Perrey & Kingsley

[cotley]

Apologies if this is covered elsewhere, couldn't dredge up anything...

As I repurchase The In Sound From Way Out after it got nicked by one of the kids I teach (well, at least it'll educate them further I guess), I discovered the cover and title were both taken from Perrey & Kingsley album.

This is clearly common knowledge to most of you with your immense collective stalkers' knowledge, but news to me!

Anyone got more info on this? I know Perrey Kingsley are hugely sampled - do BB sample them in particular? What's the actual P&K album itself like? Worth a purchase I take it?

Cheers. Can't wait until release tomorrow....

[YoungRemy]

it was considered a vanguard album in the world of electronic music...

this is from the wiki page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_In_Sound_from_Way_Out!_(Perrey_and_Kingsley_al bum)) on the album
Perrey and Kingsley came together during Kingsley's stint as a staff arranger at Vanguard. At that time, Perrey was experimenting with tape loops, which he had been introduced to by the French avant-garde musician Pierre Schaeffer. Each loop was a laboriously hand-spliced assembledge of filtered sounds, pitch-manipulated sounds and sometimes even animal calls. The end result of their first collaborative effort in 1966 combined Perrey's tape loops, and his inventive melodies with Kingsley's complementary arrangements and instrumentation and their album was filled with tunes that sounded like an animated cartoon gone berserk. The result, titled The In Sound From Way Out! was released on Vanguard that same year. Since this was decades before the advent of widespread digital technology, each tune took weeks of painstaking editing and splicing to produce.

i also think the album's playful spirit and space-themed titles are similar- The Mix Up shares many of the zany sound effects and synthesized effects...

here is the tracklist
The Unidentified Flying Object 1:57
The Little Man From Mars 2:25
Cosmic Ballad 3:24
Swan's Spashdown 2:16
Countdown At 6 2:48
Barnyard In Orbit 2:22
Spooks In Space 2:02
Girl From Venus 2:21
Electronic Can-Can 1:59
Jungle Blues From Jupiter 2:55
Computer In Love 2:08
Visa To The Stars 2:15

[taquitos]

I just grabbed this from the library today.

great, great album, a must hear for anyone and everyone.

Edit: at the very least download "Jungle Blues from Jupiter"

[brooklyndust]

I will check it out

[beastieboysbaby]

i almost bought it yesterday but im gonna pick it up tmrw. is it an instrumental cd? cause they have a sticker on the cover of the cd that said it's instrumental and i didn't know if that was referring to the whole cd.

[taquitos]

Yeah it is instrumental. My local library had it in a box set titled "The Out Sound From Way In" that featured
an additional two other full-length albums of early electronic music from the same era, as well as a disk of re-mixes
by fatboy slim and eurotrash.

I recommend picking up "The In Sound From Way Out" by itself.