Your favourite Electronic Prog albums? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Psychedelic Paul wrote:

It looks like it's time to start putting another A-Z list together. At least I won't have any trouble finding an artist for the tricky letter "V" this time. Wink

After second thought, I don't think, I'll do any threads where I ask people to do your kind of A-Z list, as I think that would be too much to ask (everybody) to do - even I've been thinking to do that regarding the most popular sub-genres.

Edited by David_D - December 30 2021 at 12:59

quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond

I don't have very much in this genre, but from the few titles I have, these are my favorites:

Vangelis - Albedo 0.39

Vangelis - Heaven & Hell

Vangelis - Direct

Mark Shreeve - Embryo

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Majeure - Solar Maximum

Patrick Moraz - Human Interface

Zombi - Surface to Air

Zombi - Spirit Animal

Zombi - Shape Shift

Zombi - 2020

Kosmogon - Mässan

----------
i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag
that's a happy bag of lettuce
this car smells like cartilage
nothing beats a good video about fractions

Quaeschning & Schnauss

Ian

Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com

https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/

Wonderful list

BrufordFreak wrote:

Can't believe I'm the only one (so far) to include a Ryuichi Sakamoto album! His contributions to this category, starting back with Yellow Magic Orchestra, are considerable!

(It's not all Berlin School or Ambient, people!)

That's right. I'm sure I'm the only guy here who probably owns anything by the late Azuma. He's sort of "the Japanese Vangelis."

eBay

Tangerine Dream Force Majure has creepy darkscapes with electronics and mysterious themes. The drums and guitar create a Progressive Rock style. Not that the album is less Electronic. It's just that the album comes across sounding like a Progressive Rock band not unlike Cyclone did but without vocals.

Klaus Schulze- X...An album that is Electronic, but posses a sub genre of Prog called Symphonic Rock. The music creates that style by the usage of strings or perhaps creates a Classical sound not distant from the early Enid .

Popol Vuh- In Den Gardens of Pharaoh....Indescribable for the most part. It projects many aspects to primitive music and it's very spiritual. To assume that it is Progressive Rock is kind of misleading. It might come across that way simply because of its usage of percussion and some of the improvisation on keyboard and additionally Popol Vuh are considered to be part of the Krautrock movement and very much thought by many to be a band. I think of them as being spiritual.

Mort Garson- Black Mass ..The percussive style fused with eerie themes with definite melodies are more likely to be tied into characteristics of Progressive Rock...If Black Mass was performed by Goblin , The Enid..or Miriodor it would reveal how close to being Progressive Rock it is.

Johannes Schmolleing- The Zoo Of Tranquility..Melodic, quirky, and dreamy. Electronic music based around uniquely composed themes with a Progressive Rock edge and concept.

Mike Oldfield- Incantations..The album has a repetitive nature like Terry Riley or Philip Glass but with a Progressive Rock style because of the usage of flutes, guitars, and drums.

David Bedford- The Odyssey...Very Electronic..but again..sounding like a Progressive Rock concept album in various sections throughout.

Vangelis- Albeado 0.39...Unique sounding Electronic Music with a Progressive Rock feel not too distant from ELP

Edited by Jacob Schoolcraft - December 30 2021 at 18:54

My favourite stuff is unsurprisingly my own stuff. ;-)

Apologies for the immodesty. ;-)

https://brotherhoodofthemachine.bandcamp.com/album/trip-hazard

Usually I am a big fan of music that mixes electronic with non-electronic sounds. When I think of electronic sounds, I would include the use of studio-based sound manipulation (like f.e. it was used by The Beatles and Frank Zappa in the mid-60's) as well as musique concrete and things like that. Many of my favourite albums have electronic elements in them in one way or another, for instance in pop and rock, but I am also very keen on folktronica - electronics and acoustic instruments often suit each other.

On the other hand, I don't have that much fully electronic music in my collection, but I definitely have my favourite there as well. The first albums I can think of are by artists like Cluster (Zuckerzeit) and Kraftwerk (The Man Machine). I have even experimented a bit with fully electronic music myself lately.

Edited by The Anders - December 31 2021 at 08:02

David_D wrote:

Jacob Schoolcraft wrote:

Tangerine Dream Force Majure has creepy darkscapes with electronics and mysterious themes. The drums and guitar create a Progressive Rock style. ....

.......

Very interesting with your comments, Jacob.

That is the kind, I think about when distinguishing between my "Electronic Prog" and some of Progressive Electronic.

Tangerine Dream had just made a full-blown prog rock album — with vocals! —the year before (Cyclone, 1978). Some of its DNA found its way to Force Majeure and inspired Edgar Froese to compose the title suite's motif on piano, and layer the synthesizers on afterward. Klaus Krieger played drums on Cyclone and also played on Force Majeure. The second side features "Cloudburst Flight,' with a stunning guitar solo courtesy of Froese, and a rousing sequencer piece laden with unique timbres called "Thru Metamorphic Rocks." It's a standout album, through and through.

After that, Klaus was gone, conservatory-trained keyboardist Johannes Schmoelling joined, and the band proceeded to enter into its most successful phase.

eBay

Following this TD sub-thread:

Peter Baumann 2016 Machines Of Desire