- Performer: Dorothy Collins
- Composer: Raymond Scott
- Audio CD (July 11 2000)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Import, Best of
- Label: Basta
- ASIN: B00004SYD6
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Manhattan Research, Inc. Copyright | |||
| 2. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. (Instrumental, Take 4) | |||
| 3. Bendix 1: 'The Tomorrow People' | |||
| 4. Lightworks | |||
| 5. The Bass-Line Generator | |||
| 6. 'Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night!' | |||
| 7. 'B.C. 1675' (The 'Gillette' Conga Drum Jingle) | |||
| 8. Vim | |||
| 9. Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful (Intrumental) | |||
| 10. Sprite: 'Melonball Bounce' (Instrumental) | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Ohio Plus | |||
| 2. 'In The Hall Of The Mountain Queen' | |||
| 3. General Motors: Futurama | |||
| 4. 'Portofino' 2 | |||
| 5. 'The Wild Piece' (a.k.a. 'String Piece') | |||
| 6. 'Take Me To Your Violin Teacher' | |||
| 7. 'Ripples' (Original Soundtrack) | |||
| 8. Cyclic Bit | |||
| 9. 'Ripples' (Montage) | |||
| 10. The Wing Thing | |||
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Product Description
From Amazon.com
The goofy chamber jazz of bandleader Raymond Scott lent itself perfectly to cartoon soundtracks ("Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals," anyone?), but, at heart, Scott was a serious composer. His electronic-music forays have been previously documented (the three volumes of Soothing Sounds for Baby), but nothing captures his diverse sound creations as well as Manhattan Research Inc. This previously unreleased two-CD collection features Scott's handmade electronics, top-secret creations he'd use to create ambient-sounding commercial jingles, as well as the odd soundtrack with budding filmmaker/Muppeter Jim Henson. Scott was impossibly ahead of his time: a snippet for "Baltimore Gas & Electric Co." could have been written by Terry Riley; "Limbo: The Organized Mind" is a hint at musique concrete; and 1960's "In the Hall of the Mountain Queen" could easily fit on an Aphex Twin disc. Gorgeous packaging, previously unreleased photos, and liner notes by Irwin Chusid, Robert Moog, and others make this a must for fans of electronic music. --Jason Verlinde
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The Future Yesterday,
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This review is from: Manhattan Research, Inc. (Audio CD)
This is more than 2 cds worth of the most charming, fun, electronically generated music you are ever likely to hear and a lot more. It is also a lavish 142 page history of Scott and his amazing adventures in music and sound, illustrated with beautiful, sometimes unbelievable photos. It is a historical document of Scott's part in the evolution in electronic music and it is a beautiful object.The music is playful, inventive and often beautiful, as is Portifino or Scott's short take on Cole Porter's Night and Day. Scott's ad jingles for Sprite, Baltimore Gas & Electric Company and Bufferin (with a young pre-Muppets Jim Henson) are both inspired and crazy. There is the makings of a great film here but now be satisfied with and wonder at the amazing sounds contained within.
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Raymond Scott History Lesson and Look to the Future,
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This review is from: Manhattan Research, Inc. (Audio CD)
Could this man be from the future? He certainly pushed the envelope with ALL his music. From the musical madness generated by his small groups to the unusual music to sooth babies in the 1950s to this illimitable collection of futuristic music/advertisements, Raymond continues to prove that he was a sheer genius with a vision singularly lacking from 99% of the other composers of his day. Personally I cannot tell if this package is a history book with an accopmanying CD or the other way around. In either case it is a release worth owning simply for the fact that it is a precurser for what was to come musically in our society. I was stunned when I first listened to it...the recordings simply could not have been from the era that they were. Raymond Scott owned the musical crystal ball hands down.
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How to knock a listener over...,
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This review is from: Manhattan Research, Inc. (Audio CD)
If the listener doesn't like electronics and machinery, he or she will be knocked over by the sheer volume of information and fotos in this package, and be able to come to rest listening to the contents of the CD's. If he or she DOES like this part of it, sitting down BEFORE starting to read the "booklet" is recommandable too. One would say that, probably due to the "paranoia" of Scott, being afraid of having his ideas and inventions stolen and therefore never having published anything, he has always been out of sight when the history of elctronic music was discussed: now we'll all be glad to give him his place amongst Moog, Buchla and others. Oh, and the sheer sound quality of those tapes, some of which are over 40 years old... Yeehaaaaaaa!
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