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the f00fy one · 14 answers · 4mo

Asking out of curiosity: What's the first song you think of when "electronic music" comes up? Also, what is the oldest example of electronic music you can think of (off the top of your head)?

Tron for the first, since I think it was the first example of electronic music I heard when I was a young kit. It's sort of become my Prototype, mentally.

The Telharmonium is old, but I don't think it counts being electromechanical rather than electronic in its tone generation. I don't know what the first is, but probably something akin to the theremin where someone saw a fault in their design and turned it into beauty instead.

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