Eliane Radigue ‎– "Feedback Works 1969-1970" (Alga Marghen ‎– plana-R alga040) 2013

Industrial before Industrial was called Avant Garde,and Drones were part of the Avant Garde well before they were accepted as 'normal' amongst the self-pitying masses of european youth.
Refreshingly, The Avant Garde had little time for Nazi Obsessions, and wouldn't have heard of Charles Manson, so the prospects of boredom have immediatly diminished greatly.
No-one gets as serious about art as the French, so popular cultural Icons such as Manson and Aliester Crowley would have been dismissed as derivative....something that doesn't seem to trouble most post-TG Industrial artists,as everything they do is derivative since the release of "Second Annual Report".
Pierre Henry's former assitant,Radigue, works with electronic sounds,provided by an ARP 2500 synthesizer, on tape to create an ambience within which sound seems to move in a continual flow around the listener. Her music has been described by some clever observer as "infinitely discreet ... next to which all other music seems to be tugging at one's sleeve for attention.". I say,dunno about any descreet swirling around the listener, its a 'Drone' mate, like a spike being driven into your brain by an approaching B-52...how's that for observation?

One could go quietly unsane listening to this all the way through,something that could not be said about any Industrial music of the period following this work six years or so later. Although her German contemporaries,Kluster,could also have a claim to be 'Industrial before Industrial',as could several dozen Avant Garde composers from the sixties onwards.....and NO, Lou Reed didn't invent Drone music in 1975,just like he didn't invent anything ,except, being a professional arsehole.

For those of you who are more shallow, but none less relevant in their opinions...in my opinion...she's rather Hot! too.

Tracklist:

1 Stress-Osaka (June 1969) 11:35
2 Usral (April 1969) 13:32
3 Omnht (1970) 19:42
4 Vice - Versa, Etc (1970) Mix I 12:14
5 Vice - Versa, Etc (1970) Mix II 16:16

DOWNLOAD the early works of this saucey avant-garde temptress HERE!