#Jean-Jacques Perrey

[cosmonautroger]

Jean-Jacques Perrey, 1961

[vinyl-artwork]

Jean-Jacques Perrey – Moog Indigo (1970) Cover Photography : Fred Burrell.

[glassesfreekjr]

The CEO of MakoMart (LLC) was named Trout Jehoshaphat Craven, and he almost deserved it.

Hosting Turf War matches in a supermarket was a rather off-the-wall business decision to begin with, but it payed back dividends in publicity, exposure, and — most importantly — that sweet, sweet slice of the profit pie. Now, the ground-level employees of MakoMart never saw much of said profit, but Trout reasoned to himself that, by virtue of his mere presence as a high-net-worth individual, it would all trickle down to them one way or another.

One evening, he had his most brilliant idea yet: a theme song! Not your standard commercial jingle; MakoMart already had several inoffensive tunes in that vein. Nay, this was to be a full-fledged battle anthem worthy of both the Turf War scene and MakoMart itself! If a bowling alley was able to squeeze a smash hit out of some worthless floozies from the boondocks (Deep Cut with "Smeared Canvas"), why, Trout J. Craven could commission an even better work of art for even less, couldn't he! Thrift and Grift were his two middle names! (if you discounted the one he already had, but tbf who wouldn't?)

So it's rather unlucky that, by happenstance, the indie band this CEO hired to compose an anthem for MakoMart were:

A.) fervent anti-capitalists B.) already in a collective, melodramatic affair with his wife.

The five-and-a-half minute power ballad that played over the intercoms that weekend made both these points very explicit.

(The lyricist is best known for his ill-fated collaboration with Pearl Houzuki on "#$@%* Dudes Be #$@%* Sleepin'", if that gives you a better picture.)

During the resulting scorched-earth legal klusterfuffle that continues to this very day, the rights to the "employee bonus" one-and-a-half-minute karaoke version (now playing) was inexplicably sold off to interested parties from Barnacle & Dime — who started sneaking it onto their Turf War playlist. While this karaoke version is but a shell of what it's supposed to have been, it's become one of those near-memetic songs where if you know, you know.

Eventually, life goes on, jokes are left behind, and this tune will comfortably fade into the grocery store background static that it probably should've been in the first place.

(sample source list can be found on my YouTube)

[mistfunk]

Mistigram: This #teletext adaptation of the cover art to Moog innovator and Ondioline proponent #JeanJacquesPerrey's 1968 album #TheAmazingNewElectronicPopSoundOfJeanJacquesPerrey was drawn by @ZXGuesser and included in the new music-themed MIST0224 artpack collection.

[alyallow]

Album Art for Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert's record MOOG ACID was created and photographed by Dan McPharlin.

[satelliteduster]

Brazilian Flower - Jean-Jacques Perrey

[mitjalovse]

Early electronic music had to fight a lot? Well, I wouldn't go that far, yet I believe the early electronic musicians that tried to achieve the mainstream did have to encounter some resistance. I mean, check Jean-Jacques Perrey, he did a lot of melodic electronic music. However, he doesn't get mentioned for the same reason as Gershon Kingsley, i.e. their style seems way too cheerful for the machine tunes. That might be one of the reasons Kraftwerk continue to be prominent about in the category of the early electronica outfits, i.e. they fit a stereotype of cold robot – they fit, mind you, they aren't really like this at all, whereas Perrey seemed like a very funny man with a keyboard that made some hilarious noises.

[prep-radio]

June 10, 2022: Patterns

I keep falling into these same unhealthy habits, both physically and socially. What causes us to want to do things that we know are wrong? Is it the instant gratification? Is it that we feel we deserve the negative consequences? Or is it only me?

[oldshowbiz]

The great sound of Jean Jacques Perrey.

[nevertoomanyspiders]

oh yeah re:playlists

sure I share my longass playlists with friends but that is generally if i have a pretty good idea of what they like or if they're looking for something new to listen to.

one bubbly and cutesy character may have a mostly J-pop and eurobeat saturated playlist while another may be kinda gloomy and edgy and have darkwave and industrial tunes. a 70s themed character will have 70s pop and rock (but especially prog rock lol)

but yeah. i tend to be biased towards electronic music in most cases but i do like supplementing with appropriately themed music.

music tastes can be very particular and I'm pretty picky about what i might get into. acoustic guitars are definitely one thing i am aggressively not fond of due to their overuse, but depending on how it's played, how the vocalist sounds, what the song is about may change my mind. but on most part, naw thank you. (looks at lutes in medieval and renaissance music) you're on thin ice.

edit: grabbing my tag novel from the previous post:

#i make playlists to listen to while i draw#i don't make them for some rando to try to get a read on my OCs asfdsag#that and idk i listen to mostly instrumental music#or songs with nonsensical lyrics#music to me is about The Vibes and not so much the meaning#if I was to find a perfect song to describe a character of mine it'd be weird because that is not how i listen to music#music#so yeah it's unlikely i'll try to make mixtapes anytime soon#oh yeah there's also the fact of like. the genres i like may not mesh with someone else's tastes#i ramble

[tickfleato]

the spotify app on my phone is a little bit broken so i cant do spotify wrapped, but i CAN see my wrapped playlist on the desktop app and a good like 50% of the songs on it are by king gizzard and the lizard wizard so i think i know who my top artist is

[drzone]

You all need to listen to moog. NOW!!!!!

[mariocki]

La fiancée de Dracula (Dracula's Fiancee, 2002)

"A figure in white. She was moving."

"Alive?"

"She's dead, but retains a semblance of life, thanks to him."

"He loves her that much?"

"Passionately."

[alyallow]

Still from the Animated Sequence done by Fizzy Eye/London in the feature-length documentary MOOG (2004) - a film on synthesizer pioneer Bob Moog. Directed by Hans Fjellestad and Produced by Ryan Page & Hans Fjellestad. Exec Produced by Gary Hustwit.