Электрондық музыканың алғашқы төңкерісі: Перрей мен Кингсли дуэті

Perrey and Kingsley (known also as "Perrey & Kingsley" or "Perrey Kingsley") was an electronic music duo made up of French composer Jean Jacques Perrey and German American composer Gershon Kingsley. The duo lasted from 1965 to 1967 and both are considered pioneers of electronic music. They released under Vanguard Records two studio albums The In Sound From Way Out! and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations. They also were among the first artists to incorporate the Moog synthesizer, prior to the successful 1968 release, Switched On Bach by Wendy Carlos.

Gershon Kingsley was a German American Vanguard Records arranger since 1964, he fled Nazi Germany to reach then Mandatory Palestine (present day Israel) a few days before Kristallnacht in 1938. After the World War II he came to Los Angeles in 1946, where he studied at the Conservatory of Music, adopted the pseudonym Gershon in tribute to the son of Moses and worked in Broadway productions. Jean Jacques Perrey was a French accordion player and medical student who abandoned his studies after meeting Georges Jenny, the inventor of the Ondioline that hired Perrey as a salesman in the late 1950s. At the Studio of Contemporary Music Research in France, Perrey met Pierre Schaeffer, who had pioneered the avant garde sound art form known as musique concrète. Thereafter, Perrey began to experiment with tape manipulation. Perrey and Kingsley met in 1964 at the Carroll Music Service led by Carroll Bratman in New York City. Perrey signed a contract with Vanguard Records and their first recording for the label was "The Little Man From Mars" (included in the 1966 album, The In Sound From Way Out!). The two spent 275 hours producing and recording the album, Perrey also played Ondioline, provided musique concrète "rhythmic patterns", and mixed his tape loops and "inventive melodies" with Kingsley's arrangements and instrumentation. The "baby cooing" sound clip used in "Countdown At 6" was extracted from Authentic Sound Effects Volume 8 (1964), later that same sound would be used by Aaliyah in her 1998 single, "Are You That Somebody?". "Barnyard In Orbit" composed by Perrey and Sam Fiedel for the library album Musique Electronique du Cosmos (1962) was reworked for this album. The artwork was designed by American painter Jules Halfant. The In Sound From Way Out! was released on Vanguard label in 1966. "Visa To The Stars", co written by Angelo Badalamenti (under the pseudonym "Andy Badale") was released as promotional single in March 1967 with "Spooks In Space" as B side. In his album review, Billboard stated that the "recording of electronic pop music created by Gershon Kingsley and Jean Jacques Perrey is so far out it may become in." In that same year they performed on the American game show "I've Got a Secret" in which Perrey imitated four orchestral instruments with the Ondioline, and then played with Kingsley one of the album tracks ("Spooks In Space", an electronic version of Saint Saëns's Danse macabre).

For the second studio album Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music From Way Out, the duo incorporated the Moog synthesizer, with added special effects. It was played together with the Ondioline and is the second to be sold. Kaleidoscopic Vibrations was released on Vanguard label in 1967. "The Savers" was released as single in December 9, 1967 with "Piooners Of The Stars" as the B side. "Piooners Of The Stars" co written also by Badale had an very old version that was included in the 2017 compilation album titled Jean Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline. Some outlets such as AllMusic or NTS Radio cited the influence that Joe Meek style had on Badale's collaborations with the duo. Gershon Kingsley released in 1969 the solo studio album Music to Moog By on Audio Fidelity Records label. It included the original version of Popcorn, which would later reach a great popularity and success with the version of Hot Butter in 1972. In later years, several compilation albums of his work were released. In 1975, compilation album The Essential Perrey & Kingsley was released, the following year it was described by Keyboard magazine as an "a fine novelty album: one tires of it after four or five cuts, but in the meantime one is treated to an almost bewildering variety of silly synthesizer sounds." In 2001, a triple CD entitled The Out Sound From Way In! was released, which compiles four Perrey albums, two as a duet and solo, plus seven remixes of Perrey and Kingsley's work, including two remixes from the Moog Indigo song, "E. V. A." by Fatboy Slim and five by Eurotrash.

Some tracks by Perrey and Kingsley were licensed for radio and television commercials, the final track from The In Sound From Way Out!, "Visa To The Stars" was used in a commercial for the Esso oil company. In 1968, "The Savers", from Kaleidoscopic Vibrations, won a Clio Award when it was used as the soundtrack for a No Cal diet soft drink commercial; later it would be used as opening theme from the American television game show The Joker's Wild since 1972 to 1975. Some tracks from The In Sound From Way Out! were used in Sesame Street and The Red Skelton Show. "Electronic Can Can" was the theme music for Wonderama, a Metromedia children program of 1970s. It also was sampled by Rock band The Beatles in his 1968, Christmas Record. A parody of the Saturday Night Live broadcast on October 23, 1976 and titled "Jeopardy! 1999" used the 1966 track "Unidentified Flying Object" as opening and closing theme. In 1996 the Beastie Boys released a compilation album with a cover inspired by his 1966 album and also used the same title. In 1997, the Alternative rock band Smash Mouth released Walkin' on the Sun, a single whose bassline and opening melody is based on the track "Swan's Splashdown".