Perrey-Kingsley

In the mid-’60s, Frenchman Jean-Jacques Perrey — an electric musician who had helped popularize the Ondioline, a keyboard which created sounds like the violin as well as the flute — teamed up with American composer and arranger Gershon Kingsley to get a couple albums of then-futuristic electronic pop. Using tape recorders, scissors, and splicing tape, they documented variants on pop motifs that, while kitschy from a latter-day perspective, displayed the state-of-the-art in digital sounds at that time. Two LPs, The In Audio from WAY TO AVOID IT! and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations, had been released by Vanguard in the past due ’60s. Perrey also documented many albums of Moog music being a single artist, and returned into vogue in the 1990s with an attribute in the reserve Incredibly Unusual Music. Everyone from Stereolab and µ-Ziq towards the Beastie Children and hip-hop super-producer Timbaland highlighted ideas lent from Perrey-Kingsley prominently on monitors of their very own, while Perrey started recording once again, both by himself and with fellow Frenchmen Surroundings.