#early synth

90s teens will recognize the whistled opening from Beck’s 1996 “Sissyneck” from Odelay, but that’s not what we’re hear to talk about: it was sampled from the much weirder “The Moog and Me” from 1969 by Dick Hyman, who got his start in much blander piano music before getting into experimental electronics. This is one of the most listenable tracks on the album--no weird time signatures, no experiments with tuning the keyboard to play notes not normally part of the Western chord structure, just an early drum machine, a rhythm piano, and a call-and-response duet between his whistling and his Moog.

why does the official release of a classic Kraftwerk song have less than two hundred views

Suzanne has this album and making of on her YouTube channel.

Starts off very Jean Michel Jarre but then the drums kick in. Sit back and enjoy.

This is the funkiest little beat, I wish I knew how to freestyle

You know Raymond Scott’s works like “Toy Trumpet” and “Powerhouse” from Warner Bros. cartoons, but that all came from his jazz work in the 30s and 40s, sampled by Carl Stalling; later, Scott worked in advertising and got sick of jazz musicians wanting to improvise and started building his own synthesizers, buying parts from Bob Moog himself and using them to a really unique sound to the jingles produced by his music company, Manhattan Research Inc. “Lightworks”, a jingle for cosmetics, is one of the more famous ones and has been covered a time or two.

Recording and remixing engineer Hideo Takada