Tag: Jean Jacques Perrey
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DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero
DJNoNo – Accordion Hero (Hisstory 2004-2020) by DJNoNo DJNoNo’s First Album – Accordion Hero! (well if you don’t count Ballroom as an album, it is more like mini-album or long EP…that will be posted after this for the full DJNo ‘experience’). 16 years in the making it covers the best and a little of the…
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RIP Gershon Kingsley
I missed the sad news about the death of Gershon Kingsley in the midst of my Xmas Panic™. 97 though, he had good innings, but with him and Perrey gone, it’s a whole era that has passed. Kingsley is most famous for Popcorn, the track that not-arguably-at-all kickstarted the whole synth boom – first it…
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RC 310: None / All / Planet / Space / Out / In / Music / Other
In Out In Out Space it all about, Lost stars are going out. Greta says Planet A or Planet B,it’s all in the music literally, None of my friends take these songs for real, All my friends already know how that feels,Happy I am, Daddi, 2000 lucky stars from home,Straight to hell boys but can…
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Jean Jacques Ondioline
In a follow up to the previous Jean Jacques Perrey memorial post, I’d never heard his album/piece “Prélude au Sommeil”. Ian Fondue posted this excellent list of the greatest electronic albums of the 1950’s and 1960’s (listeners to the podcast and mixes would already be familiar with many of these, I was quite surprised at…
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RIP Jean Jacques Perrey
Sad to hear of the death of Jean Jacques Perrey – synth and electronica pioneer, and creator of some very mad, funny and whimsical tunes. The curse of 2016 strikes again! Many don’t know I did two DJNoNo mashups using Perrey 10 years ago, probably because I made them for my old Multiply site and…