2001 A MOOG ODDYSEY
In 2001 Jean Jacques Perrey and Luke Vibert met for the first time to embark on a fantastic journey that would finally yield the remarkable ‘Moog Acid’.

The ‘Moog Acid’ album covers many of the styles you would expect from such a creative partnership, insane cut ups using JJP’s original samples, drum and bass, disco, hip hop and funk beats, the voice of Jean Jacques, together with trumpet, sitar, percussion and all manner of Moogs and electronic manipulation, to create one of the most inspirational and enjoyable albums you’re ever likely to hear. More info in the full press sheet.

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ONE WEEK TO LIVE: "What do you get if you cross a 77 year-old French pioneer of musique concrete (very loosely defined as the art of deconstructing and rebuilding recorded sounds) who was one of the first Moog synth musicians and an enormously important influence on everyone from the Beastie Boys to Aphex Twin with a celebrated funkadellic Cornish beat junkie called Luke Vibert? A Moogalicous journey through riddim killa Vibert's dumb jungle, dope disco and heavy hip hop flavour – that's what!
Your boy Luke is something of a cult figure here at the Lodge. His discography is littered with genius, incorporating everything from his killer junglistic output as Plug ('Drum and Bass for Papa' is probably one of the most slept-on D&B classics of all time), to his downtempo grooves for Mo'Wax, his off kilter ish as Wagon Christ, flavoursome disco as Kerrier District, and oddball jungle as Amen Andrews or Spac Hand Luke. This collaboration with M. Perrey is, as expected, a pure pleasure then. Vibert is in his element, slicing and dicing Perrey's original works to within an inch or their lives before layering his trademark loping beats over the top. Killer."

SWINE.CO.UK "Moog Acid teams up two genuine electronic music pioneers, French Moog madman, JJP and Cornish synth crank LV on this startlingly original collaboration. As JJP’s intro informs us; ‘moog acid means a lot of work from Luke putting zeze sounds togezzer and making zis fantastic music and a lifetime for me to make zese sounds.’ 

Schwing’s bass heavy bop seques into Analog Generique’s ambient trippy vibes. Dream 106 has a hip hop backbeat, ‘eurggh’ rap chants, sitars and JJP telling us that his favourite colour is blue. Frere Jacques takes the nursery rhyme and twists it into a creepy dislocated slice of quack-tech.

JJPLVDNB (get it?) is a comic cosmic drum n’ bass tour around Moog Moomin Land (it IS silly! Luke admits at the end). Ye Olde Beatbox is a gorgeous trippy hoppy jog around Jodrell Bank whereas Vision For The Future gets funky with electro licks and techno washes. Messy Hop’s orchestral organ-ic grandeur stands in contrast to  White Knight (Black In The Day)’s  boop-de-doop 70s sci-fi theme. Closing track,  

You Moog Me  is a suitably funky end to an LP of interesting sound collages from the past, present and future of electronica. Vibert has used his considerable skill as a ‘composer and producer’ to update Perrey’s now anachronistic experimentalism into the here and now with mixed results. Whilst it’s always playful and interesting, Moog Acid often feels a tad too in-jokey for its own good.  

As the master himself once put it; Moog Is Moog but then he also said Moog Mig Mag Moog so we shouldn’t take everything JJP says at face value."

DJ / BBC COLLECTIVE - FREELANCE "Love Luke when he's a little less abrasive and more melodic - he's got great stuff to work with here and it reminds me a little bit of early Wagon Christ stuff in parts."

IDJ "Good, the sound of guys playing music for the sake of it."