Electronic Easy Listening
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Electronic Easy Listening uses synthesizer, theremin, ondioline, Moog, sequencer, electronic organ, or tape effects for music that remains melodic, tuneful, and non-abrasive. Tempos range from slow ambient-lounge drift to bright instrumental pop, roughly 50–140 BPM, with rounded tones and clear melodies replacing rock aggression or avant-garde harshness. The mood is futuristic but approachable: laboratory sound with a living-room smile.
History
The style begins with postwar electronic lounge experiments such as Music Out of the Moon, then develops through 1960s Moog novelty, Perrey & Kingsley's playful electronics, Dick Hyman's Moog pop, and 1970s electronic adaptations by Mort Garson, Tomita, and Jean-Michel Jarre. It sits between space age pop and later ambient/new-age listening, proving that electronic timbre could be soothing, elegant, or catchy rather than merely experimental. Its influence runs through synth instrumental pop, library music, new age, ambient piano/electronic hybrids, and electronic lounge revival.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Music Out of the Moon release history
- Paul Tanner/electro-theremin notes
- Baroque Hoedown history
- space age pop sources