(requisite HFS NO P&K THREAD YET!)
I've been listening to the first two discs of The Out Sound From Way In! - The Vanguard Years compilation... which contains those two Perrey & Kingsley albums The In Sound From Way Out! and Spotlight On The Moog: Kaleidoscopic Variations as well as the first two Jean-Jacques Perrey albums The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey and Moog Indigo. (And there's a bonus CD with remixes by Fatboy Slim of E.V.A. that are alright and more remixes by someone named Eurotrash which are kinda bad, but whatevs.)
Classique, Classique, Classique, Classique!!
Spotlight is the best album of the bunch for number of great songs (and also cornerstone songs "The Savers" and "Baroque Hoedown"), although the first album is practically tied in greatness. However, as a sum-of-the-parts thing, Moog Indigo is the best in that regard. Even ignoring "E.V.A", it's quite a pioneering record as far as pushing the limits of electronic pop -- especially when people were going ooh and aah over a singular synth warble in an Emerson Lake and Palmer song by the time Moog Indigo was released.
Drop the love and hate here.
― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:23 (fifteen years ago) link
aw, nice one. I only have The In Sound From Way Out! thus far, but it's pretty great.
that, and 42 remixes of 'Popcorn', most of which are pretty bad.
― salsa shark, Friday, 1 August 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I only have The In Sound From Way Out! thus far, but it's pretty great.
yeah, i have this and moog indigo, both of which i love. one of my big regrets of recent years was not buying that box at the tower going out of business sale. i did get the kingsley god is a moog 2cd which is, uh, interesting. i'm not quite sure i like it.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 1 August 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Kaleidoscopic's such a great record. So fun.
― Niles Caulder, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I had the great fortune of DJing 8hrs of moog music after JJ Perrey's "performance"at Berlin's Club Transmediale a couple of years back. Kept the punters dancing, too. A highlight for me.
I admit to being a completist when it comes down to it, but Mood Indigo does it for me through and through.
― tvdisko, Friday, 1 August 2008 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Somehow my father actually owned In Sounds and Kaleidoscopic when they originally came out, though he has no recollection of why. I've been giddy over those LPs since I was a kid.
Random facts:
- Andy Badale, co-writer of the track "Visa to the Stars" on In Sounds and a handful of songs on the Perrey solo albums, eventually went back to using his real name: Angelo Badalamenti.
- Anyone who grew up around NYC in the '60s-'70s will recognize "Electronic Can-Can" as the theme from the Sunday morning kids' show Wonderama. Another 5 or 6 tracks from the In Sounds album were used as bumpers going in and out of commercials.
- Millions of people have heard "Baroque Hoedown" without knowing it--the song, greatly expanded, was used as the soundtrack to the Disneyland Electrical Parade for several decades.
...at the tower going out of business sale. i did get the kingsley god is a moog 2cd which is, uh, interesting. i'm not quite sure i like it.
- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 1 August 2008 02:15 (Yesterday) Link
Me too--they must have had a hundred copies at every Tower. It's not the worst thing I picked up during the sale (that would be Pilotdrift - Water Sphere), but it's an acquired taste I don't expect to acquire very soon.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 2 August 2008 03:04 (fifteen years ago) link
oh i was going to start a perrey thread but then i found this. here's the track i was going to post, though, off Moog Indigo.
passport to the future! (.mp3) (<-- not a rickroll!)
― poortheatre, Monday, 8 December 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
One can extrapolate all of electro from the first 8 seconds of "The Savers" (1967).
― derelict, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 02:41 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZkYRFpk8Og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtWzoUkSZk
Perrey's 1973 album Moog Expressions is pretty great. it's a lot creepier and more minimal than the Perrey-Kingsley albums, probably because it was conceived as library music. oddly he released this album and a couple others under his daughter's name (Pat Prilly) even though she wasn't heavily involved in the recordings (beyond providing Perrey with some melodic ideas).
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 3 July 2015 04:43 (eight years ago) link
*1972
apparently there are five Pat Prilly LPs, but this is the only one I've heard
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 3 July 2015 04:47 (eight years ago) link
moog sensations is dope iirc
― los blue jeans, Friday, 3 July 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link
I'll have to check that one out. as far as I can tell it's the only Pat Prilly album that's been reissued (under Perrey's name)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Friday, 3 July 2015 05:02 (eight years ago) link
yeah I got the dare dare cd back in the day
― los blue jeans, Friday, 3 July 2015 05:45 (eight years ago) link
RIP Jean-Jacques :((((
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jean-jacques-perrey-electronic-music-pioneer-dead-at-87-w448782
http://www.radiorectangle.be/fr/les-10-albums-phares-de-jean-jacques-perrey-en-streaming.html
― Jeff W, Saturday, 5 November 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
:( RIP, thanks for all the Mooging
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 5 November 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link