San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 Vol 1

San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 documents a missing link in the history of electronic music, as well as the little-known
moment when psychedelic music went electronic. In 1968, Bay Area native Doug McKechnie got hold of one the very first modular Moog synthesizers ever made and began finding his own way to play it. Soon, he was hauling the finicky instrument around to perform improvised concerts at colleges and ballrooms, as well as an ill-fated appearance on the bill at Altamont. Many of the performances were recorded, and the surviving tapes—never before released—capture a free-flowing, transportive sound that fills
in the gap between the austere mid-century academic avant garde and the expansive cosmic suites of Tangerine Dream
and the rest of the Berlin School in the ’70s. This is not another corny old Moog record. San Francisco Moog sounds as fresh as anything by today’s analogsynth heads while bringing to life a lost moment in the development of the music.