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Moog Original Film Soundtrack Hollywood/Warners
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Devotees of the squelching Moog synthesiser will find much to coo about in this selection of music which puts the lid on Hans Fjellestad's film on the life and times of electronic music pioneer Bob Moog. While Moog gave his name to the gloriously bleepy machine, it's the artists who continue to use this synth that ensure the Moog's place as electronic music's chic status symbol. Moog fans are here in force: Money Mark, Luke Vibert, Stereolab (a Mooging band if ever there was one) and Tortoise show how they use the instrument to put a pep in their beeps. For all Bob Moog's musings about the extra-terrestrial connections between musician and machine, though, it all comes down to the bleeps. www.moogmovie.com

Jim Carroll