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BY J Poet

Perrey & Kingsley – French born Jean-Jacques Perrey and Berliner Gershon Kingsley – created the music today known as electronica. Before they collaborated on their two groundbreaking albums The In Sound from Way Out! (1966 Vanguard) and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Spotlight on the Moog (1967 Vanguard) electronic music had been considered avant-garde and was mostly shunned by the public as “unlistenable”. By combining the sounds of Moog, Ondioline, and Perrey’s tape loops - laboriously put together by hand by cutting and splicing recording tape together – with a whimsical pop sensibility, they created the first electronic pop music. They only made two albums together,... Read More

Genre:

Electronic-Dance, Electronica, Easy Listening, Pop Instrumental

City Of Origin:

New York, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

1966