I thought this was rather good, so I'll shall have to check them out.
New Order's Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s - from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano - the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you've never heard it before.
Was there this sort of avant garde stuff being produced in the 1930s?
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I think we get used to styles of music, so I don't think this would have made any sense to them. Traditional jazz might always sound great, though.
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