A bandleader with an engineer's brain, Raymond Scott wrote frantic, cartoonish swing tunes in the 1930s and then spent his later years locked in a private studio inventing his own electronic instruments decades ahead of schedule. His music became inescapable through Looney Tunes, even though he never scored a single cartoon himself. Kraftwerk and generations of electronic tinkerers have pointed back to him as a hidden ancestor.

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