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Although the similarities were coincidental, the band was sometimes compared to Daft Punk (pictured) The Moog Cookbook was formed by Roger Manning and Brian Kehew shortly after the demise of Manning's band Jellyfish.
Yet as Daft Punk's 1997 album, Homework, was giving DJ culture its first crossover smash in the American pop market, Moog Cookbook found themselves treading water. A year later they'd...
As the new millennium and all its promise of hoverboards and threats of Y2K meltdown came hurtling towards us back in 1996, the Moog Cookbook arrived in their proto-Daft Punk helmets to whisk adventurous pop fans to the final frontier of awesomeness.
Kehew said that "The look of Moog Cookbook can be traced back to those kinds novelty bands like the Spotnicks and French disco band, Space, who had a hit with "Magic Fly" in 1977 and wore astronaut helmets and plastic jumpsuits. I know Daft Punk were into them too."
Feb 23, 2021 · It features photos of a pre-robot mask wearing Daft Punk (they were opting for frog and pig masks in this shoot) alongside a list of all the equipment they used to make ‘Homework’. Among the list are beloved synths and drum machines such Roland’s TB-303, TR-707, TR-808 and TR-909, and less obviously, an IOMEGA floppy disk zip drive.
Daft Punk was known to use heavy distortion, deep lowpass filters (giving that underground muffled sound as heard on the intro of Around the World), and slight reverb (room echo) on a lot of their music - especially the samples.
Aug 14, 2023 · By the 2000s, a wave of nostalgia for vintage analog synths emerged, epitomized by groups like Daft Punk who prominently featured Moog and other analog instruments. Bob Moog did not live to see the resurrection of Moog Music.
