

Blue Sky” and early hip-hop records like Jonzun Crew’s “Pac Jam” is at work in every cellphone on Earth. The same technology that brought us Electric Light Orchestra’s “Mr.

Few people realize that, in fact, we hear vocoders every day. What does a vocoder sound like? The instrument, which originated in telephone voice compression experiments of the 1920s, first and foremost brings to mind a specific time and space: electronic and funk music of the late ’70s.
