Back when vocoders were the sound of the future

This isn’t vocoder or talk box. It’s vocals typed into a Texas Instruments Speak-&-Spell machine. Back in 1988 when this compilation came out I thought house sounded like the present, but this was definitely the future.

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Speak & Spell…!! Now that’s a blast from the past!

I remember hearing Flash tearing this one up back in the day… :arrow_down:

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One of the first singles I ever bought… It sounded so strange and futuristic.

I feel like perhaps we didn’t have enough of these.
Some similarities between these two. Sleazecoder, anyone?

Stop

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