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mcelroyfamilystaff · 3 months

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How y'all feelin' about that new theme song?

#taz #dracula #the adventure zone #taz vs dracula #mcelroys #mort garson #castlevania #SoundCloud

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jazznoisehere · 9 months

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Mort Garson: Journey To The Moon And Beyond (Sacred Bones, 2023)

Artwork & Design by Robert Beatty

#mort garson #journey to the moon and beyond #robert beatty #album covers #sci fi #illustration #graphic design #artists #websites #spacesuits #cats

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angelnumber27 · 5 months

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#mine #vinyl #plantasia #music #upload #mort garson

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funkylittlebats · 5 months

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Ok so I was looking up stuff about Mort Garson (helped popularize synthesizers, he made Déjà Vu, the TAZ Balance theme song) and I found this image

which is a lovely piece of art (couldn't find the artist, unfortunately) but look in the bottom right

that's the Bureau of Balance logo

So now I'm curious. Is this artwork paying a small tribute to a podcast where his music is featured prominently, or did Griffin nab the BOB logo from this art of Mort Garson?

Anyway go check out his music it's incredible.

This version of the post has the artist identified!!

#mort garson #taz #taz balance #honestly im so glad griffin used his music for taz bc not only is it a perfect fit for taz but it's allowed me to discover his cool tunes

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rhetthammersmithhorror · 6 months

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Ataraxia ⚬ Sorcerer

The Unexplained — Electronic Musical Impressions Of The Occult

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Night Gallery ⚬ The Return of the Sorcerer ⚬ S3.E1 ⚬ 1972

#Mort Garson #Vincent Price #Horror icon #horror #horror anthology #Night Gallery #Clark Ashton Smith #halloween music #haunted house music #audio

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csswingandeasy · 5 months

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#😔#mort garson #plantasia #mother earth’s Plantasia

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cheddar-baby · 1 year

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This was the peak of music history and no one can convince me otherwise

#mort garson #plantasia #music #Bandcamp

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cultreslut · 4 months

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the zodiac, cosmic sounds, 1967

a project by mort garson of plantasia fame, art by abe gurvin

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#the zodiac #mort garson #abe gurvin #psychedelic rock #experimental #album art #album cover #illustration #design #1960s #60s #cultreslut

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musicmoreweirdthangood · 5 days

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Captain DJ, 1978: “Disco UFO (Part 1)”

This was actually one of many names used by Mort Garson, who released music in a LOT of styles. He started in easy listening soft dance bands, got into experimental electronics and produced albums like the famous “Plantasia” and the Satanic-themed “Black Mass”, then came out the other side recording kung-fu-themed instrumental funk and even this proto-rap disco-funk single.

#70s music #Plantasia #rap #sort of #disco #mort Garson #Youtube

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7grandmel · 2 months

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Todays rip: 19/02/2024

Plantasia 2

Season 5 Featured on: SiIvaGunner's Highest Quality Rips: Volume D

Ripped by MaxTrax

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Requested by The Eight O’Clock Comet and an anonymous reader!

Remember those times where I've mused on just how interesting it is to fall into rabbitholes from running this blog? Y'know, with waterwraith pokos - a rip I once thought nothing of that refuses to leave my head since I learned more about its joke origin and spread. There's a good number more rabbitholes just like it, yet few have truly caught my attention quite the way Plantasia 2 did. And, beyond it too being a rip of Pikmin 2, the strangest part of it all is - it hardly feels as if the rip itself even *wanted* to be uncovered.

I'm half certain that I myself missed out on the rip's core premise from tabbing out after listening for a bit, because it presents itself as so innocuously. A track as immediately distinct and identifiable in sound as Results of the Day, melody swapped to some classic SiIva jokes: Among Us Drip, Grand Dad, Nutshack - Oh what silly whimsy, what hijinx! An everyday, standard, good-quality rip to send to your Pikmin-interested friends as an icebreaker, without much else to it - and that's the way it stays for almost two whole minutes of its runtime. Click, laugh at the bait-and-switch joke, move on - the typical rip listening experience for many viewers (or at least myself) truly doesn't do Plantasia 2 justice.

Because, as you yourself may have noticed - at the minute-fifty timestamp, the rip hard-pivots in direction, to the point of even getting original visuals, all in loving tribute to the 1976 album Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson. If you're unfamiliar, I don't blame you, but just a quick glance at both him and his album's Wikipedia pages will tell you just how much of a legacy they both have. With the intent of making music specifically for plants to listen to, to the point of only distributing the album alongside purchases of houseplants from the titular Mother Earth store, Mother Earth's Plantasia was one of the first albums to have ever been composed entirely on a Moog synthesizer - purely for the listening pleasure of plant-life. In other words: It's pretty important to the history of synthesized music in general! Beyond that historical angle, it of course helps that the title track Plantasia, the one that Plantasia 2 is an arrangement of in particular, is absolutely soul-cleansingly beautiful, with an opening prelude that immediately brought to mind everything from Final Fantasy to Minecraft, yet building to a triumphant crescendo that reminded me of We're Finally Landing of SummoningSalt-video fame. The influences taken from Mother Earth's Plantasia can be felt everywhere, yet the root of it all feels all too forgotten about.

To say that Pikmin is the perfect franchise to use for this kind of tribute would be an understatement - the synth-driven Results of the Day theme has persisted with the series since its very beginning, conveying the beauty of space within a game otherwise so focused on exploring beautiful gardens. It's as if its conveying a sort of juxtaposition between the two sides to Pikmin's world, ytet the feeling that both it and the original Mother Earth's Plantasia convey is also one of connection between the two. The plants looking to the stars, to other unknown life beyond planet earth, longingly dreaming about the universe...the Pikmin are just little plant guys, and yet a theme like Results of the Day sparks so many emotions. I can't help but feel yet more emotional thinking about the humble, pure-hearted upbringings of both Pikmin and Mother Earth's Plantasia - both Shigeru Miyamoto and Mort Garson sought to create something out of a love for nature itself moreso than fame and fortune, and in doing so helped move their respective mediums forward in thoroughly underappreciated ways.

MaxTrax's list of contributions to the SiIvaGunner channel is comparatively small, with him seemingly ebbing in and out of activity practically every other year. Yet that gives me the impression that he genuinely puts his whole heart into each contribution he makes, to share these small, niche little nuggets of his interests to the broader SiIvaGunner audience; much the same impression I got from the ripper Uncle Fill in Violet Snow Memories. For MaxTrax, Plantasia doesn't appear to just be some neat song to tinker around with for another rip - Plantasia 2 exudes that feel of being a genuine passion project, akin to rips like Jesus of the Underground. Yet, much like Mother Earth's Plantasia or Pikmin itself, it also seems perfectly content in not being a big, explosive, all-eyeballs-on-me event of a release: the ones who are going to notice the true intentions of Plantasia 2 are the Pikmin fans who were going to listen to it the whole way through anyway.

It's all still just so bizarre to me - the rip does a *double* bait-and-switch in a way I haven't really seen much of since it was first done way back in Be Cool, Be Wild, and Be My Girl, yet...doesn't do it at the expense of, or as a joke played on, the audience. It is purely a surprise treat to those SiIvaGunner fans who truly pay attention, who approach the channel with care and dignity, engaging with other fans in dialogue - again, I'm almost certain that I missed the point of it when it was first uploaded and only found out about its true intentions through more than one person requesting it for the blog! The sense of community that SiIvaGunner is able to create through finding your own special little rips, sharing them with others, being invited to uncover these fascinating little pieces of knowledge purely from a rippers' interests...it really is special, and Plantasia 2 truly does embody it in such a fascinating, befitting way. Because really: what could possibly be more representative of love, compassion, empathy and care for others, than to tend to one's garden with such a human form of expression as music?

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mwaudiovisual · 1 year

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Redid a 2019 drawing of @nyanoraptor’s Barb, now even more explicitly referencing Mort Garson’s Plantasia

#mwaudiovisual #furry art #furry #anthro #nyanoraptor #barb #plantasia #mort garson

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burlveneer-music · 9 months

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Mort Garson - Journey to the Moon and Beyond - Sacred Bones' new collection of the synth pioneer's odds and ends

Like a perennial that returns with each new spring, the Mort Garson archives (Plantasia, Ataraxia, Lucifer) have brought to bear yet another awe-inspiring bloom. Journey to the Moon and Beyond finds even more new facets to the man’s sound. There’s the soundtrack to the 1974 blaxploitation film Black Eye (starring Fred Williamson), some previously unreleased and newly unearthed music for advertising. Just as regal is “Zoos of the World,” where Garson soundtracks the wild, preening, slumbering animals from a 1970 National Geographic special of the same name. The mind reels at just what project would have yielded a scintillating title like “Western Dragon,” but these three selections were found on tapes in the archive with no further information. The crown jewel of the set is no doubt Garson’s soundtrack to the live broadcast of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, as first heard on CBS News. That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for Moogkind. For decades, this audio was presumed lost, the only trace of it appearing to be from an old YouTube clip. Thankfully, diligent audio archivist Andy Zax came across a copy of the master tape while going through the massive Rod McKuen archive. So now we get to hear it in all its glory. Across six minutes, Garson conjures broad fantasias, whirring mooncraft sounds, zero-gravity squelches, and twinkling études. It showcases Mort’s many moods: sweet, exploratory, whimsical, a little bit corny, weaving it all together in a glorious whole.

#mort garson #electronic #synthesizer #sacred bones #2023 #70s #Bandcamp

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oldshowbiz · 10 months

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