Hey Huberts! Wot are yer fav 60's spaced-out, MOOG lps?

[Mississippi Blind Child Assburn]

Aye.

[Fretless]

Would that be specifically Moog or any early electronic sound-generator experimentalists (like Silver Apples or White Noise)?

[Mississippi Blind Child Assburn]

Boy! You are being intrepid.

Aye, anyfinks alroight.


Switched-on, loikes.

[Mississippi Blind Child Assburn]

Okay.
Blind Child gonna have to extend the date: late 60s TO 1975. (Just noticed most of the good ones were in the 70s.)

Notice that, at first, most of the artists were MIDDLE AGED MEN? Lyman, Baxter, Bass..... For instance the Sy Mann "Switched-on Santa" lp has (I think its Perrey) as a bald-headed Santa.

Also an over-abundance of these lps WERE NOT SERIOUS. They were like soft party records. The worse doing electronic covers of shit like Windmills Of Your Mind - okay, its not shit (great lyrics) but you know wot I mean. Light, light dross.

You would have thought that the youth would have latched on to this fad , not aging men. But I guess it all comes down to money.The moog synth did not come cheap and hippies could not afford. I suspect much access came thru academia.

[Karnevil9]

George Harrison 'Electronic sound' [1969]

[_D_S_J_R_]

I need to hear that one...

Dr Who and UFO closing theme apart, it was -

Switched On Bach

(Echoes by PF but it's not 'electronic' as such - the middle part soundscape is very evocative of later electronic soundscapes though)

TONTO's Expanding Headband - Zero Time - time has increased my deepest awe of this recording and the synth system itself is now a working museum piece in Canada and not stripped out and flogged off...

Cluster II

PHAEDRA by Tangerine Dream, which totally blew my head off and from which I've never recovered (followed by Rubycon and Ricochet and... and..., and Aqua and Epsilon In Malasian Pale by TeeDee's Edgar Froese - Track 'Maroubra Bay' is wonderful for summer days)

TONTO's followup - It's About Time was another great one track 'The Boatman' has an excellent sequencer background that comes up in one or two System 7 mixes...

One more out of loads but it's late... New Age Of Earth, by Ashra. the track 'Deep Distance' takes me to the top of Ivinghoe Beacon (or Moel Famau if I'm really homesick)

[Mississippi Blind Child Assburn]

I have not heard that Ashra lp for a whiles but from wot I recall it does not fit the category. This was Gottsching, right? So then it would be lotta echoplex guitar.

.........

You don't want to hear "Electronic Sound". That is just Karns giving noobs false hope - and I applaud him for it! The Harrison side sounds like fireworks shooshing and going off - that's all. The better side, having pretty well nothing to do with Harrison - read the story and find out wot a prick he could really be -is the uncredited Bernie Krause of the duo ,Krause & Wotsit, who set up a moog booth at Woodstock and who released at least 3 lps.
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From Tonto, you wans to check out one or two lps by ....oh, go ask Karney, he knows.

[slinger]

Beaver & Krause

[_D_S_J_R_]

'New Age of Earth' was a keyboard led album and guitar, where there is anything, is mixed well back. Blackouts was different though...

I've remembered another - 'Snowflakes Are Dancing' by Tomita... I owe my love of many Debussy piano pieces to the colourful Tomita re-imaginations on this record.

[Mississippi Blind Child Assburn]

Aye. A good'un.
You wans Tomita doing electronic Debussy and Dutoit doing orchestral.