The name of the game is "Lightworks!"
1. click on this here link
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. click to listen to track four, called Lightworks
4. Freak Out.
My husband and I were driving through Santa Monica when this really trippy song came one. We couldn't figure out if it was a joke, an older song remixed, or what.
Then thankfully, my husband figured it out.
2. scroll to the bottom of the page
3. click to listen to track four, called Lightworks
4. Freak Out.
My husband and I were driving through Santa Monica when this really trippy song came one. We couldn't figure out if it was a joke, an older song remixed, or what.
Then thankfully, my husband figured it out.
"...Most recently, Dee released his own solo album titled Donuts -- which he wrote and recorded while in and out of the hospital. The album, released to the public only three days before his passing, features a fantastic cover/remix of Raymond Scott's classic electronic tune, "Lightworks."
Turns out that Raymond Scott was an electronic music pioneer who worked closely with Robert Moog (of the synthesizer fame). And light works was a jingle for some kind of electronic board game in the 50s.
posted by Anonymous at 12:49 PM
2 Comments:
Not a board game. The 'Lightworks' in the Raymond Scott jingle refers to a line of cosmetics from the late 50s/early 60s featuring eye shadow, blush and lipstick.
This is indeed one of the trippiest songs I've ever heard, and I'm dead-glad I found it on Donuts, one of the strangest compilations of sounds ever put together. There are many songs that start out in a mildly predictable way then—CRACK!—some weird "In Search Of" synth zooms in and the mood is completely altered. "Lightworks" starts out creepy enough, with the Bendix guy in a steel drum's hollow voice, then it bounces up to a jingle, then gets downright sinister with the flying synth to no-tune-land and the crackly tin foil coupled with it-came-from-the-bottom-of-the-sea sonar ping percussion.
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