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Funny that the post would mention Kraftwerk - I was listening to Computerworld while at work today.
And if you like that, check out the Sonovox (Alvino Rey and the classic PAMS radio jingles) and Bob Heil’s “talk box” (Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, et al). All different techniques.
I seem to remember that ELO was rather fond of the vocoder. the 2 biggest songs that relied on it were “the diary of horace wimp” and “Mr. Blue Sky” , which is one of my favorites.
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Don’t forget the Bell Labs Voder at the 1938 World’s Fair in New Yawk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder
Starting at 21:44 is the song “Whose shoulder are you looking over anyway?” from Curved Air's third LP Phantasmagoria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdYrorEsa9A
It was speech from Sonja Kristina processed through the Synthi 100 and a PDP 11 at the BBC Radiophonic Studio - Groundbreaking back in 1972!
Also from that save era was a cut on Tonto's Expanding Headband circa 1971 which featured the TONTO (truly a beast of an analog modular) singing on the following...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mhOmPHHjc
Jump forward some 40 odd years and we have the Vocaloids/Utaloids. One of my fellow Freepers turned me on to Hatsune Miku so I'll return the favor. This song is a short operating manuals for Miku, who is a concatenative vocal synthesizer. Be sure to follow the English translation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9EwxLO9Ado
She's got a hell of a good band behind her too! Just a little off topic but I've been listening to a lot of JPop/JRock and find it, strangely enough the last place on the planet that hasn't been taken over by rapCrap