popular DP [...]
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DEVO: Time Out For Fun [1982]
DEVO have released many innovative music videos into the world over the years. Anyone out there know what variety of video equipment was used to help craft this beautiful video? Directed by Gerald Casale, Devo chief-strategist.
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Roger Troutman on VIDEO SOUL
Here’s a gold-suited Roger demonstrating his “golden throat“ expertise (with minimoog carrier) & joking around with Donnie Simpson on BET’s VIDEO SOUL in 1987. Roger is a beautiful artist & unparalleled entertainer, one of the all-time greatest. Anyone remember VIDEO SOUL out there? Can you imagine Roger as a stand up comedian? “DIG-I-TAL DIG-I-TAL DIG-I-TAL DIG-I-TAL [...]
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Ryuichi Sakamoto & The Fairlight CMI
Let us return now back to the CMI. Here is a fun interview clip with Ryuichi Sakamoto & his Fairlight CMI, from 1984. The interview is a little awkward, probably due in large part to the language barrier – it is almost as if the camera crew just dropped in unexpectedly to say “hello” to [...]
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Monkees Moog 1967/8
An interesting Monkees music video clip here, that initially aired on March 11, 1968 (filmed April 18-20 1967). This may be the first Moog system ever pictured on national TV??? It resembles a System IIIP, but it may be an earlier custom model III built for Micky Dolenz – another among the very first swarm [...]
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Roger McGuinn – Futurist & Forward Thinker
Roger McGuinn is probably known best as the founder of 1960s folk-rock musical group, The Byrds. It may come to some surprise that he has always been a bit of a forward-thinker & technology “freak”. Incidentally, he was among the first in the rock community to begin using the Moog synthesizer for musical purposes, in [...]
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Can You Identify This Workstation?
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Happy Valentine’s Day – but can you identify the workstation featured in this 1983 The System video? A special synthesizer-related prize will be awarded to the first three (correct) responders! UPDATE 4/13/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 5/25/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 8/26/11: one correct answer so far! UPDATE 10/14/11: one [...]
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George Harrison & The Moog System IIIp
George Harrison was one of the first pop musicians to embrace the synthesizer. Some of his most well known Moog texturings are heard loud & clear within this insightful isolation mix of the Here Comes The Sun recording from 1969 (also enjoy his handclaps): The synthesizer instrument used for this session was the Moog System IIIp (four [...]
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Christopher Currell
Christopher Currell – Synclavier, rhythm arrangements & digital guitar for Michael Jackson’s 1987 BAD album & subsequent world tour. Shown here during a sound check at Madison Square Garden, March 1988 w/ dual Synclavier for that tour. Mr. Currell also programmed Synclavier for Rob Meurer’s A Synth For Christmas (see previous post), one of the [...]
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Brian Wilson playing ARP Odyssey
BW on white ARP Odyssey. Circa 1973 Wonder what he’s working on. Perhaps something from Mount Vernon and Fairway? (excerpt) Mount Vernon & Fairway (Theme).mp3