Optiganally Yours
O.y. In Hi-fi (black)
The Optigan was a chord organ made by Mattel in the early 1970s that played back lo-fi sound loops on flexible LP sized discs, each disc containing optically encoded rhythm section grooves in a particular style of music (i.e. country, bossanova), along with drum loops and keyboard tones. Think of it as the 1970s version of GarageBand, where amateur artists could put together their own songs using loops of recordings by professional musicians. After releasing two albums, 1997's 'Spotlight On Optiganally Yours' followed by 'Exclusively Talentmaker' in 2000 Pea rescued the Optigan's original studio master tapes from a SoCal garage, and set out to assemble basic tracks from the thousands of loops and sam ples the tapes contained. Thus work began on a third album, 'O.Y. in HiFi'.