Jean-Jacques Perrey's EVA video

In the comments after my post about the MOOG-laden TV commercial for Schaefer Beer, TORLEY points us to this fantastic video for pioneering electronic musician Jean-Jacques Perrey's catchy tune "EVA." It opens with a sample of Timothy Leary. I love Perrey's grin.

[#1 posted by Rob Beschizza, April 6, 2009 10:56 AM]

For years I had this tune in my head without every knowing what it was from. Thanks, internet!

[#2 posted by Richard Metzger, April 6, 2009 11:11 AM]

David,

This is a Fatboy Slim remix of EVA. It's a ridiculous story, but a few years ago I compiled a CD called "The Best of Moog" that came out on a Sony label and the company that EVA was licensed from (Lawrence Welk Music!) offered us that FBS remix, too. It got stuck on at the end and the first time I had the mastered CD in my possession, I smoked up before I QC'd it for final approval. The CD ends (or so I expected). There is a pause and then I started hearing Timothy Leary speaking and I was momentarily flummoxed wondering if my stereo was being animated by Tim's spirit or if someone was playing a trick on me or what it was before I remembered, "Oh yeah, it's that Fatboy Slim remix."

[#3 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 11:35 AM]

Yeah that's definitely a remix!

Here's a fun live performance of the original track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddqfQtaFVrc

Or, my personal favorite version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQQeUNaZtc

=Tones=

[#4 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 12:06 PM]

I had that Best of Moog cd-- nice job. ("Had"-- it was permanently borrowed by so-called friend.) And yes-- Welk Music Group owns the Vanguard Catalog: a business named after the ultimate square owns the rights to all those folk/blues/jazz records, (including at least one Country Joe & the Fish LP.)

[#5 posted by Torley, April 6, 2009 2:37 PM]

Glad ya fancied this, David!

JJP is sure a hip guy for, well, a senior citizen. He also collaborated with Luke Vibert to bring you this grooviness!

@Richard Metzger A GREAT story.

[#6 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 3:44 PM]

This song has always reminded me of the theme from Futurama. Glad to be reminded that this song exists, and now I'm going to go watch Futurama!

[#7 posted by Anonymous, April 6, 2009 4:59 PM]

This song (or this remix?) was used a few years ago in a TV commercial for a constipation medication. I forgot the name of the drug, but the commercial featured a bunch of women showing their stomachs. I always thought it was a rather catchy tune, now I know its source.

[#8 posted by FutureNerd, April 6, 2009 8:33 PM]

#5 Torley-- I think the grooviness you link has Vibert playing samples of the 1966 Perrey/Kingsley LP The In Sound From Way Out, which was already composed of samples, only on spliced analog tape.

Heh, my captcha was "curious development."