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Old 13th January 2011   #1
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What vocoders they used in a sexy boy?
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None,he sounds like that.
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it doesnt sound like a vocoder to me. more of a lesley effect with varying speeds
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Air sexy boy.
What is a Lesley effect?
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Leslie speaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia probably.
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it doesnt sound like a vocoder to me. more of a lesley effect with varying speeds
So they use a lesley effect to sound female?
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I think it's a vp-330.
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on the synth part it definitely sounds like a vocoder.
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YouTube - AIR - Sexy Boy (LIVE@KCRW March 29, 2010) HD
No joke he sounds like that,no vocoder. I do hear some AM so a Leslie isn't a bad guess.
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If my memory serves me right, Roland VP-330 was mentioned on a Future Music article back when Moon Safari was just released.

It may be it's not on "Sexy boy", but it was definitely used on the other tracks.
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Good sound and but I hate to be negative, but I love this album and it's the only track I never play! Just me?
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Good sound and but I hate to be negative, but I love this album and it's the only track I never play! Just me?
Intro is a little annoying compared to the relax vibe of the other tracks.
Chorus is very nice though....
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Good sound and but I hate to be negative, but I love this album and it's the only track I never play! Just me?
I love lots EDM and Synth-Pop, I also listen to AIR quite exclusively as they are one of my favorite bands. All their releases are quite extraordinary. They are one of the bands that have given my synths a whole new meaning.
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If my memory serves me right, Roland VP-330 was mentioned on a Future Music article back when Moon Safari was just released.

It may be it's not on "Sexy boy", but it was definitely used on the other tracks.

Yeah this is a FM interview with full kit list if you can track it down.




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Yeah this is a FM interview with full kit list if you can track it down.

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Good sound and but I hate to be negative, but I love this album and it's the only track I never play! Just me?
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Sexy Boy is my least favorite track on the album.I skip it most of the time.I guess its the track that made the album a good seller.I'm straight so maybe hearing Sexy Boy repeating over and over is unsettling for me.The rest of the album is great!jd
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YouTube - Air Sexy Boy live 1998 NPA canal Moon safari Please watch this video.Godin use a korg vc-10 and this white think on top of the vocoder.. Is it a Sampler or lesley effect machine?
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I never play Sexy Boy either. Just don't like that track.
I remember when i didnt really know air but just had listened to some of their tracks i was pretty sure they used the same female vocalist on alot of track. It was Jean-Benoît Dunckel vocals of course. hes got such an androgynous voice.
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Good sound and but I hate to be negative, but I love this album and it's the only track I never play! Just me?
It's a great track, IMO.
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Sexy Boy is my least favorite track on the album.I skip it most of the time.I guess its the track that made the album a good seller.I'm straight so maybe hearing Sexy Boy repeating over and over is unsettling for me.The rest of the album is great!jd
you could have taken the words out of my mouth - and if your initials are JD, that's even more unsettling as they're mine also. Clone alert!

One of my all time favourite albums.... that song though.....
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funny enough, I think "sexy boy" is a great pop song, and it still has nothing to do with the fact I'm gay (lyrics have never been their strong point, to be honest...)

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YouTube - Air Sexy Boy live 1998 NPA canal Moon safari Please watch this video.Godin use a korg vc-10 and this white think on top of the vocoder.. Is it a Sampler or lesley effect machine?
That minimoog lead just sounds lovely !
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how did they get the sequenced sound at 1:25?
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Late chip-in on this conversation... but since it has just been bumped...

My fave track on there by far is All I Need. Takes me straight back to '98.
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I saw them live at the time and the vocoder was a VP-330. As far as straight people listening to sexy boy... Who cares? The song won't make you gay.
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I'm straight so maybe hearing Sexy Boy repeating over and over is unsettling for me.

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I'm straight so maybe hearing Sexy Boy repeating over and over is unsettling for me.The rest of the album is great!jd
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Late chip-in on this conversation... but since it has just been bumped...

My fave track on there by far is All I Need. Takes me straight back to '98.
That's the track (and awesome video) that made me buy the album.
Little did I know when picking it up it would become one of my biggest influences ever album wise.

It probably helped that the night I bought it I took the third best acid I've ever had. I pretty much just sat on the floor next to the stereo with Moon Safari on repeat for aprox. 10 hours.



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So they use a lesley effect to sound female?
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YouTube - AIR - Sexy Boy (LIVE@KCRW March 29, 2010) HD
No joke he sounds like that,no vocoder. I do hear some AM so a Leslie isn't a bad guess.
Two of my favorite bands had male singers that sang in a falsetto or sounded like a girl.

Russel Mael of Sparks (just the UK albums were good)

Green Garthside of Scritti Politti who is a 6'6" Welshman who is married with kids.
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