The Complete San Francisco Moog: 1968-72

by Doug McKechnie

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All but two of the tracks from the San Francisco Moog and San Francisco Moog Vol. 2 LPs collected on one glass-mastered CD in full-color wallet packaging, featuring an insert with full LP liner notes, including contributions from Doug, Hearts of Space's Stephen Hill, and Suzanne Ciani. The two remaining tracks are included with your download.

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	1.	The First Exploration @ SF Radical Laboratories 1968 08:31
	2.	Meditation Moog 1968 04:23
	3.	Baseline 05:12
	4.	Berkeley Art Museum 13:06
	5.	Crazy Ray 08:25
	6.	Search for an Honest Man 08:23
	7.	Mediation Moog 2 02:26
	8.	Glide 11:34
	9.	Live at the Family Dog 05:59
	10.	Gyre and Gimble (digital-only bonus track) 03:44
	11.	Moving (digital-only bonus track) 03:05
	12.	Mr. Toad's Wild Ride 07:15
	13.	Rumble Ramp Explosion 02:27

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The first volume of San Francisco Moog: 1968-72 introduced the world to a trove of recordings from a little-known hinge point in electronic-music history. Vol. 2 brought to light the rest of tapes—and the rest of the story. Now The Complete San Francisco Moog collects all those recordings into one digital package.

In 1968, Bay Area native Doug McKechnie got hold of one the very first modular Moog synthesizers ever made. Working outside of academia and traditional recording studios—the only places one could find Moogs at the time—he invented his own way to play the instrument on the fly. Soon, he was hauling the finicky instrument around to perform improvised concerts at colleges and psychedelic ballrooms, as well as an ill-fated appearance on the bill at the Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969. Some of the performances were recorded, and the surviving tapes—never released before the first SF Moog LP in 2020—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.

Cuts like “The First Exploration @ SF Radical Labs, 1968” and “Berkeley Art Museum” find McKechnie building and expanding musical moods that capture the in-the-moment nature of his playing. “Meditation Moog 1968” finds him taking a more minimalist approach, while still exploring the instrument’s timbral possibilities. “Baseline” and “Crazy Ray,” though improvised, sound more like fully formed musical compositions, with melody, counterpoint, and even hooks of a sort. Other tracks capture a wider range of sounds and moods, encompassing austere sonic experiments (such as "Meditation Moog 2") and early sequenced pulses (including "Search for an Honest Man"). "Live at the Family Dog,"captures some of the ambiance of the legendary. ephemeral Denver concert hall on one of Doug and Moog's touring adventures. "Rumble Ramp Explosion" offers a suitably dramatic end for this chapter of documenting his work.

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"All pieces were created improvisationally in an atmosphere of exploration and discovery on a Moog Modular Series III synthesizer and recorded live with no overdubbing to Ampex PR-10, Nagra 3, or TEAC four-channel recorders." —Doug McKechnie

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released March 17, 2023

Produced by Doug McKechnie, Lee Gardner, and PJ Dorsey
Mastered by A.F Jones at Laminal Audio
Art direction by Frank Hamilton, Nolen Strals, and Chad Pelton
Mandala art by Richard Winn Taylor

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