Packaged as a 3xLP set with 20 page booklet. Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961 - 1971 contains 62 previously unissued gems by the late Raymond Scott. Widely recognized for his music made for Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes, Scott was also producing beat-oriented proto-techno before the 1970s explosion of electronic music and rhythms on the pop charts. Many of the tracks on Three Willow Park feature hypnotic rhythm tracks played by Scott's Electronium - his unique invention created for Motown - which composed and performed music using programmed intelligence.
Willow Park Center was an industrial rental complex of offices and warehouses in a Long Island suburb. Following his 1965 marital breakup, Scott set up shop at WPC. He operated a musical lab researching, experimenting, testing, and measuring. He twirled knobs, flipped switches, and took notes. He installed equipment and machines, and used them to build new equipment and machines. This makeshift compound remained Scott's workspace and bedroom until 1971, when he decamped for L.A. to work for Berry Gordy at Motown.
A1 | This Is a Sound/Alka-Seltzer Effects #7 | 0:42 |
A2 | Dorothea | 3:49 |
A3 | Idea #35 | 2:05 |
A4 | Ohio Bell Mystery | 0:33 |
A5 | Domino Sugar Demo | 1:01 |
A6 | Auto-Lite Effects | 5:54 |
A7 | Cyclic Bit #1 | 0:08 |
A8 | It's a Little Complicated | 0:36 |
A9 | A Rhythm Ballet | 4:44 |
B1 | The Sound of Money Being Wasted | 0:17 |
B2 | Pygmy War Dance | 0:46 |
B3 | Cindy Alternate (Pop Rock) | 1:31 |
B4 | Nice Sound #3 | 0:13 |
B5 | Carribea | 3:46 |
B6 | Rhythm Sample #9 | 0:42 |
B7 | Ballet-Like Bits | 4:05 |
B8 | Cyclic Bit #2 | 0:23 |
B9 | Portofino (Theme) | 0:16 |
B10 | Rhythm Sample #2 | 0:30 |
B11 | 1st Class Electronium (Part 1) | 6:22 |
B12 | Limbo Effects Reel | 2:04 |
B13 | Mood Piece | 0:23 |
C1 | Thermofax Effects | 0:55 |
C2 | Ripples Effects #1 | 0:24 |
C3 | Electronium Movie Score | 10:21 |
C4 | In A 21st Century Drawing Room | 1:22 |
C5 | Nice Set-up #7 | 0:23 |
C6 | Idea #36 | 2:25 |
C7 | Cyclic Bit #3 | 0:36 |
C8 | Sparrows Pt. 1 | 2:30 |
C9 | Ripples Fugue | 1:02 |
D1 | The Toy Trumpet (demo #1) | 0:20 |
D2 | IBM Probe #3 | 1:09 |
D3 | Portofino #3 | 2:40 |
D4 | Sparrows Pt. 2 | 4:05 |
D5 | Cindy Flair Look Rhythm | 1:28 |
D6 | Super Cheer Instrumental | 0:22 |
D7 | Auto-lite Wheels Effects | 0:30 |
D8 | Tone Stepper | 1:15 |
D9 | Rhythm Sample #2 (Half-Speed Demo) | 1:11 |
D10 | 1st Class Electronium (Part 2) | 7:05 |
D11 | The Toy Trumpet (Demo #2) | 0:23 |
E1 | Rhythm Sample #5 | 0:19 |
E2 | Ripples Effects #2 | 0:19 |
E3 | Effect #6/Five-Five | 0:10 |
E4 | Rhythm Sample #6 | 0:28 |
E5 | Cat Concerto (Alley Cats) | 2:22 |
E6 | Toy Funk | 3:12 |
E7 | Iceberg Bit | 1:01 |
E8 | 2nd Class Electronium | 7:33 |
E9 | 500 | 0:13 |
E10 | Bee Swing | 2:50 |
E11 | Clavivox Demo Intro | 0:20 |
F1 | IBM Probe #4 | 0:37 |
F2 | Portofino #4 | 2:11 |
F3 | Night on a Calm Sea | 3:51 |
F4 | Ohio Bell Rhythm Track | 0:30 |
F5 | 1st Class Electronium (Part 3) | 6:38 |
F6 | Baltimore Gas & Electric Test | 1:14 |
F7 | Cindy Variations Pt. 1 | 1:11 |
F8 | Three Motown Electronium Adaptations (By Hoby Cook) | 4:40 |