​Mr 羅

Whatever the official record says, Mr Luo assigns his true birthdate to the evening his father took him to Jean-Michel Jarre’s concert in Peking in 1981. Before this time, access both to Prog and to Kraut had been the preserve of a tight circle of Party cadres, and all that had filtered through to the young Luo was a nth-generation cassette of Tomita warming over the popular classics. JMJ, however, was the first taste of true synthesizer-based music. ‘After two minutes of “Arpeggiator”’ says Luo, 'I knew I would give my life to the Moog.’ Coming across a stolen fax copy of Bob Moog’s circuits led to several years in seclusion in the Sichuan mountains, first building a Modular out of Soviet navy surplus components, then listening solely to early Popul Vuh and Virgin-era Tangs. A great example of the benefits of Reform, Luo has through sheer application and almost insane dedication remade himself as one of the major Moog Outsourcing Contract (MOC) options in the world.