In 1968 (That's more than 50 years ago) Wendy Carlos released her debut album Switched-On-Bach, a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed on a Moog synthesizer. The album became an unexpected commercial success, which helped change people's perceptions of the synthesizer from a noisy machine to a musical instrument.
Switched-On-Bach received a poor reception from classical music purists, but it became very popular among young people interested in electronic sounds, for whom the words "switched on" evoked the druggy/erotic idea of "turned on". The album was so popular that it became the second classical album to be certified platinum and triggered a paradigm shift, in which electronic instruments were started seen as something more than just "beeps and bloops"
In the years that followed, musicians and record labels all over the world copied the idea and produced a large number of "switched-on" type albums, including not only Moog renditions of classical music but also pop, rock, folk, country, and other styles. This mix is a selection of some of these Moog "trippy" covers. Let's get switched-on !
Tracklist        1    -    Intro2    -    Wendy Carlos - Two Part Invention In F Major (Switched-On Bach)3    -    Christopher Scott - Wishin' And Hopin' (More Switched On Bacharach)4    -    Isao Tomita - Polk Salad Annie (Switched On Hit & Rock)5    -    New World Electronic Chamber Ensemble - Here, There, And Everywhere (Switched On Beatles)6    -    Jean Jacques Perrey - Gossipo Perpetuo (Moog Indigo)7    -    Gil Trythall - Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Switched On Nashville (Country Moog))8    -    Sid Bass - Malagueña (Moog España)9    -    Tomita - Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque, No.3) (Snowflakes Are Dancing)10    -    Dick Hyman - Time Is Tight (The Age Of Electronicus)11    -    Bruno Spoerri - Stägeli Uf, Stägeli Ab (Iischalte (Switched-on Switzerland))12    -    Leonid Hambro And Gershon Kingsley - I Got Rhythm (Switched-On Gershwin)13    -    Jeff Haskell - I've Got A Tiger By The Tail (Switched-On Buck)14    -    Hans Wurman - Minute Waltz (Chopin À La Moog)15    -    The Eden Electronic Ensemble -The Entertainer (Plugged In Joplin)16    -    Piero Umiliani E I Suoi Oscillatori - Tarantella (Switched On Naples)17    -    Hans Wurman - IV. Rondo: Allegro (The Moog Strikes Bach)18    -    Gil Trythall - Nashville Moog (Nashville Gold (Switched On Moog))19    -    Gershon Kingsley - For Alisse Beethoven (Music To Moog By)20    -    Rick Powell - Kaw-Liga (Switched-On-Country)21    -    Sy Mann - Christmas Bells (Switched On Santa)22    -    The Mighty Moog - Carmen (Switched on Bolero)23    -    M.Sat? - Pechika (Switched On East)