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Manhattan Research Inc. (CD)

By: Raymond Scott (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Manhattan Research Inc. (CD) Album By Raymond Scott (Artist)
1   Manhattan Research Inc. Copyright
2   Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. - (take 4, TRUE instrumental)
3   Bendix 1: The Tomorrow People
4   Lightworks
5   Bass-Line Generator, The
6   Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night!
7   B.C. 1675
8   VIM
9   Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful - (TRUE instrumental)
10   Sprite: Melonball Bounce - (TRUE instrumental)
11   Sprite: Melonball Bounce
12   Wheels That Go
13   Limbo: The Organized Mind
14   Portofino - (version 1)
15   Country Fair
16   Lady Gaylord
17   Good Air - (take 7)
18   IBM MT/ST: The Paperwork Explosion
19   Domino
20   Super Cheer
21   Cheer: Revision 3
22   Twilight In Turkey
23   Medley:: Raymond Scott Quote / Vicks: Medicated Cough Drops
24   Vicks: Formula 44
25   Auto-Lite: Spark Plugs
26   Nescafe
27   Awake
28   Backwards Overload
29   Bufferin: Memories - (original version)
30   Bandito The Bongo Artist
31   Night And Day
32   Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. (395)
33   K2r
34   IBM Probe
35   GMGM 1A
36   Rhythm Modulator, The
 
DISC 2 for Manhattan Research Inc. (CD) Album By Raymond Scott (Artist)
1   Ohio Plus
2   In The Hall Of The Mountain Queen
3   General Motors: Futurama
4   Portofino - (version 2)
5   Wild Piece, The
6   Ripples
7   Cyclic Bit
8   Ripples (Montage)
9   Wing Thing, The
10   Country Fair - (TRUE instrumental)
11   Cindy Electronium
12   Don't Beat Your Wife Every Night! - (TRUE instrumental)
13   Hostess: Twinkies
14   Hostess: Twinkies - (TRUE instrumental)
15   Ohio Bell: Thermo Fax
16   Pygmy Taxi Corporation, The
17   Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. - (take 1, announce copy)
18   Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. - (full version)
19   Lightworks - (slow version)
20   Paperwork Explosion, The - (TRUE instrumental)
21   Auto-Lite: Ford Family
22   Auto-Lite: Ford Family - (TRUE instrumental)
23   Raymond Scott Quote
24   Auto-Lite: Wheels
25   Bufferin: Memories - (demo version)
26   Space Mystery (Montage)
27   Toy Trumpet, The
28   Backward Bleeps
29   Raymond Scott Quote / Auto-Lite: Sta-Ful
30   Lightworks - (alternate instrumental version)
31   When Will It End?
32   Bendix 2: The Tomorrow People
33   Electronic Audio Logos, Inc.
 
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Review

Spin (9/00, p.185) - "...69 love songs to commerce and the space age....The music is both archaic and 'tres moderne'..."
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..."
Mojo (Publisher) (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..."

Title Note

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.

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