#236 The Vocoder & Opinions on Blitzen Trapper and Sleigh Bells

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4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2010

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Jim and Greg are joined by Dave Tompkins, author of How to Wreck a Nice Beach, a history of the vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop. Tompkins reveals the instrument’s secret military past and funk roots.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.
0:27.0	Before it became an instrument of popular music it was a tool of military
0:36.9	espionage we trace the history of the vocoder from Winston Churchill to Africa
0:41.2	Bambada. Plus we have reviews of new albums by the experimental Fockeys Blitzen Trapper and
0:46.7	electronic rockers, sleigh bells.
0:49.2	I'm Jim Deregatus of Vocalo.org.
0:51.6	And I'm Greg Cod of the Chicago Tribune. Stay tuned for that and more. Today on Sound
0:55.9	opinions. From W be Z Chicago and American public media, you're listening to sound opinions, and it's
1:05.8	time now to welcome our newest affiliate.
1:08.0	Yes, indeed, Jim. It is time to welcome W.I.H.F.M. in Beautiful Ithaca, New York. I was born in upstate New York as you well known.
1:16.5	So it's a funness for that area you have. And whenever we welcome a new station to the
1:20.2	sound opinions fold, we like to play a piece of music associated with that area
1:24.5	uh... we're gonna dig deep for this one
1:26.2	lorns hammond one of the great inventors of the twentieth century actually
1:29.9	went to school at cornell university Ithaca, New York.
1:33.6	Mr. Lorenz-Hamond graduated there in 1916
1:37.0	with an honors degree in mechanical engineering
1:39.4	soon after he created what I think
1:41.1	is his greatest invention, certainly his greatest contribution to popular
1:44.0	music.
1:45.0	An electric organ later became known as the Hammond organ.
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