Ok, prompted by a DFA remix of Delia Derbyshire (el monte)â what's more good analogue synth music to look for? I have<!--more-->:
Delia Derbyshire's Inventions for the BBC Radio Workshop, which is a bit more spacy and less musical than I'd like (except for the Dr. Who theme, which is awesome);
White Noise's Electric Storm, which veers between too atonal and too too chanson-y (though I still enjoy it in bits, but rarely at one stretch);
United States of America is similar to Derbyshire and White Noise, in that it veers into synths-as-circus-music too often. I like it when they get into psych rock, but that's less hypnotic than what I want.
Likewise, Silver Apples are just too much caliope for me right now. And Haack is crazy. Cluster also gets into "oompah," though they're German. But Zuckerzeit is much closer to what I want than Cluser and Enoâ I need it to have some motion to it. More active than Tangerine Dream's Zeit, anyway.
Terry Riley was also good for this for a while, especially Rainbow in Curved Air, though I always felt like Wendy Carlos was better suited to the microfocus of tones rather than interpretation, though when she gets those tones right she does a good job.
Excuse me, I'm rambling. What I'd like to do is find more rolling, warm, multi-layer analogue synth work that skews away from vocals and guitars, but toward "burbling." As an aside toward modern tracksâ the only Orb I liked was Papua New Guinea, though I have a suspicion that this might all be down the same path.
So, who else should I be looking for? What else should I be looking for? How can I articulate what I'd like to hear more clearly?
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:32 (nineteen years ago)
papua new guinea was by future sound of london
― never acid again, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:34 (nineteen years ago)
Well then, I don't like the Orb very much at all, now do I?
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)
but on the other hand, you like FSOL more than you thought you did
― never acid again, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:37 (nineteen years ago)
also ILM specializes in strangulation and not mere trangulation, whatever that is
― blunt, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:37 (nineteen years ago)
xpost: But I remember both liking FSOL's Dead Cities very much, and then not so much when I listened to it years later, as well as not being able to remember Life Forms even though I have it somewhere around, so I guess I don't like FSOL very much either.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:39 (nineteen years ago)
"also ILM specializes in strangulation and not mere trangulation, whatever that is"
I trust ILM to be split at about 30% bullshit one-liners and hotlinking, 20% suggestions of things that are hard to find but not worth the effort, 20% great stuff I've never heard of before, 10% Geir, 10% people arguing with Geir, and 5% vicious criticisms that make me rethink listening assumptions. The rest used to be Esteban, but now can be my commenting in my threads to apologize for typos, errors and general mistakes that show a lack of editing for facts or style.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)
bullshit one liners bring a smile to your sad face :(
― blunt, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:13 (nineteen years ago)
Of course they do!
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:14 (nineteen years ago)
also given enough time one can provide both entertainment and enlightening
― blunt, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:15 (nineteen years ago)
Like a koan!
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:24 (nineteen years ago)
If I read you correctly you enjoy the warmth of arpeggiated analog synthesizers.
The main 70's touchstones for Delia & Gavin's music are, to my ears, Jean-Michel Jarre "Oxygene" and "Equinoxe" as well as Tangerine Dream, especially "Phaedra". You could get into Alan Parsons Project stuff, but it's a minefield of Classic and Dud.
― DJ Logan5, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)
I just got the album <A href=http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfrxq9gld6e>Interface</A> by Heldon, which might be your cup of tea.
Early Aphex Twin like the ambient works stuff is all played analogue. Ash Ra Temple or Popul Vuh, might be your sort of thing as well. Maybe some RaymRaymond Scott stuff? He gets weird ass tones but he never forgoes songwriting.
― filthy dylan, Monday, 21 May 2007 07:53 (nineteen years ago)
I have no idea how to link any more.
Maybe you'll like the Dark Side of the Moog series by Namlook and Klaus Schulze. Plenty of analogue synths here.
I started with volume VIII, recorded live at some jazz festival. Schulze plays a Trautonium in this one.
― no-nonsense, Monday, 21 May 2007 08:42 (nineteen years ago)
you'd love TONTO's Expanding Head Band. and the Raaijmakers/Dissevelt/Badings <i>Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music</i> released by Basta.
― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)
This Simon Reynolds article on the 70s analog synth guys should help.
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)
Certainly early Kraftwerk, up to Autobahn or so.. is fairly obvious.
― blunt, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)
Tomorrow People soundtrack cd? it is another library record (ESL104) like the doctor who at the bbc things but is *a bit* more coherant with longer pieces on it (26 tracks instead of 86!). recently re-issued by Trunk.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tomorrow-People-Various-Artists/dp/B000EMGFQM
― koogs, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)
Analog Synthesizer Epics: S/D, POV
― scott seward, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)
early atom heart - search b2, his live album from 94. one hour of non-tweaky 303 modulation and extra spacious bass throb, like tangerine dream passed through the acid house filter.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)
i:cube's live at the planetarium - one hour of smooth space music from beardo french house artist.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)
chill out or die! vols 1,2,3 and 4 from rising high records also nice.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)
btw that reynolds article is pretty terrible (you gotta pay the bills i guess)
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)
Oh yeah, I've got the Tonto's EHB album, and I really like that too, though I'd forgotten about it.
― I eat cannibals, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)
mort garson owns this thread.
― Display Name, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)
Ok, prompted by a DFA remix of Delia Derbyshire (el monte)â what's more good analogue synth music to look for?
the Delia from Delia & Gavin is not Delia Derbyshire. It's Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom.
but if that made you check out Radiophonic Workshop and White Noise, well ... not a bad mistake to make.
― dmr, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)
try ashra - new age of earth & ryuichi sakamoto - b2 unit, the two peaks of late 70s/early 80s futuristic analogue synthesis imo, the former is on an endless washed out star gazing trip while the latter shows the workings of a glacial clock-tower in future tokyo
i really want to check out atom heart but the back catalogue is so daunting
― creme1, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)
Certainly early Kraftwerk, up to Autobahn or so.. is fairly obvious
No synths on early Kraftwerk though (not until "Ralf and Florian" and, even then, sparing). Virgin-era Tangerine Dream plus Edgar Froese's "Epsilon in Malaysian Pale" if you can find it.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 09:14 (nineteen years ago)
Certainly there are keyboards, on I & II for instance, used in a hypnotic/droney style.
― blunt, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)
Good god someone corrected the thread title? What is the world coming to. Revisionists!
― blunt, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)
What about the series of Moebius/Plank albums from the Eighties (Rastakrautpasta/Material/Zero Count)? There's a lot of non-electronic instruments on them, but jeezus do they ever burble.
I think of them as the missing link between prime-era jaunty seventies Cluster and peak-form Mouse On Mars.
― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)