Of course, in the 1970s we had...

The work of Dick Raaijmakers was subject to a fine compilation by Basta and is certainly worth your time, along with the fêted collection Popular Electronics, Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips.

The metallic-sleeved Philips Prospective 21 releases are quite hard to find these days but there are several absolute crackers in the series (especially Electronic Panorama, Francois Bayle’s Jeîta and Pierre Henry’s Mise en musique du Corticalart de Roger Lafosse, a terrifying cacophany using his own brainwaves as source material) someone really ought to orchestrate a reissue programme, the originals are really pretty.



Perhaps the simplest and most useful recommendation would be Electronic Music by Iannis Xenakis, Diamorphoses in particular remains a thrilling listen.


Edit: Speaking of droning oscillators - I found a performance of one of Bernard Parmegiani's pieces, Stries, lurking on my PC and uploaded it to Sendspace.

if you feel like looking past the 70's the two newest Oren Ambarchi albums are tops... i don't know a lot about this kind of stuff though. just interested and skimming the surface.




Chris, ...Messotint! so good...

White Noise "An Electric Storm" stands out, for sure. Maybe one of the more interesting stories behind a record, and the results show.

http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Storm-Wh ... B00000761B

Also:

Perrey and Kingsley's "The Essential....."

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Perrey- ... 863&sr=1-1

Totally insane Moog driven record, done by the pioneers.



Raymond Scott is seconded. All that early stuff is great.

i noticed there has been no mention of eliane radigue. people tend to either love or hate her music (very long drone type stuff usually made from ARP synths and three tape machines) there's some interviews and performances lurking on the net somewhere too.

I like Iancu Dumitrescu a lot, a little bit later than most of the stuff discussed here but working with a lot of the same analog synthesis/tape music techniques.

You can get a bunch of Stockhausen's electronic stuff on one CD now, it's one of the editions from his record label, I forget the number. Etude, Studie I, Studie II, Gesang Der Junglinge and Kontakte. I found it on the net somewhere, you never see that stuff in record stores and they cost like a billion dollars. Given the overpriced nature of the offering and his being dead and all maybe I should put it up in the sendspace thread. It's a version of Kontakte without the piano and percussion, just the tape music. I actually like it better than the version on Ecstatic Peace.

Re: OHM highlights

This is the highlight. I must have listened to it a hundred times.