you both should produce a concept album with all your great synths, which have a great history...Michael Jackson, Jerry Goldsmith, movie soundtracks etc.
Yes, it really lends itself to a multitude of possible melodic lines of accompaniment :) But maybe a shame that the actual Moog in question sounds a little buried?
@@zaremol2779I got major “Giorgio by Moroder” by Daft Punk vibes when the hard part of the jam kicked in myself. Definitely hear the Justice vibes though too though, either way it’s a major French house vibe and I’m loving it :)
He had a synth with no memory because he had to, not necessarily because he wanted to. I remember those days, it was a lot of work and sometimes frustration especially while composing and recording. 😄
It’s easy for us to romanticize at this remove but you have to remember that these guys were just trying to make a living. The tools were tools to get the job done. If something smaller, lighter, easier to use came along, they would switch to that in a heartbeat.
@@jdrukman i remember one time in particular I made a sound on my MS10 that I could never recreate again for some reason, and I never got to use it on any recording. I made a little chart and everything!
This video serves as a perfect proof of how electronic music has evolved using the same instruments. Tastes and styles may change, but the instruments can keep up with us. In short, you and Marinelli are making the case for why vintage pieces will continue to belong in modern productions.
It's unreal for me to comprehend there are people like Anthony, Mark and you who love vintage analog synthesizers so much and have pure, indestructible heart !. I was born in 1982 in ex Yugoslavia and my earliest memories are deeply connected with analog synthesizers and music and sounds it created . I was 2 years old when my parents got the "Merge" album by artist Laza Ristovski on tape cassette and my mom used to say I was so hypnotized by this music and synthesizers that I disappeared in that world :). Highlight for me was a track called" Beyond the Horizon" . Such a beautiful piece and that minimoog....... . From that moment I feel the enormous gratitude to people who built synthesizers, love them and use them and I do my best to learn about them .Ive learned about Plantasia about 10 years ago by accident (actually I was looking for L'aventure les plantes by Joël Fajerman ) . It's great album , almost has Tomita feel about it . You- Alex are indeed the beacon of light in this dark and troubled times . God bless you!
The second one on the list, ordered by the Beatles, was soon returned and bought by the German musician and conductor Eberhard Schoener, who took it as the first synthesizer to Germany. Recently it was selled to the Deutsches Museum in München. (Interview with Eberhard Schoener here on YT)
Thanks to everyone involved in this, especially you, Alex, for telling the story in your own inimitable way. What a beautiful synth, and the jam at the end was spectacular.
Lovely video. The bit with the noise source through the fixed filter bank made me think immediately of "Tillicum," a piece by the Canadian band Syrinx, which opens with a similar sound. It was written as the theme for Here Come The '70s, a TV series that first began airing on the CTV television network in Canada in September of 1970. (It supposedly aired in some international markets as Towards the Year 2000.) Released as a single "Tillicum" made it into the bottom of the Canadian Top 40 in June of 1971, a year before Hot Butter's version of "Popcorn" became an international hit. John Mills-Cockell, Syrinx's keyboardist, may have been the first Canadian musician to perform live with a Moog as member of the multimedia performance group Intersystems in 1968. Unfortunately his Moog II modular was destroyed in a recording studio fire while Syrinx was recording their second album. He replaced it with an ARP 2500. And while I'm rambling I'll mention another example of the influence of The Secret Life of Plants, an episode of the science fiction series Space: 1999, "The Troubled Spirit." When an attempt to communicate with plants psychically goes wrong the crew of Moonbase Alpha is menaced by a man's ghost before he dies. The episode includes a Coral Electric Sitar performance by prolific session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who appears in the opening of the episode dressed as a Moonbase Alpha crewman giving a performance of the piece.
I've started playing synths for "the sounds" and now I keep playing them to keep the legacy alive. Thanks Alex and Anthony to teach us this instrument's history through interviews, sawtooth waves and filters ♥️♥️♥️
Thank you so much for creating this video, Alex, Anthony, & team. I've been fascinated with Mort's work since I was a kid. The Black Mass record was given to me by a close friend who told me his father used to play it for their home-brewed haunted barn for Halloween decades ago. When he gave me the record, he said "Get this evil shit out of my house!" I had no idea how it would change my life and musical direction. The original copy of that album was destroyed in a house fire which took me years to replace it back then and it wasn't cheap. While much of Mort's synth works are obviously kooky and fun, some of it is sincerely groundbreaking, unique, and even scary. It's great to see his work getting the attention of younger generations and I hope it continues to inspire others as it has me.
What a cool history lesson. I had no idea, that when I was 5 years old watching the moon landing with my family on our B&W TV in the rec room , I was subconciously starting my love of synthesizers. Awesome to know.
I wake up every morning to the first notes of Plantasia, and for the last 7 years it has never failed to make me smile. If I don't wake up after that, my second alarm is Morricone's "The extasy of gold". That does the trick.
I am here for Mort Garson and Plantasia becoming popular. I've been a fan for quite a while. I remember when all we could do was download vinyl rips of all of the albums. The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds was the first album I downloaded on Napster. Bit by bit, I learned more about the composer behind it, and his extended catalog. Among those albums, Plantasia stood out. (The soundtrack album for Didn't You Hear was also noteworthy.) I always thought this was a cool album, and I'm glad other people are catching on to it. You haven't quite got the film gate effect right. Rather than having the outer edges of the frame and then having the image resume, we should see the top of the previous frame on the bottom, and the bottom of the next frame on the top. I saw that Plantasia event. I didn't realize it was Garson's synthesizer. It certainly wasn't his style of music they played at the event. Mort Garson wasn't about ambient washes and nothing else. He was about melodic compositions.
I was brought up with The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds in the 70's. And I loved it ever since.But for decades there was next to no info on Garson to be found, and nobody knew the record. Glad to see it's changing!
Massive thanks to you bro, for yet another contribution to this wonderful field. This will surely inspire the next generation to keep the fire burning.
What a dream collab, the two most heavyweight synth TH-camrs in the same video playing an awesome finale! Loved those Eye-of-the-Tiger style power chords, didnt expect that! 💯❤💯
Fantastic! I'm sitting here, watching the video, and my wife says she doesn't want to continue doing what she was doing because the sounds she's hearing are so beautiful. That golden age Moog modular sound has a way of doing that to you. A perfect instrument then AND now.
That's why this channel is sooo good, Alex not only brings good music but he put the effort to show the history of such unique equipment like this one. The final jam was outstanding and I hope for more collaborations in the future. A+
It's so great that you and Anthony provide the connection to the past. I love both of your channels. The jam at the end was awesome, and Anthony pulling the pin on the last beat was super cool.
~16:15 Haha, that's kinda cool. Making it even more of an event. Also, ngl, it's kinda cool that Mort would just be rocking a pentagram necklace back then. A bit ballsy for the time.
Thanks for this lovely video and insight of Mort Garson’s life! I actually bought the reissue vinyl of Plantasia when I visited LA in 2019. Also, wow, that cool ending track you guys made! ❤️
It fills my heart with such warm delight that there are still people so passionate about the gear and history of that era of sonic miracles. Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing video! ❤
I’m getting some major “Giorgio by Moroder” by Daft Punk vibes when that jam at the end kicks in, such an insanely cool collab to wrap up this legendary synth story!
WOW lol, was absolutely loving the video then that end jam just knocked my socks off. That electric guitar sounds so good on top of the Moog ! You and @anthonymarinellimusic should make something together, and get a half decent mix engineer xD
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Got a chance to learn from the master, thank you and love to you Alex!
you both should produce a concept album with all your great synths, which have a great history...Michael Jackson, Jerry Goldsmith, movie soundtracks etc.
Thank you! So pleased we did this.
When you come to sell this I think I can scrape together $900.
Always a pleasure to hear from you, music and history-wise 👌👌👌
❤
That ending jam... That's how it's done, people.
Yes, it really lends itself to a multitude of possible melodic lines of accompaniment :) But maybe a shame that the actual Moog in question sounds a little buried?
It sounds like a Justice song if Justice released their first album in 1987 instead of 2007
It sounded Awesome.
@@zaremol2779I got major “Giorgio by Moroder” by Daft Punk vibes when the hard part of the jam kicked in myself.
Definitely hear the Justice vibes though too though, either way it’s a major French house vibe and I’m loving it :)
This can and SHOULD be a new genre....
This endsong is a completely awesome sounding piece of music! 💚
Totally epic!
Just make an album already... That last track was fire. Great colab!
Cannot agree more :) Great stuff Alex!
I vote for a twelve album set. :)
Adore the fact he's running a priceless 70s Moog through a DS-1 at the end.
Beautiful
We chatted about how that would get comments. 😂
Haha, "that old thing? It was too big, and my daughter bought me a Casio!" killed me. Clearly very un-sentimental :)
That was brilliant, yeah. 😂
He had a synth with no memory because he had to, not necessarily because he wanted to. I remember those days, it was a lot of work and sometimes frustration especially while composing and recording. 😄
It’s easy for us to romanticize at this remove but you have to remember that these guys were just trying to make a living. The tools were tools to get the job done. If something smaller, lighter, easier to use came along, they would switch to that in a heartbeat.
@@jdrukman i remember one time in particular I made a sound on my MS10 that I could never recreate again for some reason, and I never got to use it on any recording. I made a little chart and everything!
@@InSurrealtime That's why you bought legal pads in bulk...
Mort’s work is what got me into synthesizers. THANK YOU a hundred times for covering this important chapter of synth history ❤
Alex AND Anthony! The best synth history guys 🙌
Mister Alex , Mr. Marinelli, thank you sooo much! Your channel is a firestarter for a young generation. I recommend it to all my students
@@marcoaraujo2817 Cheers! Hopefully your students can all become synth nuts. 😀
This video serves as a perfect proof of how electronic music has evolved using the same instruments. Tastes and styles may change, but the instruments can keep up with us. In short, you and Marinelli are making the case for why vintage pieces will continue to belong in modern productions.
Cheers. Yeah, I guess these instruments just fundamentally sound great and are endlessly useful, regardless of the decade or the genre.
It's unreal for me to comprehend there are people like Anthony, Mark and you who love vintage analog synthesizers so much and have pure, indestructible heart !. I was born in 1982 in ex Yugoslavia and my earliest memories are deeply connected with analog synthesizers and music and sounds it created . I was 2 years old when my parents got the "Merge" album by artist Laza Ristovski on tape cassette and my mom used to say I was so hypnotized by this music and synthesizers that I disappeared in that world :). Highlight for me was a track called" Beyond the Horizon" . Such a beautiful piece and that minimoog....... . From that moment I feel the enormous gratitude to people who built synthesizers, love them and use them and I do my best to learn about them .Ive learned about Plantasia about 10 years ago by accident (actually I was looking for L'aventure les plantes by Joël Fajerman ) . It's great album , almost has Tomita feel about it . You- Alex are indeed the beacon of light in this dark and troubled times . God bless you!
That last jam... Somewhere up above Bob Moog is feeling that and smiling.
Ah. Thank you!
The second one on the list, ordered by the Beatles, was soon returned and bought by the German musician and conductor Eberhard Schoener, who took it as the first synthesizer to Germany. Recently it was selled to the Deutsches Museum in München. (Interview with Eberhard Schoener here on YT)
Oh that's brilliant info, thank you!
Superb finale! I skipped back at least five times to hear something different each whip-around. Congratulations!
Best ending track by far Alex. Great video. Thanks for your efforts in putting this together.
Cheers! Was fun to do.
I wish I could give one thumbs up for the story and a second for the musical collaborations between you and Anthony. What a great video!
So awesome for you and Anthony to work together!
Cheers! Yeah, so pleased we did this. I'm sure we'll do other collabs.
What an incredible sound
What a heartwarming documentary. I love that the instrument seemingly brought everyone who owned it good fortune and joy
ahhh, that Recycler mention flashed me back...the SoCal source of every musician's dreams back then, nice.
I bet! I remember the days of catalogues and 2nd hand listings. Simpler times.
Thanks to everyone involved in this, especially you, Alex, for telling the story in your own inimitable way. What a beautiful synth, and the jam at the end was spectacular.
Great documentary Alex! Brilliant song at the end. WOW!
Lovely video.
The bit with the noise source through the fixed filter bank made me think immediately of "Tillicum," a piece by the Canadian band Syrinx, which opens with a similar sound. It was written as the theme for Here Come The '70s, a TV series that first began airing on the CTV television network in Canada in September of 1970. (It supposedly aired in some international markets as Towards the Year 2000.) Released as a single "Tillicum" made it into the bottom of the Canadian Top 40 in June of 1971, a year before Hot Butter's version of "Popcorn" became an international hit.
John Mills-Cockell, Syrinx's keyboardist, may have been the first Canadian musician to perform live with a Moog as member of the multimedia performance group Intersystems in 1968. Unfortunately his Moog II modular was destroyed in a recording studio fire while Syrinx was recording their second album. He replaced it with an ARP 2500.
And while I'm rambling I'll mention another example of the influence of The Secret Life of Plants, an episode of the science fiction series Space: 1999, "The Troubled Spirit." When an attempt to communicate with plants psychically goes wrong the crew of Moonbase Alpha is menaced by a man's ghost before he dies. The episode includes a Coral Electric Sitar performance by prolific session guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, who appears in the opening of the episode dressed as a Moonbase Alpha crewman giving a performance of the piece.
this is my kind of comment!
Slay
Awesome- thanks for this!
Really a great collaboration and a fascinating bit of musical history. Thank you both!
That outro was absolutely fantastic! You guys are so great.
The track 'Tarot' on Ataraxia is ridiculously ahead of its time for 1975
Fantastic collaboration! Love both your channels, hope to see more this kind of thing. 😁 Smiles for miles...
That piece of music at the end was absolutely frickin' amazing...
Collab from two of my favorite YT channels! 🥳
Superinteresting video, ONCE AGAIN, OF COURSE.
These music story videos garnished with personalities and groovy sounds are simply your superpower.
I've started playing synths for "the sounds" and now I keep playing them to keep the legacy alive.
Thanks Alex and Anthony to teach us this instrument's history through interviews, sawtooth waves and filters ♥️♥️♥️
An upcoming Alex Ball video is always something to be excited about 🎉
My plants love this album. Can’t wait.
Set them up to watch the premier.
Cringe BS
Wow!!!! That end track is fantastic. You two must make an album together! And a very interesting story about that Moog Modular!
Thank you so much for creating this video, Alex, Anthony, & team. I've been fascinated with Mort's work since I was a kid. The Black Mass record was given to me by a close friend who told me his father used to play it for their home-brewed haunted barn for Halloween decades ago. When he gave me the record, he said "Get this evil shit out of my house!" I had no idea how it would change my life and musical direction. The original copy of that album was destroyed in a house fire which took me years to replace it back then and it wasn't cheap. While much of Mort's synth works are obviously kooky and fun, some of it is sincerely groundbreaking, unique, and even scary. It's great to see his work getting the attention of younger generations and I hope it continues to inspire others as it has me.
Really loved this inside look - wonderful instrument(s) and musician
What a cool history lesson. I had no idea, that when I was 5 years old watching the moon landing with my family on our B&W TV in the rec room , I was subconciously starting my love of synthesizers. Awesome to know.
This video is such a treasure, thank you so much for making it.
Genuinely can’t wait for this. This album changed my entire perception of electronic music.
I wake up every morning to the first notes of Plantasia, and for the last 7 years it has never failed to make me smile.
If I don't wake up after that, my second alarm is Morricone's "The extasy of gold". That does the trick.
Also, this is the best crossover episode.
this video absolutely rules wowowow thank you so much for making this, rip mort!!
Hello Alex: You have managed to combine two things which are of endless fascination to me, synths and the Apollo missions. Thank you.
Synths and space, perfect combo.
song at the end of video is MASTERPIECE!!!!
I am here for Mort Garson and Plantasia becoming popular. I've been a fan for quite a while. I remember when all we could do was download vinyl rips of all of the albums. The Zodiac - Cosmic Sounds was the first album I downloaded on Napster. Bit by bit, I learned more about the composer behind it, and his extended catalog. Among those albums, Plantasia stood out. (The soundtrack album for Didn't You Hear was also noteworthy.) I always thought this was a cool album, and I'm glad other people are catching on to it.
You haven't quite got the film gate effect right. Rather than having the outer edges of the frame and then having the image resume, we should see the top of the previous frame on the bottom, and the bottom of the next frame on the top.
I saw that Plantasia event. I didn't realize it was Garson's synthesizer. It certainly wasn't his style of music they played at the event. Mort Garson wasn't about ambient washes and nothing else. He was about melodic compositions.
That was great, thanks.
Would love to see a doc about the rudimentary sampling technology used on The Secret Life of Plants.
Great story to an incredible instrument. Thanks as always for your talent and content.
I was brought up with The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds in the 70's. And I loved it ever since.But for decades there was next to no info on Garson to be found, and nobody knew the record. Glad to see it's changing!
It never occurred to me that two of my favorite synth channels would collaborate across the pond. What a joy this video is!
Massive thanks to you bro, for yet another contribution to this wonderful field. This will surely inspire the next generation to keep the fire burning.
What a dream collab, the two most heavyweight synth TH-camrs in the same video playing an awesome finale! Loved those Eye-of-the-Tiger style power chords, didnt expect that! 💯❤💯
Holy Toledo, the jam at the end was EPIC. Amazng episode. Bravo!
An epic convergence of fantastic proportions. Thanks so much.
Absolute banger outro piece.
Fantastic! I'm sitting here, watching the video, and my wife says she doesn't want to continue doing what she was doing because the sounds she's hearing are so beautiful. That golden age Moog modular sound has a way of doing that to you. A perfect instrument then AND now.
This is a whole ass documentary just on yt. Underrated doesn't even begin to describe this. Amazing. 👍
That's why this channel is sooo good, Alex not only brings good music but he put the effort to show the history of such unique equipment like this one. The final jam was outstanding and I hope for more collaborations in the future. A+
Thank you!
It's so great that you and Anthony provide the connection to the past. I love both of your channels. The jam at the end was awesome, and Anthony pulling the pin on the last beat was super cool.
Excellent as always and great collaboration with the great Anthony Marinelli
~16:15 Haha, that's kinda cool. Making it even more of an event.
Also, ngl, it's kinda cool that Mort would just be rocking a pentagram necklace back then. A bit ballsy for the time.
Thanks for this lovely video and insight of Mort Garson’s life! I actually bought the reissue vinyl of Plantasia when I visited LA in 2019. Also, wow, that cool ending track you guys made! ❤️
Hey Michael. Yeah, a great little album. A prolific composer, for sure.
This video's a keeper!! Lovely playing and sounds throughout
beautiful history and sick jam at the end! thank you for making my Friday night inspiration before I switch on my spaceship!
Really looking forward to this!
It fills my heart with such warm delight that there are still people so passionate about the gear and history of that era of sonic miracles.
Thank you SO MUCH for that amazing video! ❤
Woo - I only know Ataraxia from The Adventure Zone so looking forward to seeing what Alex has in store for us!
Level+1 on the production of this one, Alex! Informative and inspiring. Great stuff!
I follow Anthony's channel, he knows synths like old friends
He's been at it since before I was born, yeah!
Fantastic stuff, Alex. Thank you so much diggin into the deeps of history, technology, trivia and application of electronic intruments.
This is amazing. Such extreme history.... and that jam at the end... wow :D
Nice one guys. Great history, great music. Couldn’t ask for more.
Wow. What a story he’s got. Killer jam at the end too. Great work on this Alex.
Cheers Jim!
Thank you! Great doc!
This should be interesting. Somehow I only discovered this album in the past year, and it's great.
Superb! Up there with the best synth videos on YT, fascinating and moving story
Thanks! Really enjoyed making this one.
Thank you for an amazing educational, life fulfilling video.
Wonderful!! And that ending track Fn rocks man!!! Fantastic
Fascinating story - love how you two managed to collaborate across the world to produce such an amazing jam at the end.
15:20 Mort sounded and looked fun. RIP.
Yeah, he really did.
@@AlexBallMusic that was a touching little jingle too
@@colinstu Cheers. I felt a little bit like I knew him when I wrote that. It was a Moog, naturally.
I really enjoy these little documentaries. It's funny how many weird things are connected. Well done fren.
Such a beautiful story, thanks for sharing all this good stuff
A great and exciting musical passage. Thanks very much...
The end piece of music is an absolute banger. Full points gentleman.
so happy this video exists - thank you!
I’m getting some major “Giorgio by Moroder” by Daft Punk vibes when that jam at the end kicks in, such an insanely cool collab to wrap up this legendary synth story!
Excellent first collab!!! Been waiting on this one for a while. Great jam too!!!!
Fantastic collaboration, and what a mind-blowing synth!
This is very informative and a wonderful story, now told. Tears in my eyes.
WOW lol, was absolutely loving the video then that end jam just knocked my socks off.
That electric guitar sounds so good on top of the Moog !
You and @anthonymarinellimusic should make something together, and get a half decent mix engineer xD
Great story, Alex. Thanks for passing on this bit of Moog history. And Anthony, thanks for keeping that beast alive.
Just amazing. Especially the end song. Thank you :)
Excellent. Well done.
Excellent documentary and great jam at the end! 👌🥰👍
Such a pearl from the past en what a great rerecording of the song, well done Alex and Anthony!
Cheers JP!
3:38 unexpected Alice’s Restaurant cameo.
Helluva banger of a piece at the end! I think it's one of your finest, up there with Afterglow as far as I'm concerned!
Yo! Cheers, we decided to go full Moog. Was a lot of fun.
Truly awesome! 🤩✨🌱🪴🌜🪐🎹🎛️🎚️
Very Most Excellent ~ Thank you ✨💚
A great documentary, and a musical collab with the wizard who programmed the synth sounds in "Thriller"? This video couldn't get any better!
such a beautiful story, and what a JAM at the end! nice!
20:48 The collaboration we've all been waiting for!