The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey

The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey is the sixth studio album by French electronic musician Jean-Jacques Perrey, released in 1968 on the Vanguard Records label.

The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
Studio album by Jean-Jacques Perrey
Released	1968 (1968)
Genre	Electronic
Length	32:40
Label	Vanguard
Producer	Jean-Jacques Perrey
Jean-Jacques Perrey chronology
Musique Electronique du Cosmos (1962) The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey (1968) Electronic Music (1968)
Singles from The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey
"The Little Ships" Released: 1969 "The Minuet of the Robots" Released: 1973

The penultimate song "Four, Three, Two, One" was made together with Billy Mure. The final track "Gypsy in Rio" is a homage to Spike Jones.^[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]

Billboard described it as "a fun album, which admirably accomplished [Perrey's] stated purpose: to show that electronic music need not be esoteric. He utilizes tapes and various apparatus to accomplish this."^[3] For the 1996 album reissue, the US magazine described the album as "a campy and entertaining 1968 solo project of synthesized blurps, bleats and solid-state noodling".^[4]

AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger said that it "sounds like nothing so much as late-'60s instrumental 'mood' music albums as refracted through a slightly more ambitious, electronic lens. It's really not something you can put on again and again, but it's kind of fun nonetheless."^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mary France"	Jean-Jacques Perrey Andy Badale	2:49
2.	"The Little Ships"	Perrey	2:19
3.	"Island in Space"	Perrey Badale	2:44
4.	"The Mexican Cactus"	Perrey Eileen Davies	2:16
5.	"Porcupine Rock"	Perrey Davies	2:18
6.	"The Little Girl from Mars"	Perrey Stanley Krell	2:58
7.	"Mister James Bond"	Perrey Badale	3:03
8.	"Frere Jean Jacques"	Perrey	2:39
9.	"Brazilian Flower"	Perrey Davies	1:57
10.	"In the Heart of a Rose"	Perrey Davies	2:43
11.	"The Minuet of the Robots"	Harry Breuer Pat Prilly	2:18
12.	"Four, Three, Two, One"	Davies Prilly	2:34
13.	"Gypsy in Rio"	Perrey Breuer Gary Carol	2:02
Total length:			32:40

Personnel

Adapted from the album's sleeve notes.^[5]

• Jean-Jacques Perrey – instruments
• Ed Friedner – engineering and special effects
• Peter Bramley – artwork

Uses in other media

"The Minuet of the Robots" was the soundtrack for the Muppet feature "Big Bird's Dance" on December 14, 1969, in The Ed Sullivan Show, accompanied by arrangements made by the CBS Studio Orchestra.^[6] In 2010, "Brazilian Flower" was used in a soccer commercial.^[7] Two pieces from this album were used in short films by David Lewandowski: Going to the Store from 2011 used "The Little Ships",^[8] and Late for Meeting from 2013 used "The Mexican Cactus".^[9]