{"id":3103,"date":"2013-11-22T13:54:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T18:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/portal.luakabop.com\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2016-04-06T05:52:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T10:52:35","slug":"the-moog-luaka-bop-william-onyeabor-remix-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.luakabop.com\/portal\/bloggo\/the-moog-luaka-bop-william-onyeabor-remix-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The MOOG & Luaka Bop – William Onyeabor REMIX SERIES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the 1970’s I had a synthesizer. It was a Putney VCS 3. It looked like this:<\/p>\n

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If you look closely you will see that it had a patch panel that you would use little pins to connect one part of the synthesizer to another. My skills were such that all I could do with this is set up a patch creating a sound and then, over the course of days, the cheap potentiometers in the synth would drift apart and create amazing sounds that I could never have gotten by myself. It impressed the girls. Anyway I sold it to a friend at the time named Raymond for $100, I see now in writing this they go for $12,000!!! Yikes.<\/p>\n

A slight bit after the release of the Putney, Moog released the Mini Moog synth. This revolutionized the use of synthesizers in performing music as there were no longer those weird and hard to use patch bays to create sounds. Also it was a much better made piece of equipment then my Putney.<\/p>\n