Cool Hunting traveled to the Mutato Muzika studio in Los Angeles to speak with DEVO founder and soundtrack composer Mark Mothersbaugh, who gave the site a tour of his impressive collection of vintage and new synthesizers as well as some insight into what drew him to the instrument in the first place.

When I was first writing music was in the late-60s I was looking for instruments that made sounds more relevant to our culture, things that sounded like what I heard on the news.