Track Listing
1. Manhattan Research Inc. Copyright
2. Baltimore Gas And Electric Co.
3. Bendix: The Tomorrow People
4. Lightworks
5. Bass Line Generator
6. Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night
7. BC 1675
8. Vim
9. Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful (instrumental)
10. Sprite: Melonball Bounce
11. Sprite: Melonball Bounce
12. Wheels That Go
13. Limbo: The Organized Mind
14. Portofino 1
15. County Fair
16. Lady Gaylord
17. Good Air
18. IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion
19. Domino
20. Super Cheer
21. Cheer: Revision 3
22. Twilight In Turkey
23. Vicks: Medicated Cough Drops
24. Vicks: Formula 44
25. Auto-Lite: Spark Plugs
26. Nescafe
27. Awake
28. Backwards Overload
29. Bufferin: Memories (original)
30. Bandito The Bongo Artist
31. Night And Day
32. Baltimore Gas And Electric Co.
33. K2r
34. IBM Probe
35. GMGM 1a
36. Rhythm Modulator
37. Ohio Plus
1. In The Hall Of The Mountain Queen
2. General Motors: Futurama
3. Portofino 2
4. Wild Piece (aka String Piece)
5. Take Me To Your Violin Teacher
6. Ripples (original soundtrack)
7. Cyclic Bit
8. Ripples (montage)
9. Wing Thing
10. County Fair (instrumental)
11. Cindy Electronium
12. Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night (instrumental)
13. Hostess: Twinkies
14. Hostess: Twinkies (instrumental)
15. Ohio Bell: Thermo Fax
16. Pygmy Taxi Corporation
17. Baltimore Gas And Electric Co. (announce copy take 1)
18. Baltimore Gas And Electric Co.
19. Lightworks (slow)
20. IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion (instrumental)
21. Auto-Lite: Ford Family
22. Auto-Lite: Ford Family (instrumental)
23. Auto-Lite: Wheels
24. Bufferin: Memories (demo)
25. Space Mystery (montage)
26. Toy Trumpet
27. Backward Beeps
28. Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful
29. Lightworks (instrumental)
30. When Will It End
31. Bendix 2: The Tomorrow People
32. Electronic Audio Logos Inc.
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 2 | | Producer: | Gert-Jan Blom, Jeff Winner | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | F-Minor; Baked Goods | | Recording Mode: | Mixed |
Album Notes
Includes a 144-page hard-bound book.MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. features electronic music, musique concrete experiments, advertising jingles, and soundtracks originally featured in Jim Henson's pre-Muppet films. The electronic sounds generated on this 2-CD set were made by Raymond Scott inventions including the Clavivox, Circle Machine, Bass Line Generator, Rhythm Modulator, Karloff, Bandito The Bongo Artist and Electronium. Personnel includes: Raymond Scott (spoken vocals, various electronic instruments); Dorothy Collins (vocals); Jim Henson (spoken vocals).Recorded between 1953 & 1969. Includes liner notes by Joel Chadabe, Jeff Winner, Karen Falk, Gert-Jan Blom and Irwin Chusid. Includes interviews with Robert Moog, Herb Deutsch, Alan Entenman and Thomas Rhea.Fascinated by the orderliness of sounds and machines, Raymond Scott composed and produced his innovative, eccentric, electronic music for commercials, films and his own amusement in the '50s and '60s. In assembling this overview of Scott's oeuvre, this lavish double album writes an important chapter in his life and career, defining his place in electronic music's history. The research that went into this project (in large part by Jeff Winner and Gert-Jan Blom), is lovingly mirrored in the remarkable 144-page full-color hardbound book that houses the two discs. There are rare photos and documents, numerous interviews and essays, and nothing is superfluous. The overall effect of the entire package is to create a portrait of a unique, creatively driven artist.
Editorial Reviews
...69 love songs to commerce and the space age....The music is both archaic and 'tres moderne'...
Spin (09/01/2000)
...Comprises generally abstract [electronic] experiments; space-age ad jingles...sonic experiments with tape loops and new instruments, or bleepy soundtracks for futuristic theme parks....A work of art in its own right...
Mojo (06/01/2000)
...Scott's flair for invention suited an age for car batteries, electric-powered toys and bright new chemical products. By using it to bring a gloss and sparkle to prevailing notions of progress, he helped drag electronic music out of the laboratory and into the home...
The Wire (06/01/2000)
...69 love songs to commerce and the space age....The music is both archaic and 'tres moderne'...Mojo (6/00, p.101) - ...Comprises generally abstract [electronic] experiments; space-age ad jingles...sonic experiments with tape loops and new instruments, or bleepy soundtracks for futuristic theme parks....A work of art in its own right...The Wire (6/00, p.57) - ...Scott's flair for invention suited an age for car batteries, electric-powered toys and bright new chemical products. By using it to bring a gloss and sparkle to prevailing notions of progress, he helped drag electronic music out of the laboratory and into the home...
Spin (09/01/2000)
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