I feel Minimoog love

[thealien666]

Short cover by myself of this classic song on this classic instrument! Entirely done on the Mini only.
I was 12 years old when this song was originally released ! (and I obviously had no Moog synthesizer then, although I already wanted one ...)

http://soundcloud.com/thealien666/i-feel-minimoog-love

[Sweep]

Nicely done. Good to hear someone playing things by hand and not using sequencers, as well, even on such a uniformly rhythmic piece as this one.

[EricK]

Yes very nice, but I love me some sequencer music also.

[thealien666]

Thanks to all. Just to be clear, I'm not against sequencers. In fact this song was originally done with sequencers back in 1977 by Giorgio. I just don't have any yet. All I had was a click track as reference. The analog delay doubled the bass line notes in stereo, as was done originally with a tape delay back in the days.

I wanted to reproduce as closely as I could on the Minimoog the bass drum, snare, and hi-hat done by Pete Bellote on the Moog Modular.

Anyway, it was fun to do and that was the main goal. I'm glad some of you enjoyed that too.

[moogslob]

sounds fabbo!

[analogmadness]

One of my all time favorites, verry nicely done, great skills! Chapeau!

[thealien666]

One of my all time favorites, verry nicely done, great skills! Chapeau!

Thanks !

[Sweep]

I'm quite aware the original had sequencers. But that doesn't change the fact that I find it refreshing to hear it done without.

It takes massive skill to use sequencers musically, without sounding robotic. A few people have managed that, and also some songs/pieces get away with it because the rest of the music is sufficiently free and dynamic, but human feel is far more valuable than robotic precision. It's a great loss to electronic music that so many people take the easy route and make it robotic instead of taking the more difficult route and making it human. Better to develop your audience's humanity than to turn them into robots. What's really sad is that so many people seem to think sounding robotic is good.

[mikael488]

Thanks to all. Just to be clear, I'm not against sequencers. In fact this song was originally done with sequencers back in 1977 by Giorgio. I just don't have any yet. All I had was a click track as reference. The analog delay doubled the bass line notes in stereo, as was done originally with a tape delay back in the days.

Your "cover" sounds very nice, well done!

FYI: the bassline on Moroder's The Chase theme (from the Midnight Express soundtrack, 1978) was also done like this. Greg Mathieson (who played all the keys on the album version of the score) told me that for the bass parts he would play 8th notes (using his own Minimoog) and an AMS digital delay would play the 16th notes. Anthing that sounds sequenced wasn't.

I wanted to reproduce as closely as I could on the Minimoog the bass drum, snare, and hi-hat done by Pete Bellote on the Moog Modular.

I'm pretty sure it was Giorgio's then-programmer Robert "Robby" Wedel who did those sounds on the Moog modular, not Bellotte.

[thealien666]

Yes, you're absolutely right of course! I was thinking of Giorgio's associate producer Pete Belotte, when it was in fact the ingenious work of Robbie Wedel, who had also found a novel way to keep the Moog modular in sync with a click track, by using it as a trigger source, on a mutli-track tape machine.

Sorry about my mistake, that's what happens after many hours of work, you get things all mixed-up...

[dan thacker]

I quite like your rendition,I still think you should have attempted the vocals!

[thealien666]

I quite like your rendition,I still think you should have attempted the vocals!

Thanks Dan. Unfortunately, Donna Summer wasn't available...

[dan thacker]

I meant YOU,Al!

[thealien666]

I meant YOU,Al!

No, you don't really want me to sing, I'm telling you. I'd rather let a Minimoog D sing for me, because the analog drift on my voice is worst than anything imaginable...