surdfishSexual awakenings? I've had a few,
but none quite as strange as Xenon.
Don't know why my pervy old brain picked today to recall the super-sultry, vocoded "Try Xenon..." of Bally's 1980 pinball revelation, after decades of unbothered oblivion. Watching the randy House Sparrows fuck themselves silly this morning on the lawn, in the hedge, on the verandah, back to the hedge, under the kayaks, on the roof... might have touched off a dose of my own spring fever. No worries, I sublimated any urge to fuck a pinball machine into looking for audio/samples of the game and struck gold.
BEHOLD! and TIL! Suzanne Ciani is the composer and voice of all those entrancing sci-fi sounds held deep in Xenon's Vocalizer Module, across her eight 4k ROM chips. Eight! Don't get me started on her MPU, which I've learned stands for Memory Protection Unit--likely the same Motorola 6808-powered unit that's in control of my dusty libido.
Anyway, she's (Suzanne Ciani, not Xenon) got a YT channel and recently created extended takes of the music (at a better resolution I reckon).
Suzanne Ciani ~ Xenon Long Effects
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