What y'all know about the OPTIGAN??!!

Secret_Chimp

A friend just hipped me to this bizarre piece of equipment that Mattel put out in the early 70s. Basically it's like a casio keyboard except that it plays 12" discs with concentric grooves.. each key plays a different band to correspond with a different musical key. Kind of like an early sampler, I guess.Anyone ever come across these discs anywhere? If so, my friend is very, very interested in buying/trading for them. Hit me on the PM if you might know where to find some. Oh, and here's a link to a website with all kinds of info about the Optigan, including sound samples.Thanks,-d.

mylatency

Magic Jackoff rocks his hard, I mean Optigan hard.

Swayze

Magic Jackoff rocks his hard, I mean Optigan hard.

seriously... it's Jacks off.
i've got about 15 discs now, with an elusive 3 or so to go. there's one called "MOVIN'" that is straight funk. lost that one to a $102 bid on ebay. there's a weird band called "optigonally yours" that somehow obtained the master tapes of all the discs, and cut an opigan-only album. it's really fun to get wasted, flip the discs over and rock that shit backwards. there are some on ebay now.

Ham

yes, it'd be nice to own one of those..there's also similiar type instruments like the chilton talentmaker and the orchestron, related to the mellotron i guess wich functions in kind of the same way

mylatency

there's a weird band called "optigonally yours" that somehow obtained the master tapes of all the discs, and cut an opigan-only album.

Optigonally Yours is Pea Hicks from San Diego.

http://www.optigan.com/oy.html

Swayze

more-cock-o molesauce on the optigon...

parsec

I FREAK THAT SHIT

Descry

i've gotta sample cd of some optigan shiet. i never actually throw it into production though.