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Friday, 31 July 2020

Wolfgang Dauner's Et Cetera Feat. Jon Hiseman, Larry Coryell ‎– "Knirsch" (MPS Records ‎– 21 21432-2) 1972

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One thing I likey not within the 'Jazz' idiom is 'Jazz Guitar' ( Derek Bailey exempted), which Larry Coryell extols the...
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Thursday, 30 July 2020

Wolfgang Dauner ‎– "Output" (ECM Records ‎– ECM 1006) 1970

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As well as being great to be left hanging around in your batchelor pad,even if your are a forty year old batchelor whom no sane woman wo...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Penderecki - Don Cherry & The New Eternal Rhythm Orchestra ‎– "Actions" (Philips ‎– 6305 153) 1971

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You know you've made it into the pantheons of recognition when you're only referred to by your family name......like Beethoven,C...
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Sunday, 26 July 2020

Edgard Varèse ‎– "Complete Works Of Edgard Varèse, Volume 1" (EMS Recordings ‎– EMS401) 1950/1962

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Edgard Varèse has been credited as the "Father of Electronic Music",probably by himself. There's a clear behavioural patte...
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Saturday, 25 July 2020

Basil Kirchin - "Worlds Within Worlds" (Columbia ‎– SCX 6463) 1971

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Looking like the Wolfman for need of a better description, Basil was a much overlooked innovator in the world of improvised music and...
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Friday, 24 July 2020

Various ‎Artists – "Electronic Panorama: Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, Warszawa" (Philips ‎– 6740 001) 1970

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This is the 'NOW that's what I call music" for Musique Concrete,or "NOW That's what I don't call Musique"...
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Thursday, 23 July 2020

Tod Dockstader ‎– "Eight Electronic Pieces" (Self-Released) 1961

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Thanks Tod, I knew I was the real talent behind all these musique concrete records.....as the man himself explains: "Electronic m...
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Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Josef Anton Riedl ‎– "Klangregionen 1951- 2007" (Edition RZ ‎– Ed. RZ 1020-21) 2009

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Another pioneer of concrete and Early electronic music composition, Riedl co-founded and became music director of Siemens Studio für ele...
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Various Artists ‎– "Electronic 2000 (Philips ‎– 6585 007) 1971

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While everyone in the British Isles were inexplicably making music everyone wanted to listen to and pay enormous amounts of money to its...
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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Various ‎Artists – "Musical Offering / Музыкальное Приношение" (Мелодия ‎– С60 30721 000) 1990

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The Soviets insisted that anything the capitalists could do,they could at least match it,usually making these things on a budget of close...
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Iván Patachich ‎– "Musical Electro-Alchemy" (Hungaroton ‎– SLPX 12369) 1982

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As this blog was initially about how to turn musical Lead into musical Gold,or vice-versa, the 'electro-alchemy' of another very...
Monday, 20 July 2020

Zoltán Jeney ‎– "Om" (Hungaroton ‎– SLPX 12708) 1986

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John Coltrane's "Om" , or anti-Om, as made on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum,by some cat called Zoltan!?....so that's either Z...
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Sunday, 19 July 2020

Edward M. Zajda ‎– "Independent Electronic Music Composer" (Ars Nova Ars Antiqua Recordings ‎– AN-1006) 1969

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Lets take a break from the Iron Curtain,and look into the do it yourself electronic world of an ordinary American....albeit with a Po...
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Saturday, 18 July 2020

Various Artists ‎– "From Czech Electronic Music Studios" (Supraphon ‎– 1 11 1423) 1974

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If ever there was a soundtrack to life in a police state then this is it. On State Label Supraphon, with cover art from some twisted nig...
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Friday, 17 July 2020

Various ‎Artists – "Magyar Elektronikus Zene: Hungarian Electronic Music" (Hungaroton ‎– SLPX 11851) 1979

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Oh Those Hungarians and their weird Iron curtain ways,and their kerazzzzy christian names like.....er.....Peter!!!?.....two Peters in fa...
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Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Zoltán Pongrácz ‎– "144 Sounds: Electronic Music" (Hungaroton ‎– SLPX 12433) 1982

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Most Hungarians have names that are later used for the character of an Evil God in cheapo kids fantasy cartoon series'. Zoltan , the...
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László Dubrovay ‎– "A² "/ "Oscillations Nos. 1-3" (Hungaroton ‎– SLPX 12030) 1979

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Any cover with close ups of an EMS synth is always iminently purchasable,and doubly so if it comes from behind the Iron Curtain during t...
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Sunday, 12 July 2020

Gil Mellé ‎– "Tome VI" (Verve Records ‎– V6-8744) 1968

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Yes, it's 'Jazz'.....impressed?...nah,me niether. But it's more than that, It's Jazz with an Early Electronics flav...
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Saturday, 11 July 2020

Trevor Duncan ‎– "Other Worlds" (Impress ‎– IA 428) 1981

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Was there ever an American called Trevor? The infamous,or, Not famous, composer of the main theme to " Plan 9 From Outer Space ...
Friday, 10 July 2020

Criswell ‎– "The Legendary Criswell Predicts Your Incredible Future" (Horoscope Records ‎– H-156) 1970

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"We are all interested in the future, for that is where we are going to spend the rest of our lives !", said bonkers TV Psychi...
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Thursday, 9 July 2020

Various Artists - "Plan 9 From Outer Space - The Original Music Underscore" (Retrosonic Records ‎– RR-1001) 1959/1996

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Here we have DIY cinema at its very zenith on a lavish budget of precisely  Fuck all. ( watch it HERE! ) Edward D. Wood Jr's anti-n...
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Monday, 6 July 2020

Vangelis ‎– "Blade Runner" (EastWest ‎– 4509-96574-2) 1982/1994

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On the day that soundtrack miester Ennio Morricone left us at the mercy of John Williams, and that bloke from Radiohead to do our soundt...
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Sunday, 5 July 2020

Wendy Carlos ‎– "The Shining (Complete Motion Picture Score By Wendy Carlos)" (Overlook Productions ‎– LOOK-CD19802005) 1980/2005

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"HEEEEEEERRRRRREEEESSSSS JONNY!" I was tempted to just post pages and pages of the repeated phrase "All Work And No Pla...
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