Dick Raaijmakers tells about the moment that he was working on this experiment to make popular electronic music. As an assignment of Vermeulen I made that music considerably fast, in a few days. And it sounded like a rumba so I called it electronic rumba.
At the same time the Russian Sputnik flew over and the Russians were such geniuses to make us aware of that. If you tuned the radio to a special wave length you heard small beeps of the transmitter. Those beeps corresponded exactly with the beeps I had made for the electronic rumba. Suddenly I changed the title because I thought this is it. And I said this is the song of the second moon. And all at once I became someone.
Kees Teer found that he had nothing with that electronic music. He was surprised that they did it and was prepared to listen to it all. But in an atmosphere where electronics stood at a point to break loose according to the invention of the transistor and the computer it seemed odd to invest in electronic music. Priority wise you could not afford people to electronic music if you work for the benefit of this industry.
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