A scientific tool for those lacking a voice, a means for encrypting voices during WWII and a way to drop the funk, the vocoder has had many exhale its praises. Here are five essential vocoder tracks.

…when you can use VOCALOID, a totally fascinating, vaguely unsettling singing synthesizer program from – where else? – Japan. It doesn’t just do the robot voice box or vocoder sounds – this one ...

Band that everyone copies makes a record that doesn’t sound like anything else, surprised and happy about the amount of vocoder on this. Brothertiger – Fundamentals Vol. 4 Beautiful mix of spa music / ...

Last year Floating Points, aka electronic producer Sam Shepherd, teamed with free jazz icon Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra on Promises, a staggering, emotionally charged work that ...

Last year Floating Points collaborated with Pharoah Sanders and London Symphony Orchestra on Promises, one of The FADER's favorite albums of 2021. Today Sam Shepherd returns with new solo material ...