[.ca] In Sound From Way Out

the future is now:
I just discovered this the other day and am kicking myself for leaving it off my "1966: The Best Year In Music?" list. This album provides further evidence to support my hypothesis. Unlike more "serious" explorations of the electronic music genre, "The In Sound From Way Out" uses standard guitars, bass guitars, drums, percussion, and other instruments to augment the blips and bloops. What you get is a great exotica-type album full of silly 60's pop genius. This is the hyperactive, electronic counterpart to Serge Gainsbourg's smoke-filled den/pervert aesthetic. You'll find yourself floating in a cinema full of colored gels and jump-cuts. It's a party that's all red lights and velvet, plus cookies and ice cream. Childish and sophisticated. Groovy, baby. Especially recommended for fans of Stereolab, Pizzicato Five, Raymond Scott, Cornelius, the Ultra-Lounge series, Barbarella, etc. The downside: it's only about 26 minutes long.

moog baby moog:
someone tried to turn me on to moog music way back in the 70s & i thought it was just the stupidest stuff i had ever heard in my entire life. give me disco, or give me death! then i recently heard some cuts from this album on april winchell's show (kfi 640 am) & i thought it was just the coolest stuff i had ever heard in my entire life. give me moog, or give me death! down with disco, up with the moog-meisters! (it's hard for me to believe that i could have such different reactions to the same dang stuff? & now, of course, i HATE disco! -- having grown out of it a long, LoNg, LONG time ago. oh, how i date myself!) my absolute favorite cut on this album is the one with all the babies cooing: Countdown At 6 -- it's so cute! my only complaint about this album is that it's WAY! TOO! SHORT!

Way Out and Way Back!:
I remember seeing Kingsley and Perrey on "The Mike Douglas Show" in the 1960s, performing this music with an impish, professorial air. The vivid, cartoonish style made it a natural for local television kid shows. In Tulsa, it was used on "Mr. Zing and Tuffy" and "Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp". This CD will send you Way Out and Way Back!

Hello, kidhood! I love this album, but here's a better buy::
I also loved the off-the-wall, electronic magic of this album on Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp in Tulsa, but cannot recommend this album to buy when such a superior value exists elsewhere on this site. Click "all albums by Perrey and Kingsley" over at the left, then select "The Essential Perrey and Kingsley", which contains this entire album, plus another 14 ear-tickling tracks, for only 72 cents more. That's the album I'm ordering now.

A Trip Back...From Way Out:
All you need is this CD, a studio full of kids, a truckload of toys, and you've got all you need to do your own version of the 1960's kiddy-TV show, "Wonderama." Lord knows, this album brought back memories of being a PopTart-fueled youngster planted in front of the idiot box on a 1960-70 suburban NY living room rug, watching Sonny Fox/Bob McAllister. I dare you not to recognize at least *one* song on this album. TV stations often used snippets as the audio portion of a "bumper" (what you see on tv between when a progam cuts to commercial and when the commercial begins). If, however, you are not into 60's style experimental electronic music, you might find yourself saying, "Oh my God, I thought I'd *finally* forgotten that song twenty years ago! " The rest of us however, will find ourselves wearing a wistful, nostalgic smile.

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