2008 marks the 100th Year since Raymond Scott's birth. Born Harry Warnow in 1908, he never grew up and was thus able to revolutionize the audible world. Known best for his Looney Tunes soundtracks, complete with bonks, brrrrrrps, whooowhooowhooops and more, Raymond Scott mastered the radio jingle that became iconic of the 1950's and made electronic music like no one had ever heard before (and...
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This is a wonderful trance track recorded in the 60`s.(yes the 1960`s) Think Kraftwerk for babies. I have been listening to this most of the day along with Lullatone`s Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous .(They pull much from Raymond Scott.) Scott was know for music form early cartoons,conductor,composer,and electric music pioneer. If you are into Moog music, exotica, Brian Eno, Glass, 50`s sci-fi music...
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Today marks 100 years since the birth of instrumental pop genius and cartoon music staple, Raymond Scott. Longtime WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid has been a driving force behind reissuing Scott's music, and shares his story of the role WFMU played in his rediscovery of Raymond Scott back in the mid-80s.Illustration by Drew Friedman
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Beginning in the 1950s, Raymond Scott designed and built the first of many very different versions of THE RAYMOND SCOTT ELECTRONIUM, a keyboard-less, automatic composition and performance machine. This invention engaged the attention of Berry Gordy, who hired Scott as Motown's Director of Electronic Research and Development. (more info here)raymondscott.comAMore >
The first two minutes are amazing, and then.... tap dancing Indians - whoa!
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I've been listening to a lot of things since my last post on MOG.Bill Holt's Dreamies. As the story goes, this guy quit his Fortune 500 company office job to make weird experimental music. The story goes that he was fed up with the Vietnam war. The thing is, this sounds eerily reminiscent of Olivia Tremor Control, but made 20 years prior.I think I've fallen in love with the Marie Antoinette Ori...
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For some reason, I find myself fascinated in the idea that people who lived previous to my generation (born in '78) were just as weird as we are today, if not more. In more journeys through hiphop, I stumbled across Manhattan Research, Inc. Copyright. (First commercial release of Raymond Scott's electronic recordings from the 50s and 60s), released in 2000. It is an absolutely perfect example...
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