Cosmic Americana recorded in a two room cottage in Los Osos, California. I can clearly remember the first time I heard Jon Iverson’s music. It was a quiet […]
Watch Three Legends Throw Down in ‘Lords of Synth: Live at the Necropolis’
The scene: Greece, with Halley’s Comet floating overhead. It’s the 1970s and we’re watching three “titans” of synthesizer music prepare to battle it out onstage. “Whoever scores the celestial dance of the comet most evocatively will be named the Lord of Synth,” commentator Zedd Centauri tells cohost Edgar Tangram during the broadcast. The two losers of the competition? They “will be banned from music for a period of 100 years.”
Stage thus set, over the next ten minutes the three players in Adult Swim’s fake doc “Lords of the Synth: Live at the Acropolis,” move through a ridiculous competition in which each of the players “scores” the comet’s journey. The musicians involved are Xangelix, “a reclusive genius who’s appeared in public only never”; Morgio Zoroger, “a devil-may-care playboy who drinks a lot, even for an Italian”; and Carla Wendos, “a pioneer of gender non-conformity obsessed with sonic trailblazing.”
Those who follow ’70s synth music might recognize the musicians as caricatures of Vangelis, Giorgio Morodor, and Wendy Carlos, and get the reference to Yanni’s epic Live at the Acropolis, a hugely popular New Age VHS concert released in the 1980s.
Watch Live at the Necropolis below.
