Pictures
I don't want to just recreate the work other people have already done collecting pictures of classic modulars, so if you want these, why not go over to Synthfool and Music Machines or Klaus Schulze's page here.
What I'm trying to collect here is Album cover art featuring Modular Synthesizers, along with a few classic pictures of artists and their modular synths. If you have any related pictures you'd like to send me, let know!
Many of these pictures are thumbnails with links to bigger better quality versions of the same pictures. Some of them are really worth a look !
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Front cover of Wendy Carlos Seminal Switched on Bach album. (1968) |
Front cover of 'Switched on Bach II' (1974) |
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Detail from front cover of 'The Well-Tempered Synthesizer' (1969)
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'The Moog Strikes Bach by Hans Wurman. (1969) | |
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Gershon Kingsley's 'Music To Moog By'. (1969) |
From the back cover of 'Music to Moog By'. |
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Gershon Kingsley's 'First Moog Quartet'. Read more about Kingsley here. |
Hugo Montenegro's Moog Power Album. (1969) |
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Cover to Klaus Wunderlich's Sound2000 Album. (1973) |
Detail of Back Cover of Sound2000 by Klaus Wunderlich |
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Front Cover of Klaus Wunderlich's URALTEDELSCHNULZEN SYNTHESIZERGAGS Album. (1974) |
Front cover of Moog Groove by The Electronic Concept Orchestra. |
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'Everything you always wanted to hear on the Moog' by Andrew Kazdin and Thomas Z. Shepard |
The Age of Electronicus by Dick Hyman (1969) (Gatefold sleeve). |
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Country Moog! |
Switched on Santa! |
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Moogie Woogie by The Zeet Band. |
Go-Moog ! by Elektrik Cokernut. |
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No modulars in sight, but still a classic. Back cover of Herbie Hancock's 'Sunlight' album (1978) and the seperate key that came with it. All albums should come with such informative material. |
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Front cover of Herbie Hancock's 'Monster' album. (1980). |
Detail from Front cover of Herbie Hancock's Thrust Album (1974) |
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Herbie Hancock & Patrick Gleeson hard at work with an Emu Modular in Gleeson's Studio |
Toto's Steve Porcaro and his Polyfusion Modular system - 'Damius' |
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Detail of front cover of Tangerine Dream's live album LOGOS. (1982) |
Details from back cover of LOGOS. |
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These 3 are from the poster that came with the Klaus Schulze ...Live... Album (1980). There are loads of other fantastic pictures on his site.
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| Inside cover from another Klaus Schulze album, Audentity (1983). | ||
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Isao Tomita's Sound Creature. (1977) |
Back cover of 'Sound Creature. |
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Sound Creature 2. |
Isao Tomita's 'Different Dimensions' (Best of) (1977) |
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| Isao Tomita's 'The Newest Sound of Debussy' (1974) | Back cover from 'The Newest Sound of Debussy' | |
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| Isao Tomita's Firebird (1975). | Back cover of Firebird. | |
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Detail from the back cover of Firebird. Click here to see the detailed equipment list provided on the back cover of the album.
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Tomita in the Studio. |
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Front Cover of StereoLab's 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet album |
Back cover to same. |
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| Who needs MIDI when you can just interface directly with your keyboards like this? This image of Kraftwerk is from 'The Robots Remix'. |
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No modulars that I can see, but I've included these photos because this is my mind's eye picture of what it looks like inside my virtual Pulsar studio. Without the Afghan coat and other horrible fashion items, of course. Thanks to Rod Burgess for these truly awesome photos of Rick Wakeman! |
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Links to Album archives
Most of the pictures on this page have come from my own collection. However I can seriously reccomend a look through the following sites if you're at all interested in the album art of yesteryear. There are some real gems throughout these pages.
Firstly there's MoogWorld - not necessarily the most comprehensive site, but it does stream Moog music 24 hours a day!
A bachelor's guide to music by Pearmania (Check out the Moog power page)
Show and Tell Music (Particularly the Electronic Pop page)
Retroplanet (Particularly the Album Art section)
The Images page at 317x.com
The Moog pages at VinylVulture.