J. Christopher Arrison on how the Moog came to represent a new sound of evil for the movies: "This ingenious re-purposing of classical themes through multi-layered analog synthesizers remains as powerful today as it did over four decades years ago. But like Kubrick's brutal and graphic imagery, [Wendy] Carlos' contribution to electronic music was not without controversy." [Cultureramp via Tettix]
Analog Ultra-Violence
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I'm going to fill this discount 1TB cloud storage with cat pictures and nobody can stop me
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