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| Artist: Perrey – Kingsley Title: The In Sound from Way Out! Date: 1966 Label: Vanguard Records VSD-79222 Design: Julius Halfant Electronic Pop Music of the Future created by…
Notes: "Here are a dozen electronic pop tunes. They are the electrifying good-time music of the coming age, the switched-on dance music that will soon be it." And so begins the liner notes from this weird and wonderful hunk of vinyl from the past. And truer words were never spoken. A quick listen to "Swan's Splashdown" and you can here the groove lifted directly for the hit Smashmouth tune "Walkin' on the Sun". Quite surprised I was in my ale enhanced condition to hear a familiar riff coming from the well worn surface of this disc one lazy afternoon. The pair of Kingsley and Perrey brought together advanced recording techniques and a taste for the unusual to create something odd and strangely captivating. And remember, this was before the time of computer editing and manipulation. It took 275 hours, miles of tape and a pair of scissors to put it all together. The tunes run from amusing to annoying, but all worth a listen or two. Even if only to find a new sample to build a song upon. The cover notes are extensive and there's a great picture of the pair of mad engineers in front of a wall of tape snippets, presumably from the "Way Out" sessions themselves. A necessity for those hangin' with the space age set.
Line Up: Gershon Kingsley Track Listing Side 1
Unidentified Flying Object Side 2 |
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