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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 …

Recording both being a single artist and in collaboration with Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey helped popularize electronic music with some albums in the 1960s which used Moog synthesizers, the Ondioline, and magnetic tape. His function was never designed to participate the avant-garde, as Perrey himself cheerfully announced in his liner …