This album represents the first solo outing by Gershon Kingsley, whose previous collaborations with Jean-Jacques Perrey brought electronic music into the forefront. The album cover is certainly an attention-getter, but listening to the music contained on this CD is a fun trip into how electronic music, as we know it, started. Kingsley is best known for penning the catchy tune, "Popcorn", that has been covered by such groups as Hot Butter and others. This tune, in its original form, appears on this disc. It's one of those tunes that starts out softly and builds as it goes. (Kingsley did release a subsequent album, also called "Popcorn", with a version of the tune more like the popular version we all know.)
Other notable tracks on this disc are his take on "Twinkle Twinkle", which is probably the most gimmicky track on the disc. It's all in fun, and it makes this nursery rhyme sparkle. "Sunset Sound" brings up images of a sunrise over a northern industrial town in the midwest. Really, this album needs to be heard. There are no clunkers here. Well, there is one. The sound on this disc seems to be a bit lackluster, compared to the vinyl LP, which I also have. This is why I give this CD only four stars. Whoever did the remastering could have done a better job on preserving the dynamics of the vinyl.
I also encourage you to look for "The Out Sound From Way In", which features the two albums on which Kingsley collaborated with Jean-Jacques Perrey, as well as two of Perrey's solo efforts. You won't regret it at all.