Like a Thai massage but better: this record really rubs me the right way! I discovered Dick Hyman (no, I'm not getting into any irony, on this blog we're all grown ups. Right?) via a Summertime recording* he did with Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen. I have to admit that, at the time, I had never heard of Hyman. How could I? The man only made over a 100 albums, wrote scores for a gazillion Woody Allen movies and played with some dead dude named Benny Goodman. So obviously The Melvin cannot be faulted.
Initially known as a Bebop kid, Hyman has both speed and swing. But Cypress Hill sampled this song for something else: the magic that Dick jammed out of his Moog synthesizer. Because 16 years before Hansjörg 'Giorgio' Moroder made blue love to Dr. Robert Moog's machine, 11 years before Kraftwerk recorded the iconic Autobahn, and 5 years before Walter - later Wendy - Carlos introduced the moog to the greater public with Switched on Bach, Hyman recorded Moon Gas (above). That is just WILD.
As I post this, Moon Gas only has 2576 clicks on Youtube. A disgrace! Let's get this number up amigo's, spread the Moog and spread the Dick!
As I post this, Moon Gas only has 2576 clicks on Youtube. A disgrace! Let's get this number up amigo's, spread the Moog and spread the Dick!
*Sadly deleted from Youtube, I'll try to get it up myself. Here's a version that is not too bad either.
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