Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth | Adult Swim
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- Three legendary synth musicians compete in a cosmic battle for synth dominance, in this recently-unearthed concert from 1986.
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Quite possibly the best quote ever: "There is only one hope for humanity: the synthesizer."
Live at the Necropolis: Lords of Synth | Adult Swim
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It’s criminal that this masterpiece of art doesn’t even have 1m views over 4 years. And you got to think that this cost Adult Swim at the minimum 100k to produce from paying actors, paying crew, catering and post production etc. So thank you Adult Swim for just pissing away your money. Sincerely, thank you.
Things have moved on quite a bit in the passing of the three years since your comment about four years passing.
All art is a waste of money, that's why it's awesome
@JBBostt what are you doing here? Why did we look this up today?
RIP Vangelis, the synthesizer truly is our only hope.
The beautiful thing is that -- after this video came out -- Vangelis actually did score a comet. The album is Rosetta.
F to Vangelis, and F to anyone who found out about his death this way.
We still have Wendy Carlos. She's cool.
Who?
"Who drinks a lot, even for an Italian"
8:49 - "This funky tune has resurrected Panos... like the Christ." That line couldn't have been delivered any more perfectly.
whoever wrote this is genius
you're welcome
Thank the Bug Mane
buzz buzz
Like everyone who listens to or makes Synth
After 4 years of this comment lingering unanswered, we finally learn that the creator is called Scott Gairdner.
I think my favorite moment is when Zoroger(GM) announces that he has the power to stop the destruction, and then launches into a cheesy flat sythn bass line. Which is totally a Moroder move.
The moment Xangelix bestowed a blessing upon Panos the Wonder Child was very moving. Pure magic.
god damn, Adult Swim, you really, *really* know who your target audience is
i love you guys
+The Sunshine Group HOLY SHIT IM THE TOP COMMENT I MAKE SYNTH MuSIC SUBSCRIBE TO ME
good shit out of that... ok, let's rool back to our italian broadcasted soap opera of a priest that rides a bicycle and solves cases stuffed with obviousness and pro religious thoughts
@@redoverdrivetheunstoppable4637 w Don Matteo e viva Zoroder
I agree with you, we need to be more innovative in tv
I assumed it was all synth players who decided to work in television
nerds in film love the synth and alt comedy
This definitely fills a void of weird that I've been missing.
How could you create something so genius as Panos the Wonder Child and only have them be in this one thing
Agreed. tbh Panos should be a recurring interdimensional character across various Adult Swim media at least those in which the Wonder Child would fit the tone.
Didn’t Panos The Wonder Child direct “Mandy” and “Beyond The Black Rainbow”? Or is that another Panos I’m thinking of?
"This funky tune has resurrected Panos, like the Christ"
Don't you understand? They freed Panos so that he could be with us all! Go forth and write the Book of Panos.
Aka Panos der Wünderkind
This is still the greatest thing adult swim has ever done.
Agreed
Could not agree more
I dunno "Too Many Cooks" tho lol
Hell no.
@@kevf lol "toooo many cooks (tooOOoo manyyyYY coooks)"
I just want to know everything about Panos the Wonder Child.
+James Hall perhps a pieozo electric chair could reveal the secrets of panos.
Most people today have heard of Panos the synthesizer, as his name has been popularized over the centuries and his story has been dramatized in numerous novels, films, and television programs. The powerful synth lord is depicted with many magical powers, including the power of shapeshifting and is well-known in mythology as a tutor and mentor to the legendary Dr. Strange, ultimately guiding him towards becoming the king of Mars. While these general tales are well-known, Panos initial appearances were only somewhat linked to Dr.Strange. It took many decades of adaptations before Panos became the wonder child and legend he is known as today.
..he was resurrected like the christ..
I think he grew up and went on to direct Beyond The Black Rainbow, inspired largely by his experiences here.
All I know is that his moves are out of this world.
I love how they've got a modular Moog, a Jupiter 8, an Oberheim (OB-x?), and an Emulator, but when they get to the final performance it's just a bunch of crappy cheap keyboards spray painted white xD
This has always bothered me so much - particularly Carla Wendos. She'd never play a digital synth.
@@joshuaa.c.newman7430 GDS Synergy was an early digital additive synth and she programmed most of the library for it, also years later she was a huge user of Kurzweil K2000 and other elaborate hybrid synths
SynthAddict Huh! Didn’t know that! Still, if she achieved her Ultimate Synthesis Form, I’m pretty sure it would with be a giant weird modular. Glowing white, of course.
Ah they jumped the shark just before that with Moroder on the M-Audio Axiom 25! But all the same this was pitch-perfect, and avoided any cheap shots at Carlos.
Obviously these are midi and/or CV controllers that are tapping into the collective power of the lords combined synth collection
06:24 "let's go ahead and fade up the doomsday clock"
hahaha. so relaxed like it's just normal.
To be fair I suspect all TV stations in the 80's had a Time Until Impact Doomsday Clock available to fade up at all times. The cold war was getting pretty hot.
During the Cold War everybody kept an eye on the Doomsday Clock daily.
i hope this shows up as documented 80s footage thousands of years from now.
And the dialup board that hosts it only has a 19.2K modem
I was tripping on mushrooms in highschool and fell asleep to family guy or some shit and woke up to this, I was in such genuine awe of the presentation, and was absolutely convinced I was watching footage from the 80's
Unfortunately the parodied artists are so well documented that it will be pretty clearly labelled as a spoof of the 80s.
@@JonesCrimson b-... but.... what if the year is 20,232 and you are on the outer peripheries of Alpha Centauri and the signal from a now off-kilter Dish Network satellite is just getting there and they have no previous music history other than what's received on the Country Music Channel because anything below VH1 was scrambled due to trans-solar distortions? :O
I took like 2 minute to realize this wasn’t genuine footage 😂
the art direction on this is spot on
Art
+John Waldeyer The Synth Lords rule over time. They traveled to the future to get that Ax.
+John Waldeyer Damn I thought exactly the same thing ("That's an Axiom25")... That being said I'm like the nerdiest synth guy in the universe. ;)
+Pedro Nogueira Except for the fact that broadcast television was not 16:9 until the last decade or so. If they wanted to really make it authentic they should have released it in 4:3 format.
+Secret Friend While it would have been broadcasted in 4:3, it would have been filmed on traditional widescreen film, and Adult Swim says that they unearthed it. This isn't the original broadcast.
This is fantastic, so many nerdy synth jokes.
I always knew you was a stoner too, dude. You can't have a voice like that with just some beer
Fly safe. : 3
So i see you're a synth fan too?
Great minds think alike!
Like?
I`m here to pay the appropriate annual respect to the lord of synth, for saving planet earth, we wouldnt be here if it wasnt for them
today this event is largely forgotten, but back in the 80's it was a big deal
I remember where I was that night like it was last night.
I don't remember where I was last night.
"...It apears to have taken affect *just take a look at how pink his ear blood is*"
R.I.P. Vangelis, may you and Panos the Wonderchild forever vibe in the cosmos.
Adult Swim: "Hey Billy, we're going to need you to write about 8,000 music related puns for a 10 min. internet video, thanks buddy."
Your mom enjoys music
in all likelihood this aired on tv at least a few times super late at night
A couple of years ago, I must've stumbled upon this under the influence of Zoloft, and watched the whole thing half asleep or almost falling asleep. For the longest time I had no recollection of this, up until today when I was shuffling some songs and landed on Vangelis, at which point the vague memory of synth musicians battling a comet rushed into my brain, which I promptly convinced myself was something I'd made up on the spot. Nevertheless, I decided to Google it, found the video, and remembered the circumstances.
What an incredible video. What an experience.
You mean like recreational Zoloft??
Did Zoloft made your ears bleed pink?
Adult Swim, you know exactly what I want to watch when I'm stoned.
lmao
+StellarJaeger I assure you they have no cameras installed in your home
You took the words out of my mouth!
At least you have an excuse for why you enjoy this. I don't do drugs, so what's going on in my brain?!
I got stoned, then got on youtube. This was recommended to me so I clicked it, paused it and went and had another cone. This has been the best 10 minutes of my life.
Yes.
More.
Never change, adult swim.
Not enough love in the comments for Rodolfo the Clockmaker
True
i bet they were just trying to make a non racist role for the black actor in the bunch, and ended up with just something run of the mill, clock mill, honorable, blue collar... and italian for some reason. I can imagine hes leonardop da vincos cousins friend or something
@@AckzaTV What the fuck are you talking about?
I did not get that one.
Any clockmaker knows about crystals and it's oscillations, same as the ones used in many synth oscillators chips
This really happened but has been erased from our collective memory.
I was there when it happened…
It happens every time Halley's comet passes, and every time the memory fades into myth
just like disco
Lmaoo
Bearensteine effect, that.
this could be the best video on the internet
Such a specialized video for such a narrow niche. Very few people will get it, or even know about those 3 characters they are making fun of.
I LOVE IT!
I wouldn't say they are "making fun" of them.
Judging by the music they made for everyone, they are clearly paying huge respects, in their own way.
I'm one of them . But I do like my cyber metal/ industrial music
I wouldn't say you need to be into synthesizer/electronic music to find this funny - I had no idea these characters were based on real people until after seeing this video and I still loved the absurdity of the whole thing.
I know nothing about synth or these musicians but I was dying laughing at this
@foxhoundslug in case you're interested:
"Xangelix" is a reference to the late, great Vangelis. You may know his work from the Blade Runner soundtrack and Chariots of fire.
"Morgio Zoroger" is a reference to Giorgio Moroder who scored Scarface and basically invented EDM.
"Carla Wendos" is a reference to Wendy Carlos, a hugely important pioneer in the development of electronic music and close friend of Robert Moog. She scored The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Tron.
"He drinks a lot, even for an Italian."
I found that funnier than I should
Italians are lightweights, sincerely your Slovenian neighbors.
@@bojcio True! Italians are the closest to the heart of what is Latin is being near present day Rome. Slovenia was colonized partially by Venetians in Italy. Ljubljana is beautiful ... Unfortunately, the Slav/Germanic stain does infect them.
This Is so niche that I feel it was made just for me 😂
I was thinking the same xD
I remember when this actually happened in real life. I wish I'd ordered the tape but I didn't have $47 to spare. I'm sure glad that Halley's Comet didn't destroy the earth.
+Ed Heil 47 bucks was pretty steep back then. It was like, half your pogey check man...
+dale tonello and "switched on Bach" before it, the most sold classical music album ever.
I've always wondered where the second moon came from
I wish I was born before the second moon arrived. I'll never be able to fully enjoy the ocean with those extreme tides...
@@sugahrghebare._.2052 Yes, you're absolutely right. People don't consider inflation. In 1986 that would have been $112 in today's US dollars. data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=48&year1=198608&year2=201909
"A high water mark of civilisation". Well this should be a real treat.
And it was true at the end lmao
I love that these are based on the actual synth gods ,Vangelis, Georgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos.
yes we all got the joke thanx
Actually, I appreciate this comment, I had heard of Wendy Carlos but I was wondering who the others were. Excited to go give them all a listen! ☺
The three characters were actually very much like that in real life. Vangelis looks like Xangelix. Moroder was more of the funky pop style producer. And Wendy (originally Walter irl) did use patchwork, and in my opinion was neck and neck with Vangelis in talent; she scored The Shining and Tron, genius. OK I'll stop nerding out now
I owned all their albums 😊
@@brassattacks2411 Wendy also did the original Switched on Bach that was the first time a lot of people heard a synth (also the syth stuff in the Clockwork Orange soundtrack)
It saddens me greatly that three years later, this beautiful creation has yet to break 1,000,000 views
KINDA LIKE IT LIKE THAT. ITS OUR SECRET JOY!
Seriously, meanwhile "BABYMAMA57's BEST MAKEUP TIPS" etc. are sitting at millions of views.
@@ninjastah Yeah me too, I like when really good things remain underground
almost there now. just a few thousand left to go.
Can't believe I've just found this!
Edgar Tangram & Zedd Centauri -- Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream. Tangerine Dream's album Alpha Centauri. Their record label Ohr had a pink ear as a logo.
Deepest lore
Tangram was a Tangerine Dream album as well.
Carla Wendos - Wendy Carlos
I think I remember seeing this live back in the day.
J.R. Trevino Ha
You know what, I think I did too. I seldom watch Adult Swim because I don't have the channel but that one I caught live from a hotel room. Glad I could share in this momentous event.
😂 back in, like 2016 or such that is...
Ya me too. I was able to record it on vhs at my pep pep’s duplex.
Me too. I went to a garage sale and found the 8-track tape of the live concert.
I watch this regularly to relax and fall asleep. A VHS from another dimension. I will always love this. Thank you for making this exist, Adult Swim
Saaaaaame. I want to live in this reality.
John Mitchell Jar is at home crying, still waiting for his phone call.
Actually he discovered the afinity of the comet with the sound of the sinthetizers the year before of this record. He practically bought us time, together with Hisao Toyotomi and Delilah Deshire. Sadly the event needed who the comet be very next to Earth for get a definitive effect. At least, they were able to ralentize the comet advance, so this other great event was posible.
Can we go ahead and make this a regular series?
That'd be awesome
lets get some more likes on this comment stat
Please make it happen. Someone start a Kickstarter???
It would lose it's magic
Still relevant.
*A pulsating ball of pure energy* . . .
+Ｓｔａｙｎｉｆｔｙ
it's always the ones you least expect
i cant believe it showed up for THIS!
Rest In Peace to the real world Xangelix, the mighty Vangelis - this character is a fun-loving tribute to him, and whenever I watch this video from here on, I’ll tip my Synth-preciating LoS cap to him. Your comet now flies free across the cosmos, Legend among Legends. - The Adult Swim Community Podcast | The Blade Runner Podcast
RIP to a legend. Watching this in his honor
I'm so glad there's so many of us here for this reason
Can we please get Live at the Necropolis concert T's? I'd kill for one.
God only goes by one name, and so does Xangelix.
There is only one hope for humanity.... The synthesiser
They said there couldn't be a perfect comedy sketch.
They were wrong.
This is the best piece of art released by man kind
when i have children and they ask what synth is, i will show them this
And they'll be none the wiser
When will this be available on Betamax?
J Booth It’s already out on LaserDisc and DAT!
Laserdisc boy
On laser disc mini!
John Aitken 😂
sorry Betamax
RIP Sweet prince, Vangelis.
If you don’t know, this is based on real synth lords
Xangelix- Vangelis
Morgio Zoroger -Giorgio Moroder
Carla Wendos- Wendy Carlos
Holy shit they are real! Thank you for that, made this video so much more special and funny.
Also looks like Panos is still working at Acute Cosmosynthpath
www.linkedin.com/in/panos-the-wonderchild-613baa178
Thank you. I was wondering Xangelix and Carla whom are referring to.
@@FulioBagginz gee idk about xangelix
you're still going to have to explain who the real people are. vangelus was known for chariots of fire. moroder was known for the music arrangement for I feel love, a Donna summer song and Wendy Carlos nee Walter was known for the original Tron soundtrack
This is better than Eurovision.
Eurovision is shit. 😅
@@shizukagozen777 qft
Everything is better than Eurovision
a pulsating ball of pure energy
I think this is my favourite Adult Swim peculiarity.
I was watching some synth reviews and 'the algorithm' brought me here, first time it works favorably.
this is one of the best things adult swim ever did. right up there with space ghost coast to coast. unreal.
Cartoon planet staring meeeee, and me, and me.
Panos The Wonder Child. LOL
Makes you think
resurrected like the Christ.
This is honestly the most absurd Adult Swim short ever. Usually they're surreal but have a message to tell, hidden under all the nightmare stuff... Here you have Panos The Wonder Child
I love it
This has a very powerful message, actually.
@@VuotoPneumaNN True!
RIP Vangelis, your sounds will echo for eternity.
First time watching, I felt like this stylish live-action short captured my heart instantly. I happen to be a fan of Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos. Plus, I often use synthesizers to create my own music.
All in all, I consider this short a truly passionate homage to the three musicians in question and synthesizer music in general. So, thank you, Abominable Pictures, for gracing us with this unique short.
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Her name is Wendy Carla and I think we would all appreciate if you respected her transition ✊
I love the bit where he goes " strange to see him acting so dangerously in the low end but I think he has just barely survived" 🤣 I wanna see this video on my deathbed just so I can laugh one last time.
@@senatorbencarson33 🥴
@@senatorbencarson33 what in the balls😂
This is the best live action "Regular Show" episode, ever.
Ulf clearing his throat while two stepping at 9:15 cracks me up.
Pure magic! Being surrounded by synthesizerns, dressed in a white cape and saving the world... What a dream for all of us nerds growing up in the 70’s and 80’s
Adult Swim watched Regular Show and said, “we could do that”
Well that's it I'm going to Zykos University and getting a Phd in MIDIology.
Ok Rodolpho the Clockmaker's BACKSTORY: he is a Wartime Friend of Captain Correli, he saved his life on the landing of sicily, and he was one of the first African American Clock makers in post war Italy. He helped use clocks to ward off post war italian fascism and stayed to help the Italians train with new American industrial clockmaking machinery given to Italy during teh marshal plan.
Brilliant. I can dig it.
@fleetwoodvo8673 his book, the tourbillon mechanized infantry, was one of the popes favorite books to read while drinking his favorite brand of coca wine. Of course Greece being a powerful Nato ally surrounded by the Warsaw pact, this event almost didn't happen as the presidential pod was seen as a threat by the soviets who were allowed to place their own pod for kruschev in kaliningrad
It's been 5 years and this is STILL one of my all time favorite one offs AS helped make!
Wasn't surprised one bit when I saw Scott Gairdner (sex offender shuffle, Scott meets Family Circus) was involved making it.
Never take this video down!
135 people couldn't handle how synthsational this is.
Haha
They must be “under the synthfluence” 🥲
To the man, or woman who created this regal masterpiece: I give you full permission to marry my future child.
Anthony Jamie even if he/she is 80years?? You're sick...
thanks, that was me. I'll take your child now
They already did. In the futurepast...
That would be Bug Mane
@@luke.hillis7634 i bet he can already smell the puddy sauce. skittle skaddle
I wonder of Georgio, Wendy or Vangelis saw this masterpiece.
Wendy would get a kick out of I'm sure
I remember seeing a screenshot of Vangelis sharing the video link before.
@@em4151 really?
@@LadyLuck-rd5vi Wendy is the least likely to have appreciated it. She has an actual history of suing people for parody.
Giorgio saw it and loved it
Watching in 144p
For the experience
Thank you. Much better
😅
I've set this as the home page in my browser.
And thus, I was born 4 months after this concert took place when the energy dissipated and impregnated the Earth and I sprouted forth like a plant worshipping the sun, but fed by moonlight as opposed to the sun. Thank you, Lords of Synth, for bringing my essence into existence with your amazing performance.
Hmmmm...
Rare positive vibe for Adult Swim. Many thanks to the Smeck Group for sponsoring Earth’s salvation.
I know this was all a parody and a tribute to Vangelis, Georgio Moroder and Wendy Carlos. But I would love to see something like this for our contemporary synth artists like Carpenter Brut, Magic Sword and Perturbator.
I'd love to see Ulrich Schnauss in those also :P
I loved Xangelix on his classic score to Dogsleds Of Smoke.
The music that starts after Zoroger takes the creative drug is amazing. 4:50
+Svett Menneske 70s synth is a treasure trove - even in trying to mock it they can't help but make beautiful music.
google "Xandré Morgio Zoroger's Song". You will find something nice on soundcloud :)
@@wx45art Haha, awesome! Thank you for this :D
This is the greatest synth video that I was 7 years late to. Thanks algorithm.
Original tribute to original synthwave. An 80's mark. This is so incredible. Thirty years later we all still love synthwave. And nowadays synthwavers are as great as those from the beggining
Many great niblets for us synth nerds, but my favorite is the Zyklus MIDI reference. Truly a deep cut
this is 100% accurate
my life had negligible meaning until my exposure to this
I legit cry everytime they get together, it's just that satisfying
synthtacular
What a little treasure here. You guys at Williams never cease to amaze even well over a decade later.
RIP Vangelis
As time marches on towards my death like an unstoppable assassin in the night I come to realize that this is the greatest video ever made.
blessing on PANOS THE WONDER CHILD... Phenomenal
I'm still in the market for a Zorg Polyprotosynclavatronulator.
+Sound Author You just can't beat those LFO's. And the 16-note polyphony? Forget about it. Really wish Zorg made polyprotosynclavs like they used to.
Good luck finding a tech for that.
I always thought the Zorg triple lowpass RC fliter was inferior. Unless you are doing a very full, open filter type sound with a fast amp attack you are going to hear a lot of clicking.
I got a no-pass filter that is pretty quiet to be discrete analog. @@jonnie2bad
Even now, after watching this well over a dozen times, this video will never not be hilarious to me.
As expected when you have three talented musicians in a battle against each other
they ultimately end up playing together..
you must have missed the Steve vai/ joe satriani/ yngwie malmsteen tour....
@@dagonvaldez2878 Yes, I didn't bother to see those but I have seen Steve Vai perform with Zappa (and Son of Zappa) on many occasions. I also did see Joe Satriani and Stu Hamm was with him. I never did care for the music that Malmsteen has done but I have to admit it's very virtuostic and quite entertaining to watch.
Is it normal if this was one of the most majestic things I saw in my entire life ?
*_I didn't know synths played instruments._*
+DeathSeekerism BLAME THE INSTITUTE!!
Damn Synths
In this case it was short for synthtestants.
Howard at it again, no doubt
howHoward at it again, no doubt.
One of my all time favorite videos.
RIP Vangelis. Thank you for saving us from Haley’s Comet.
I can't decide what's better, this video, or reading people nerd out about synth in the comments :)
My dream job would be helping to storyboard and design bits like this
I totally feel you man, I have always dreamed of a career in the film industry (creative type) and watching this all I can think about is how much fun this must have been. For everyone included too, the actors, editors, camera operators. I doubt a single person didn't enjoy working on this. I envy the people that can get up every day and work on shit like this. If you are looking AS or whoever makes these, I'm here ;^)
Man i've seen this at least 30 times and it still gets better every time
Pure genius whoever made this. 80's video editing perfection and obviously very familiar with vintage synthesizers from their poking-fun terminology.