French moog composer dies
mainJean-Jacques Perrey, an early electronics composer, died on Friday in Lausanne, Switzerland, at 87.
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Preparing a similar bon mot for your demise,
Tasteless.
Probably the single most commercially successful electronic composer ever, with a string of chart hits in the 60s. If nothing else, his music for Disney’s Main Street guarantees him a niche in a certain kind of history. Champion of the Ondioline; God knows, it needed one.