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29 mentions in 16 episodes.

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10:07 · Minimoog · named · high confidence
“This sound is a Minimoog, but in a talkbox. And here I put the bassline on my Minimoog.”
The signature opening hook of Sexy Boy is a Minimoog bassline pushed through a talkbox.
1:13:11 · Minimoog · named · high confidence
“The only difference is that I play the bass with the Minimoog, and I didn't program the envelope from the filter, I played it live.”
On Kelly Watch the Stars the bassline is a Minimoog with the filter envelope hand-played note by note rather than programmed.
1:50:02 · Minimoog · named · high confidence
“You need a Minimoog because this is the basis. This is what Kraftwerk used, and this is a mono synth. If you have one, you have to have this one.”
He calls the Minimoog the essential mono synth, the foundation of his sound and of Kraftwerk's.

Bleachers

10:51 · Moog (unspecified model) · named · medium confidence
“In the chorus, start to bring in a Moog, which I'm just putting a tremolator on.”
A Moog synth plays the pulsing low-end line in the choruses of Jesus Is Dead.
49:32 · Minimoog Model D · named · medium confidence
“finding bits that could just throw it off a little bit and get on the Moog with some delay... that's just a Moog with delay”
Moog noise and delayed bits used as 'personality' tracks to loosen the gridded arrangement.
51:05 · Minimoog Model D · named · high confidence
“right there you have noise from Model D Moog... you have a direct ovation, you have baritone guitars”
Model D noise identified as part of the 'orchestra warming up' collage of vibe tracks.

Charli XCX

10:53 · Minimoog · implied · medium confidence
“the synths are just what we had there. It's like a Moog and like a PPG Wave and a few things like that”
AG Cook lists the Moog (later confirmed as a Minimoog) as one of only a couple of synths available in the Paris studio.
1:31:58 · Minimoog · named · high confidence
“It's like one Minimoog and one MS-20”
The synth layers in the second heavy drop of 'rock music' are a Minimoog plus an MS-20, and the Minimoog is later named as essential kit.

IDLES

1:14:02 · Moogerfooger · named · high confidence
“it's just a load of different effects, and then there's noise generators, there's a lot of Moogerfooger stuff on it”
Moogerfooger pedals are a core part of Bowen's custom 'Crawler Machine' effects rig used on drums, bass and vocals.

Joy Anon

44:42 · Matriarch · named · medium confidence
“Chords were on one of those synths... I think it was Matriarch... This was through the Matriarch and his modular rack”
Collaborator Tommy Champion played the chord parts on a Moog Matriarch routed through his modular rack, later brought on stage at the Jazz Café shows.

Kae Tempest

1:14:23 · Voyager · named · high confidence
“And then in the verses, we added a Moog Voyager, which is a pretty deep sounding bass.”
Moog Voyager provides the deep verse bass on 'Forever'.

Kasabian

50:52 · Moogerfooger · named · high confidence
“It's just got a little bit of the Moogerfooger delay. I use that a lot. Don't really use loads of plugins, use the same ones.”
The chorus guitar of 'Coming Back to Me Good' was recorded direct with Moogerfooger delay, a unit Serge says he reaches for constantly.

Lorde

26:14 · Moog Rogue · named · high confidence
“It was just a Moog Rogue sub bass, super simple... that's a little distortion sidechaining a bit to the kick”
The Moog Rogue provides the sub bass and one-note chord outlines on Favourite Daughter.
28:06 · Moog Rogue · named · high confidence
“the Moog Rogue. That's like my favourite synth. It's like $800 and it's the best Moog synth”
Jimmy Stack praises the cheap monophonic Moog Rogue as his favourite synth on the record.
28:13 · Minimoog · named · medium confidence
“it was basically just that and Polysix and a Minimoog kind of making up most of the harmonic info”
Minimoog is one of three synths carrying the harmonic content of Favourite Daughter.
1:12:26 · Moog Rogue · implied · medium confidence
“it's just a Moog again through a guitar amp. And some EQ... it's really alive”
The Grown Woman bass is a Moog synth re-amped through a guitar amp for live circuitry character.
1:43:07 · Moog Rogue · named · high confidence
“I would probably say Moog Rogue... it's all contained in this $900 on Craigslist”
Jimmy Stack picks the Moog Rogue as his desert-island piece of gear for the album.

Maribou State

1:12:53 · Moog delay pedal · named · medium confidence
“we put it through a Moog delay pedal and then a spring reverb, the 555 Space Echo”
Holly Walker's Other Side vocal was processed simply through a Moog delay pedal rather than plugin chains.
1:16:07 · Matriarch · named · high confidence
“we've got a Moog Matriarch synth, so we just put it through that and then you can turn the noise up on it”
Guitar is run through the Moog Matriarch to add noise and 'dust' — the Matriarch is later named their favourite piece of gear on the record.
1:24:21 · Sub 37 · named · high confidence
“he's got Moog Sub 37, plays bass synth, he plays bass guitar, and he does percussion”
Bassist Jonjo covers bass synth duties live on a Moog Sub 37.

Pixies

43:54 · MIDI MuRF (MF-105M) · named · medium confidence
“I thought it was this Moog pedal called a MIDI MuRF, but he said that it's not.”
Tom Dalgety initially credited the modulated picked intro sound of 'I Hear You, Mary' to Joey's Moog MIDI MuRF before being corrected.

RDS

1:00:31 · Moog synthesizer · named · medium confidence
“this like Moog siren that Ty generated... it's been printed with processing, five layers over six years”
A Moog siren sound from the 2018 demo survived with layers of reverb, distortion, gating and EQ printed into it over the years.

Rex

1:02:05 · Minimoog Model D · named · high confidence
“What's your Moog? Model D. Yeah, we had that running through Alex's pedalboard”
Alex's Minimoog Model D, run through his pedalboard, provided the gritty overdub parts in the end section of 2008.

Rudimental

1:19:41 · Voyager · named · high confidence
“my Moog Voyager, some of those bass sounds, if you put the glide on and do it live, that feels like vintage D&B”
The Moog Voyager, played live with glide, provides vintage-sounding D&B bass on their tracks.

Sam Gellaitry

1:07:20 · Matriarch · named · high confidence
“I have the Moog Matriarch. I don't have like a crazy one”
Part of Sam's small hardware synth collection alongside the OB-6.

Snarky Puppy

1:02:35 · Minimoog Model D · named · high confidence
“I sampled an Indian drum for the kick. I'm playing a Minimoog Model D for the bass.”
Minimoog Model D provides the bass drone in the trap-flavoured section of Varijashree Venugopal's 'Ranjani'.
1:28:34 · Moog bass · named · medium confidence
“I added Moog bass, I added ngoni, which is like a West African lute, and I added acoustic guitars and some synths.”
Moog synth bass is the first element League added to the Pedrito Martinez/Antonio Sanchez improvisations for Ellipsis.
1:35:09 · Moog bass · named · medium confidence
“I'll play the drum percussion groove with the Moog bass... the Moog providing the kind of booty low end.”
Moog synth bass soloed to show how it pairs with an acoustic guitar doubling the same line for mid-range definition.

Tomora

33:56 · System 55 modular · named · high confidence
“In my studio there's a big old Moog System 55, which is a big modular, and Aurora came and was like, what made this?”
Aurora sought out and played the big Moog System 55 modular after hearing it on a Chemical Brothers track; it appears in Somewhere Else.