From iamamiwhoami 's YouTube channel:

  "The Bob Moog Foundation announces a once in a lifetime raffle opportunity to begin Tuesday March 9, 2010 at 12pm (EST). The Foundation will be selling $50 raffle tickets for a chance to win one of Lou Reed’s Moog Guitars.

 Only 200 tickets will be made available. Participants can purchase raffle tickets online at the Foundation’s online store http://moogfoundation.org/shop . The raffle will close when the 200 tickets have been sold and a winner will be chosen by an automated random selector. All proceeds go to benefit the projects of the Bob Moog Foundation.

Moog Guitar, serial #005, signed and played by Lou Reed, to the Foundation. The strikingly beautiful instrument is a maple top Tiger Eye Flame with an ash body, maple neck and ebony fret board. Reed has signed the front of the guitar; his labels for the guitar’s controls remain on the instrument as well as the brackets for his guitar strap."

Have a peek at this vidoe of Mr. Reed himself checking out the Moog Guitar

Onward with the day - and have a good wander through the rest of the wonderful Bob Moog Foundation site, including this page featuring the upcoming 'Moogseum'. Fantastic.

Above - Klaus Schultze in 1976 with his army of machines to die for. (photo from KlausSchultze.com). He's featured in part 3.

Here are parts One through three...have a watch with me and let me know what you think - do you have links to more? I feel I may have to delve deeper into this beautiful breed of sonic sweetness for my own well- being. Enjoy:

Pssst - more goodness? Check out the great Krautrock.com as well. 

The most luscious detail is the sweet controller that she wears on her wrist - according to Create Digital Music, the fabulous  "wrist-strapped controller is Cyrille Brissot’s invention, aptly named “The Brissot.” 

Above photo by Elizabeth Sentianin from The Indie Handbook (and her Myspace page) - here is an excerpt from an interview with Émilie in The Indie Handbook where she gives us a brief explaination of her "Arm":

"So, basically it’s a remote control and it’s triggering effects on my software wirelessly, and I have it on my arm. I’ve had it since the first album, from the beginning, but we’ve had different systems. This is the third generation. At the time, we didn’t have all this wireless Play Station stuff like we have now that you can use for musical things. So we were using another system, but this one was built last summer, actually."

Read the rest here.

The Brissot reminds me delightfully of something out of Delicatessen, Bladerunner or Brazil. Anyway - I'm new to the world of Émilie Simon, so I'd now like to sit back w/ my coffee for a deeper peek...have a pleasing week, everyone.

Find her highly fabulous YouTube channel with lots of gorgeous clips here.

Who is it, kids? See these previous posts by Maf and myself for more thoughts...Loving this so.

The deadline is November 1st, 2010. Fantastic, yes? Now's your chance to merge your Delian and Optiganal love!
PS - Also, buy the "Minimalism" Optigan disc featuring Tara Busch here on Optigan.com.

The OptiTron from GForce Software

 As you surely know, GForce is one of the most brilliant music software companies around, and I use it constantly - the Oddity, Virtual String Machine, The Minimonsta and of course, my favorite, The M-Tron Pro. The M-Tron Pro is a brilliant chisel to add to any Mellotron lover's toolbox! And much to my excitement, They have just released their tasty OptiTron Expansion pack for M-Tron Pro! Here on the website, you will find some wonderful history behind the making of this fantastic plug in. I love the fact that you can reverse and "stack multiple discs", as well.

Check out these videos about the OptiTron.

I will soon be firing up a new project featuring this tasty new instrument - stay tuned for my adventures in Opti- Tronica! ( I must stop making up geeky words. Unless you have a better suggestion….)

So, indulge in some Optiginal bliss with Optigan.com & G-Force. You know it's good for you.

See these previous posts by Maf and by me about this gorgeous, sonic puzzle. Perfection to go with my mid morning espresso...  

Who is it? Lykke Li has now entered the picture as well (see comment on Maf's post), along with Christina Aguilera, Little Boots & Fever Ray. What do you think? I'm with Maf - whoever it is, it's brilliant.

Last week, I invited readers and my Twitter followers to send me their most delicious and ridiculous clips and pics...peek here for last week. 

Well indeed, we've decided to pop up another post of a few delights, shall we?

First off, this will get you in the mood. Read about this clip, previously posted here a few moons ago. It's lush:

Here's one I narrowly missed posting last week - synth head Kent Spong of KSR Synth Restoration posted this...(don't worry, he's probably fine..):

 Dig into this Buchla beauty from Richard Lainhart:

 Patrick Ingoldsby sent me a lovely batch of goods...here's  a classic the Mu-Tron III Stevie Wonder ad is stunning..(also on their site)

And the studio setup from one of my favorite bands, Sisters of Transistors...(and yes, I'm still looking to buy a Farfisa!

 On that note, midnight creeps in as well as my bedtime...Will surely see you soon for updates on our adventures...perhaps some new studio shots and movies from us if we lace up our roller skates just right this week.... 

tara   x

I saw the first video on December 7th (the link is no longer available due to copyright claim by Molly Nolte, whoever that is) and thought, as many people did, that it was a return to form for Goldfrapp. We were sent it at 12.13 am. I was watching QI from the BBC iPlayer on my laptop and heard a new email ping in the background. I clicked on the Youtube link and was kind of spooked out and immediately intrigued. I searched and found nothing relative to the name, video title, email address or IP. I was totally excited as from my point of view, this was a perfect meme. It had already commanded about 30 minutes of my time and plenty more in the next few days.

Secondly, you have the intrigue of who it is. This is obviously the major part of the meme and is very successful. You only have to do a quick search to see thousands of people discussing this on various forums and social networks all leading back to the Youtube channel. Currently on the latest Youtube installment, there's a handful of comments an hour, and plenty of arguments. Here is one of my favorites:

whatthehellisthiz (3 hours ago) for christ's sake! it's not little boots! she doesn't have anything new coming out! she's coming to the united states soon to promote her debut album, which sounds and is NOTHING like this. research before you spout off

kris120890 (2 hours ago) Wtf are you talking about you stupid moron. How does her going to the united states prove its not her. Why can't you get over your own stupidity.

whatthehellisthiz (1 hour ago) READ! she's promoting her debut album in the united states which came out last year in june and sounds nothing like this! my god you have no sense of logic.

kris120890 (1 hour ago) Coming from you thats funny. Somehow releasing an album in one place means that they can't release another album in another place. Even if it isn't her you can't help but come the most stupid reasoning

whatthehellisthiz (1 hour ago) please stop embarrassing yourself. you obviously have no idea how the industry works.



This is viral marketing at its best; everybody wins. We get some great entertainment and they get some publicity. Having spent the last month running online Super Bowl campaigns for automotive and electronic manufacturers, I know what mainstream advertising agencies think 'viral marketing' is. Well, of course they haven't got much of a clue. Viral marketing is all about the meme, a parcel of information that is naturally passed on from one person to another by choice. In order for people to pass on a meme, they need to be paid (usually) in the form of entertainment, and iamamiwhoami pays very well indeed.

Of course, when I say I don't care who it is, I really mean that I don't mind. I'm actually dying to know. For me, it's brilliant if it's a new up and coming act or a major star. So far, the favorite is Christina Aguilera, followed closely by Lady GaGa. Other names dropped in the hat are Fever Ray, Little boots, Bjork, Goldfrapp, Golden Filter and a couple of emails asking if it's Tara ;). This is mainly based on the girls face in the video. If it is a major star, then we may finally have some incredible mainstream art instead of the desperate recycled trite that these acts have been squeezing out over past few years. If it is Christina, she's finally become a real artist, a significant graduation from being a star. I'll take my hat off to her for creating this (and all the others involved) and to RCA/Sony for letting an artist release this kind of material and in this way.


I have some serious doubts that it's Christina or any of these. I'm pretty confident that it's an up and coming act and that maybe the girl in the video is not the star, but part of the performance. I'm really excited to see what they'll produce. I just hope that the first release is as good as I imagine and that their second is not yet another rehash of disco 70's hits or 80's synth pop, or whatever the silly current trend is. Roll on iamamiwhoami! I'm rooting for you whoever you are.

 They can be photos you've found (be sure to include the credits &/or source), photos of your studios, machines........whatever makes the patch cords of your heart strings sizzle upon sight (oh yeah - isn't it Valentine's Day tomorrow?) ! 

If you have some to share, please send them to me using my Twitter page, Facebook Fan Page or the contact form to the left.

 The first succulent crop is the result of a Tweet I posted today, requesting favorite synth pics from my 'followers' on Twitter. Let me start by posting the photo that sparked it all - sent to me on Facebook...people seem to think it's an early Keyboard Magazine photo...any thoughts?

Next is from Mark Ty Wharton; this gorgeous creature was apparently used by the Beatles as a synth, the AKAT-1. Previously posted on the gorgeous blog, Retro Thing:

Above pic - via Retrothing.com

 Let's get Radiophonic! Here are a few lovely pics sent to me from LaurieLaptop - these succulent Daphne Oram and Delta Unit Plus era Radiophonic Workshop photos. Tell me, do we see the killer EMS Synthi 100, lovingly nicknamed the 'Delaware' in here? By the way, if you know the photo credits, please inform, I couldn't find them.

See the above previously on Matrixsynth

Below - Anyone know what this beautiful beast is? I'm sure you do...do tell (sent from LaurieLaptop)!!

And more from LaurieLaptop - Radiophonic gorgeousness - can you name each delicious machine?

Must..post more! Via Twitter from _alka and some "hardcore synthesizer "patching" via Noiseconformist:

Above, Daphne Oram, 'Wobbulating'! Via SoundonSound.com

Till next time - We'll surely see more naughtiness next week...bring your sense of humour and patch cords!! Again, if anyone knows the above photo credits, please let me know.