REVIEW: Various Artists, Best of Moog (Loud Records)
- Mike Pfeiffer
Let's face it: today's electronic music has become too sophisticated for the average listener. From catchy beats produced on a couple of pieces of cheap equipment to today's complicated equation of rhythms, breakbeats and samples from multiple pieces of expensive gear, it's like you need a degree in electronica just to decipher it.
The people behind the "Best of Moog" collection, Disinformation, an interesting website at http://www.disinfo.com , and Loud Records understand this dilemma.
Best of Moog takes the listener back to the kinder, gentler, and certainly simpler days of electronic music. These songs are all moog tracks, where the main instrument is the funky moog synthesizer. Although a few of the songs will remind you of those demo tracks on the Casio at Toys'R'Us, that's the beauty of things.
Best of Moog gets back to the basics with 19 moog classics. Chances are you've heard these melodies before in one form or another, "The Savers" was the theme to the TV game show "Joker's Wild," "Shank" is a moog take off on Issac Hayes "Shaft." The final track features old school meets new school as Fatboy Slim extends an old moog standard. If you like electronic music pay some respect to the founding fathers and buy Best of Moog.
