― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:40 (twenty years ago) link
― bob snoom, Saturday, 12 July 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 14 July 2003 09:41 (twenty years ago) link
Actually it's Mozart's "sonata facile" piano sonata..
― Captain Sleep (Captain Sleep), Monday, 14 July 2003 19:56 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 12 September 2003 12:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
sounds like it might be just my kind of thing
― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― PongHit, Friday, 12 September 2003 17:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Look-e-Here, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:01 (twenty years ago) link
"Whaaaaat?? This is from the fifties and sixties? I'm trying to achieve something like this now! Raymond Scott belongs to the phalanx of unique people like Les Paul, Oscar Sala, and Leon Theremin, to whom we owe so much in developing our own musical identity today. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of the best CD presentations I have ever had my hands on."-Holger Czukay, CAN
― Clyde94, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:06 (twenty years ago) link
― electrobeast, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
So, "all" of you "guys" work for Basta?
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link
Kid Baltan & Tom Dissevelt 4 CD box set coming soon!
― jl (Jon L), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Clyde94, Monday, 15 September 2003 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
I'd say the commercial stuff is still pretty fascinating. That IBM ad, for instance, was a work of genius. The curious can be assured that there are enough truly great moments to make this worth investigating... especially if you're a fan of Broadcast or Plone et al.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 15 September 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link
Not very many as, according to the sleevenotes, very few records were ever pressed
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 September 2003 12:45 (twenty years ago) link
Gonna go in on Raymond Scott today, any streaming era recommendations?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
The Three Willow Park comp from a couple years ago is on Spotify & full of amazing stuff
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 31 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
"Microphone Music" is my go-to Raymond which is "A collection of unreleased titles, radio performances, first-rate rehearsals and forgotten gems by the Raymond Scott Quintette recorded between 1936 and 1939."
Lurve his work!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 31 October 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
Big important double CD of his 50s/60s electronic recordings for adverts, Expo etc — called "Manhattan Research Inc." — put out last year. Gimme a day or so and I'll "review" it for you (bit late tonite, esp. when I'm already on a promise re Norman F & Cornelius C over on another thread..)
― mark s, Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:00 AM (eighteen years ago)
on spotify and apple music
― djdirtbagstyle, Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:10 (four years ago) link
yeah Manhattan Research is great, I actually kinda love that it's full of ads because it really does take you to the 1950s
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Yeah its a really amazing package. I got it when it came out, I was in high school and it completely rearranged my musical brain
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 31 October 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
thanks to this bump I'm listening again to it now, I forgot how weird this stuff was. "Limbo: The Organized Mind" is such a cool track, very much an early Twilight Zone sort of thing
I also liked this thing a lot. "Raymond Scott remixed by DJs" is not exactly the most appealing thing but I believe these are all plunderphonics dudes, pretty much everything you hear is directly from the archives
https://www.raymondscott.net/scottrewired/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
I attended a NYC Scott tribute show in '97 that featured a Bob Moog lecture/demonstration.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
If you like Powerhouse-era Raymond Scott you should definitely check out the similarly very composed but very swinging John Kirby Sextet. Don Byron put out a disk covering tunes from both called Bug Music back in 1996. These days I prefer Kirby's two-disk Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Recordings, lo-fi though it is.
― screator, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 05:21 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the recommendation, there's some stuff on Spotify and it swings hard. 30s and 40s swing just makes me happy!
Speaking of Spotify, there's some Raymond Scott albums on there that I'm not familiar with - "The Uncollected", "Essential Works", and some other later stuff. Anyone have thoughts on these?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
New and new to streaming and holy fuck this is really really good!The Jingle Workshop: Midcentury Musical Miniatures from 1951 to 1965https://open.spotify.com/album/0UzRKhet8fwxcv8XMxrEJA?si=JyNDSE9VRmOiwWWFrQ_jfw
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 01:52 (four years ago) link
Hangover Dirt!
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
if somebody don't sample "so good, so fresh, so southern" everybody is sleeping
https://raymondscott.bandcamp.com/track/so-good-so-fresh-so-southern-mel-torm-southern-bread
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link