Kid Baltan and Tom Dissevelt 1959

[pedobear123]

weak drop, 3/10 AT BEST

[vinsheep]

world first "looping" from tracks! beat that ableton and traktor haha 

[OneQuest1]

GENIUS

[AIKevorkian]

This is what I picture working in Heaven would be like!

[georgelee43211]

those loops sound psychedelic.

[JHFillmoreEast]

now we have :P a smal falt pc jezus technolagy goes fast

[barongreenstash]

or since there is 2 of them,double Dutch

[otterboi26]

WOW, this is amazing. Now a days all you have to do is turn on your computer and all the sounds are there at your disposal. Great pioneers

[sabalouie2000]

True Genius.

Imagine the weight of all that equitment and the time it took to set -up!!

AWSOME.

Thanx 4 this post!

[qarapalida]

First Dj

[andrewjshepherd]

WOW!! Us, songwriters these days are having it easy with loop pedals and stuff..

[Lasstpak]

Gruwelijk! 

[Toggyuri]

zseniális



[buddygunz]

I wonder where they made that music. I was at awakenings held in the 'click tower' in Eindhoven. Fairly trippy to think of those guys making that fucked up music 50 years ago. What do they as 80 year olds think now.

[beatthedrum7]

@buddygunz it's called the clock tower, they made this music in one of the other buildings on the same terrain.

[Atta67]

Genius ones.

[syntaxiko]

Insanely awesome

[krumplile]

those guys were simply genius!

[Darcy261]

1:32 Here is this loop that is recorded on a tape recorder and I will show you how this sound is repeated

1:48 And we have the possibility to duplicate the sound we just heard and adding it by this machine

2:11  Besides electric sounds we can record natural sounds and cutting a loop of it

2:17 Of this I will show you some examples

2:20 I have here a sound of a alarm clock a foot step a wriggeling like figure and a tower clock

[Darcy261]

1:00 I want to show you this while this magneto phone is running by rewinding and fast forwarding of the tape

1:08  This way the pitch of this accord changes

1:10 I have recorded this on the tape recorder and by cutting a little piece of it also by indication of the composer of course and by joining the ends together you get a loop

1:26 And I can play back this loop on a magneto phone so this sound will be repeated

[Darcy261]

Translation from dutch:

0:13 The tone you can hear comes from one of the twelve boxes you can see here and it is possible to get more tones from the other boxes, in order to form accords. I can show this now.

0:31 Here a low tone, here a high tone, and here an even higher tone.

0:37 This accord consisting of 4 tones I have recorded on a tape recorder

0:43 And I think I have enough, so I can switch this off

0:50 The composer indicates the way to edit the accord

[TiborJumper]

That's some spacing stuff, i've got the album with some songs like that, it's just amazing what kind of sound you can create with all these simple methods.

[btown2011]

look at all the magnetophons.

[btown2011]

this would be heaven for me!

[Paulus002]

Popular Electronics

[hajkah]

where is the cubase and reason?

[tek1doo]

2:04 what a delayed effect

[d1esl0winnit]

well done for sharing this piece of history from the originators of the blueprint for electronica....

[71tamas]

i think the list of their live concerts is pretty short :) great respect to this men to produce great music using this rudimentary equipment

[reactor808]

they already had everything for a great music session even though it's 1959:

loops on tapes, mixers with faders, trippy delay fx and good weed smoked in the studio :D

[ALXXMaXX]

Translation please?

[schreu26]

Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan were Dutch. Eindhoven is in The Netherlands. The language they are speaking is Dutch (Nederlands),

[GozoTeen]

Philips is a dutch company

[djoerd01]

@schreu26 Ach wat! ;-)

[Lalli1987]

Colossal, now what language is this?

[terrestial63]

Thank you!!!!

[smbdy555]

...The Pioneers of electronic music.

Thank YOU, Gentlemen.

Thank You very much.

 :D

[schreu26]

It was called "Song of the Second Moon".

This and other fascinating material by Baltan/Raaijmakers/Dissevelt was rereleased in 2004 on the fantastic 4-cd set "POPULAR ELECTRONICS", on Basta.

[btown2011]

@schreu26 was the video also released do you mean?

[kdegru]

This is fantastic to see the two gentlemen that made a recording I have admired since childhood. Anyone remember the opening theme music to WOR TVs, was it Science Fiction Theater? This was in the early to mid 1960's. I think the name of the song on that LP I have is Song of the Moon Maid. Thank you for your very much appreciated post.

[imrehe123]

great musicians!!!!!!!!