The name JEAN JACQUES PERREY should be immediately familiar to electronic music fans, particularly those who are aware of the Moog synthesizer's golden age of the 1960s and '70s, when Moog synthesizer records were plentiful in record stores...

But unlike most of those LPs -- which usually covered other artists' tunes from the Beatles to Bacharach to Bach and beyond -- Perrey's albums were mostly filled with catchy, incredibly happy original tunes showcasing Perrey's wacky musical sense of humor. From 1966 to 1970, Perrey released four LPs for Vanguard -- two with arranger Kingsley, and two by himself as a solo artist. In addition to their records for Vanguard, during the early '60s, Perrey and Kingsley also created many commercials for radio and television. Around 1970, Perrey's contract with Vanguard ended, and he returned home to France. Back in his native France, Perrey recorded six LPs of electronic background music for the French Montparnasse 2000 label, which are now very rare and immensely collectible...

For the next 23 years, Perrey lived in virtual obscurity in France. It seemed that the musical world had forgotten the inventive Frenchman. But Perrey's life out of the public eye changed suddenly in 1993 when RE/Search Publications produced its first Incredibly Strange Music book. A whole new generation of young musicians and modern music lovers, were discovering Perrey's amazing music. Many young artists began sampling Perrey's records like crazy, and dance remix whiz-kid Fatboy Slim (a.k.a. Norman Cook) even made an international hit of Perrey's tune "E.V.A.," with his souped-up dance remix. It was through the RE/Search book that a young French musician named David Chazam became aware of Perrey's music. So when Chazam became fascinated with Perrey's music, he sent a cassette of some of his own electronic music to Perrey, and proposed that they collaborate on an album. Perrey's reply was positive and said simply "When, where and how?" Perrey joined Chazam in the studio, bringing his prepared tape loops (digitally loaded into his Kurzweil synthesizer/sampler), but bringing no actual tunes to record. Instead, he arrived with what he calls "several cine-reels in my head."These "cine-reels," as Perrey calls them, were little movies -- imaginary pictures and conceptual ideas that Perrey wanted to orchestrate with music. He would describe the feel of the music needed, and Chazam would come up with an appropriate rhythm track.

David Chazam: "This album was produced by a person who loves Jean Jacques' music -- me! I wanted to present his music with some nice modern technical tricks, but I also tried to recreate the classic analog sound of his Vanguard recordings. I wanted to help him create an album that I hoped would be timeless, and wouldn't sound dated many years from now."

Jean Jacques Perrey's music for Eclektronics is a perfect blend of the style of his classic '60s melodies blended with more modern, groove-oriented samples and production techniques.