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“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

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Superbooth 2025: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happened

Knob tweakers, assemble!

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"True to the Moog legacy and innovative spirit of Dr. Robert Moog": Moog unveils new $899 analogue monosynth, Messenger

Superbooth 25: With wavefolding oscillators and a "next-generation" ladder filter, Moog says Messenger honours the company’s heritage while exploring "the future of analogue synthesis"

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“Wendy Carlos is able to build precisely the sound that she wants”: Watch synth pioneer Wendy Carlos in the studio, working Moog magic back in 1989

Footage from a UK BBC documentary show’s Carlos at the top of her game, making the transition from analogue to digital

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7 top test tracks that celebrate the iconic Moog synthesizer

Featuring The Beatles, Donna Summer, Parliament and more

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“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

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“I was going to buy a Minimoog because Keith Emerson had one. I was in the store and I was trying it out and I hear a voice behind me say ‘you don’t want that’”: Why Foreigner’s Al Greenwood said no to the Minimoog and bought a little-known synth instead

“It played two notes at a time, which was unbelievable - to be able to play almost a chord with it - and it had four oscillators instead of three”

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"In reality, it looked... odd, with its spare front-panel occupied almost entirely by graphics and sporting two vertically stacked wheels on the left edge": 12 synths that should have been classics, but weren’t

Inventive and inspiring, but doomed to fail. These are the often-innovative electronic instruments never received the love they deserved

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15 of the greatest synth icons ever: Carlos, Hancock, Jarre and more

Legends one and all, we pick the synthesizer's greatest exponents. In order of true greatness…

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“Every week, every month, I was doing something new… but fighting Martians has become a lifestyle for me”: Jeff Wayne on waging the relentless War Of The Worlds

Composer of prog’s greatest conceptual album – among many, many overshadowed works – recalls cutting the invaders’ language in half, casting Phil Lynott as a vicar and scraping his wife’s best pots for a tension-building sound effect

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"It should eventually end up in a museum": The true story behind Hans Zimmer and his giant Moog is even more extraordinary than the original photo of them together, and it turns out the monster modular could be the most important synth ever made

The real story is about who owned the synth originally (and that we've unearthed some more cracking shots of it)

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"George Martin knew Robert Moog, and asked him to come to Abbey Road and show us this Moog thing": Paul McCartney on the synth used on the final Beatles album and how its 'noise' created tension in the band

Did the Moog synth speed up the demise of the Beatles?

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East Coast vs West Coast synthesis: what's the difference?

For years, these two types of synthesis have offered distinct sonic experiences. But what are the differences and advantages of each?

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How the hunt for a lost Moog in India unearthed a groundbreaking collection of '60s electronic music that was miles ahead of its time: "It blew everything wide open"

Artist and author Paul Purgas shines a light on an archive of visionary sounds recorded during a radical period of experimentation at Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design

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Dave Smith: the synth genius who made pop’s instruments work in harmony

Smith, who died this week aged 72, changed the course of music history by championing unity and collaboration, while his synths lit up Madonna, Radiohead and more

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