Member Since: 12/7/2005
Band Website: RaymondScott.com
Band Members:
RAYMOND SCOTT's bands and collaborators included: Ben Webster, Bunny Berigan, MOOG Synthesizer inventor Bob Moog , Charlie Shavers, Milt Hinton, Kenny Burrell, Eddie Costa, Johnny Williams (father of famous movie composer John Williams), Cozy Cole, MUPPETS-creator Jim Henson, Jean "Toots" Thielemans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, MOTOWN president Berry Gordy, Sam "The Man" Taylor, "Wild" Bill Davis, Elvin Jones, and many, many others...
Sounds Like:
RAYMOND SCOTT's 1930s music was adapted into countless classic LOONEY TUNES cartoons, so it sounds like crazy cartoon soundtracks...
RAYMOND SCOTT's electronic music from the 1950s and '60s sounds like APHEX TWIN, Glitch-Core, early KRAFTWERK, and BRIAN ENO's ambient works...
"The music of musician, bandleader, composer, and inventor, Raymond Scott sounds like nothing so much as the future."
--Peter Buck, guitarist, R.E.M.
"Raymond Scott's musical genius should not be overlooked."
--John Flansburgh,
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
"Raymond Scott was a slamming composer! I'd heard some of these performances lifted and looped by contemporary artists, like Soul Coughing, but never knew the source. Raymond Scott's band was a monster -- did these guys invent prog? Raymond Scott wows me!"
--Pat Mastelotto,
KING CRIMSON
"What can you say about a man who inspired cartoon melodies and bebop, invented Frank Zappa and electronic music, and still found time to work for Motown?"
--Andy Partridge, songwriter & leader of XTC
"I dont know where to begin or what to say. What a giant. If you look at the time-line of Raymond Scott's life, its as if the guy never slept. We like that. A lot of people know his music from all those cartoons. But past that, he helped shape music as we know it in the present day. It's those front-line types that go into uncharted areas, and pave the way for others. Always go to the source, sources like Raymond Scott."
--HENRY ROLLINS, Black Flag, Rollins Band
"The compositions of Raymond Scott are etched, it seems, into the fabric of 20th century culture like some strand of DNA sequence coding our collective memory for future mutations. F*cking brilliant. Repetitive, with a beat pulse. I look to Raymond Scott as one of the originators of a techno aesthetic."
--Paul D. Miller, a.k.a.
DJ SPOOKY that Subliminal Kid
"Being introduced to the music of Raymond Scott was like being given the name of a composer I feel I have heard my whole life, who until now was nameless. Clearly he is a major American composer."
--David Harrington, leader of the KRONOS QUARTET
"As for millions of other kids raised on Bugs and Daffy, Raymond Scott's wonderful idiosyncratic music seeped into my childhood subconscious and never left. It became the abstract soundtrack to my dreams."
--David J, BAUHAUS / Love And Rockets
"MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a brilliant collection of Raymond Scott's electronic work. I love the packaging, and the interviews are incredibly interesting and informative."
--Adrian Utley, PORTISHEAD
"I think MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of my favorite releases ever! And that's saying something, as I'm a complete music junkie."
--Richard D. James,
APHEX TWIN
"I rate Raymond Scott as one of the greatest music technology innovators the 20th century. Many musicians on the charts today are using his ideas fairly directly. His vision was so wide, that today it is impossible to turn on a piece of equipment in your studio without automatically issuing a benediction to the spirit of Raymond Scott."
--Matt Black, DJ FOOD, COLDCUT
"The MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. package is perfect -- and the music is too perfect!"
--Konishi, PIZZICATO FIVE
"Raymond Scott's great work left many repercussions in various fields relating to sound. Scientific, futuristic, novel, as well as humorous and dreamlike. Mad, but the kind of mad I aspire to be. Raymond Scott truly was ahead of his time."
--CORNELIUS
"Wow wow WOW. It is certainly stunning. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a monsterpiece. I'm still trying to digest it!"
--Jim Thirlwell, FOETUS
"Whaaaaat?? This is from the fifties and sixties? I'm trying to achieve something like this now! Raymond Scott belongs to the phalanx of unique people like Les Paul, Oscar Sala, and Leon Theremin, to whom we owe so much in developing our own musical identity today. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of the best CD presentations I have ever had my hands on."
--Holger Czukay, CAN
"The tireless dedication and uncompromising perfectionism of producers Gert-Jan Blom and Jeff Winner is evident in every detail of this wonderful collection. From the astonishing sounds to the beautiful packaging, MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is an essential release of pioneer electronica, adding yet another page to the ever-growing legacy of American maverick Raymond Scott."
--JOHN ZORN
"Fabulous! MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of the most amazing CD packages I've ever seen. I've been listening constantly, and I've read the whole book several times. It's SO inspiring. Scott's electronic instruments have an incredibly organic sound to them."
--Eric Harris,
OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL
"Raymond Scott was a true genius, deserving to be classified among the great pioneers of electronic music. He recorded with his own instruments, and did his own composing. I am amazed by the versatility of his talent, creativity, originality, and imagination. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a work of art. BRAVO!"
--JEAN JACQUES PERREY
"Raymond Scott was the first! He foresaw the use of sequencers, and the use of electronic oscillators, to make sounds. These were the watershed uses of electronic circuitry. His recordings don't sound as weird anymore -- they sound similar to what artists are doing today."
-- BOB MOOG , inventor of Moog Synthesizers