Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) produced "Song of the Second Moon" alone in October 1957. Tom Dissevelt was not involved. The B-side of this 7", "Colonel Bogey" (an arrangement of a composition by Alford) was produced by Raaijmakers in April 1958, so the release of the 7" can't be earlier than that. Dissevelt was invited to the electronic music studio at Philips Research Laboratories in 1958, to continue the Popular Electronic Music project. "Whirling" (US title "Sonik Re-Entry" was composed by Dissevelt and produced together with Kid Baltan (who did most of the technical work) in August 1958, followed by "Syncopation" (US title "Orbit Aurora") in November 1958, and "Drifting" (Us title "Moon Maid") and "Vibration" (Us title "The Visitor from Inner Space" in October 1959. These four compositions were released on the EP Electronic Movements. (These dates come from an original Philips production list kept by Roelof Vermeulen, head of the Acoustics Department at Philips Research Laboratories.)Dick Raaijmakers died on 4 September 2013 at the age of 83.Edgar Varèse worked in Eindhoven on the music for the Philips Pavilion from 2 September 1957 until 8 April 1958. This production had nothing to do with the electronic music activities at Philips Research. The music for the Philips Pavilion was produced in a temporary studio set up in a garage at Strijp 3 by Philips' product division ELA.

6 september 2013 at the age of 84 this genius died.R.I.P.

Dick Raaijmakers died on 4 September 2013 at the age of 83.

Beautiful, unbelievably influential electronic music.Impossible to calculate just how it changed the musical landscape.Unlike most electronic music,this has the element of Jazz to it and not just European classical influences.

More than a decade before Kraftwerk, Dick Raaijmakers, also known as Kid Baltan (a pseudonym created by the spelling of his name Dick and Natlab - his working place - backwards) was, together with Tom Dissevelt, behind the early contemporary Electronic Music compositions. Between 1957 and 1958, the duo composed through the use of primitive synthesizers timeless masterpieces, 'Song Of The Second Moon' and 'Sonik Re-Entry' being the most notorious of them. Even before the landing of men into the Moon or any Space travels, majestic 'Song Of The Second Moon' captured the essence of the space mood and Science Fiction esthetic. 'Song Of The Second Moon' was the blueprint for a future sound, later recognized as 'Electronic Music'. On the cover of the seven inch single first pressing on Philips, you could read 'Electronic Popular Music', and there was an astonishing text about the 'new possibilities of expression' concerning the Electronic Music and the independance between the spirit of the composition and the medium of its expression. (Don't miss the chance to read and realize how modern this concepts are).

Philips had this NatLab (laboratory for physics as it's socalled) to do all sorts of experiments. Lots of time it wouldn't have to have a certain goal or purpose. The experiments usually led to no end-product, but gave Philips al ot of patents. Though Philips did make way for famous products like the philishave, the tape cassete, the laser disc, their own video tape, and the compact disc. And the first TV broadcast and first Dutch intercontinentall audio call came from the founding town Eindhoven. Well, the list goes on.But NatLab had as said this quest for electronical music. In the same days they invited Edgar Varèse to write Poem Electronique for the world exposition.