A new discovery on my part, Raymond Scott is a composer, orchestra leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and an electronic instrument inventor. I first heard him in J Dilla’s Donuts with the track “Lightworks” and the cartoony playfulness of early electronics instantly called upon me to seek for more. Here are some interesting facts, [...]

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A respected member of grandpa-electronics, one of the first moog musicians, one half of the Perrey-Kingsley duo and a composer for TV, ballet, dolphins and insomniacs in need of musical theraphy… good old J. J. Perrey is no less an inspiration for all electronic musicians of our era.
Formerly an accordeon player, Perrey started his [...]

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I know i had said earlier that the next music i reviewed would not be older than my father. I’m now going to eat those words with these pieces from Sonny Lester. Hey, can you blame me for getting a space age pop album named “How to bellydance for your husband”? I know, you would [...]

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Guys let’s shake our old dusty cabinet some more. I swear this is the last oldie for some time coming, but i got to do this last one mostly because i like the music and partly because his name means “dead waiter” in Turkish:)
The saying “No job too silly to take seriously” being his [...]

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Shame on me for taking so long to write a post :(
Sorry, I’ve been meaning to post these for some time but fortunately the lost time is not so important, since these are already yesterday’s news. These gems from the space-age bachelor pad music era are taken from Re/Search’s Incredibly Strange Music, vol.1. The [...]

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This was undoubtedly the happiest find i had for months. Theatrical (almost like a BBC drama) spoken-word nature documentaries all along tinny claviers, bluegrass melodies, soulful choruses and all sounding like it’s coming from your grandpa’s phonograph…
While at first i thought Bruce Haack was some wacky minimal musician’s moniker and this album was his idea [...]

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