This video has been a YouTube fave of mine for a while.
With T-Pain all over the radio these days, it's oddly fun to come across a reminder that there is nothing new under the sun.
I admit, I am a sucker for old audio equipment.
Be sure to watch the 1:51 mark.
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Didn't know Giorgio played around with it. I think Herbie Hancock was the best non-Roger Troutman user of the technology for that time period
I thought Stevie was the first to use it in soul music, but I might be wrong.
A german artist named Peter Thomas was the absolute first to do it, for a song that served as the theme to a 1960s German Science Fiction show.
All he did was do a countdown using a vocoder and then the song began.
If anyone finds out who the first soul artist was, please post it here.
In the meantime, yes, I admit, I am a fan of Moroder's and even talked to him once on the phone when I was trying to book him for a DJ gig here in LA (where he keeps a home).
Damn, that "Baby Blue" track of his sounds hot. Where can I pick that up on vinyl?
Daft Punk... eat your heart out.
Speaking of Stevie...
I saw him perform last night here in DC and he was using the vocorder for "Heard It Through The Grapevine" and "Higher Ground".
My favorite vocorder song is Hancock's "Thought It Was You". I'm not sure who first used it for soul.
It doesn't surprise me the Germans first used it given a few years later Kraftwerk would've dropped. Plus, it just seems like something a German SciFi show would have (thinking Sprockets(sp?) and other SNL skits of that ilk).
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