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.

Dave Tompkins is an acclaimed music journalist. His new book, How To Wreck A Nice Beach, is a history of the vocoder from its military applications to its musical ones.

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 ...

Today he’s back with a very different offering. “Vocoder,” the first new Floating Points single since Promises, finds Shepherd returning to the realm of heady, frenetic club music.

Floating Points preps for summer with new track “Vocoder” Sam Shepherd’s first new music since last year’s Promises.