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Posted: February 26 2015 at 14:18

I agree. Love it.

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Posted: February 26 2015 at 15:22

I always forget to check that Harald Grosskopf album, Michael already recommended to me twice... I should write the name somewhere LOL

That Space Art album is really good: my father had some of their music on cassette, I used to play it a lot when I was a kid... it was probably my first electronic experience Tongue

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Posted: February 26 2015 at 15:25

Hey Pierre, do you know Didier Bocquet?

He's a pretty obscure artist, but he released a couple of really interesting albums near the end of the 70s. The first one Voyage Cérébral is one of my favourite French electronic albums.

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Posted: February 26 2015 at 15:27

Meltdowner wrote:

I always forget to check that Harald Grosskopf album, Michael already recommended to me twice... I should write the name somewhere LOL

That Space Art album is really good: my father had some of their music on cassette, I used to play it a lot when I was a kid... it was probably my first electronic experience Tongue

That Grosskopf album is such an easy album to get into if you already dig the style. Friendly like a labrador.

Cool that your dad knows Space Art Cool

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Posted: February 26 2015 at 15:35

Maybe I could make listen to two ambient projects:
- Space Mégalithe, a duet influenced by the "Berlin School"
http:////soundcloud.com/megalithe1

- Ujjaya, ethno-ambient artist influenced by Steve Roach, Robert Rich, Brian Eno, Jorge Reyes and Indian music:
http://soundcloud.com/ujjaya-ethno-ambient

I saw them on stage last friday, it's some good stuff.

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Posted: February 26 2015 at 16:01

Dave, I only know the album Eclipse. A fine album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsVZPyTVns

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Posted: February 27 2015 at 10:39

Guldbamsen wrote:

So I was asking myself which PE albums I'd recommend folks who want rawk with their music.

I came up with:

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure

Heldon - Stand By

White Noise - An Electric Storm

Zombi - Spirit Animal

Klaus Schulze - X

Harald Grosskopf - Synthesist

Harmonia - Deluxe

Peak - Ebondazzar

Space Art - Trip in the Center Head

Great choices. That Zombi album has guitars (the others have bass only).

For electronic music that rocks, Mark Shreeve is practically the poster boy. All keyboards/synths, sequences and electronic rhythms, no guitars.

(from Nocturne, 1995)

(from Crash Head, 1988)

(from Legion, 1985 – featuring Tangerine Dream's Chris Franke as guest synthesist!)

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Posted: February 27 2015 at 10:40

hellogoodbye wrote:

To wash my brain and my mouth Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVHqNYhcK9k

Their best work, IMO. A fine companion to early '80s TD (one of the guys in YOU really reminds me of Chris Franke, too, haha).

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Posted: February 27 2015 at 10:41

Guldbamsen wrote:

^The opening cut on that album is brilliant. Berlin school on coffee and amphetamine - in a hurry with frenetic drums and a fiercely paced sequencer. Possibly the fastest moving track of the genre methinks.

Have a listen to those Shreeve tracks. I think you'll like them.

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Posted: March 07 2015 at 00:17

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So. What do y'all think? I'd say:

Kraftwerk

Cluster

Harmonia

Are 3 stellar & influential bands to start with and go from there...

Klaus Schulze - X
Fripp & Eno
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Constance Demby - Set Free
Iasos - Inter-Dimensional Music
Kraftwerk
Jean-Michel Jarre
Edgar Froese - Metropolis
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Posted: March 12 2015 at 02:09

are Vulgar Unicorn Progressive Electronic Music...

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Music Is Live

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Keep Calm And Listen To The Music…
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Posted: March 25 2015 at 10:22

This thread needs to be bumped (so does the Tangerine Dream thread), and I'll use the opportunity to pass along the word that a new CD reissue of Catspaw, the 1986 album by the US progressive electronic duo Emerald Web (1979-1990), was released this month.

Catpsaw is one of Emerald Web's softer albums, but great music nonetheless. If you enjoy albums like Tangerine Dream's Optical Race and Eddie Jobson's Theme of Secrets, this belongs in your collection. What's really cool about the reissue are the five early '80s bonus tracks, all of which have a different, darker flavor. Emerald Web had a very unique sound, with their synthesizers and sequencers complemented by an array of flutes and Lyricon wind synthesizer (and on certain albums, electric guitar and guitar synthesizer).

Listen to the entire album at this link (you can also order it there, directly from the label):

https://anodizesound.bandcamp.com/album/catspaw

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Posted: April 04 2015 at 22:27

On the last page bands like Peak, Symphonic Slam and Jurgen Fritz's Hard to be a God were brought up.

Don't really know why.

I do not see those as being progressive electronic (or, for the matter, electronic.)

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 01:27

Isn't the synthesizer classified as electronic music?

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 02:50

^Vangelis isn't classified as Progressive EM so it would appear no.

I have this vague idea in my head that EM is meant to be music that comes directly from the synth not music that is composed separately and then synths are used instead of an orchestra. So turning on a sequencer and building music around it becomes electronic music. That said I'm not sure that Vangelis Spiral album could not be considered EM.

Edited by richardh - April 05 2015 at 02:50

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 02:55

richardh wrote:

^Vangelis isn't classified as Progressive EM so it would appear no.

Thus Rick Wakeman is not prog either?

(Exc. YES Band)

Big hug to you, RichardH,

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 03:02

Kati wrote:

richardh wrote:

^Vangelis isn't classified as Progressive EM so it would appear no.

Thus Rick Wakeman is not prog either?

(Exc. YES Band)

Big hug to you, RichardH,

Rick is prog, just not EM.

Is Tomita EM??!

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 03:03

I personally believe that electronic music belongs in prog, all play part in music, we all know that all notes already have been played/invented anyway, thus all depends now in ingenuity and music arrangements really.

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 03:14

It certainly does . The synth is a massive part of the genre although like all genres (or sub genres) it gets a bit stale. Then you have artists that create their own stuff and defy labels. Annoying buggers!

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Posted: April 05 2015 at 03:26

richardh wrote:

It certainly does . The synth is a massive part of the genre although like all genres (or sub genres) it gets a bit stale. Then you have artists that create their own stuff and defy labels. Annoying buggers!

hahahaha Richardh, true however i.e. pop and hip hop artists they do not necessary make much or any use of synths, most of their music is bass orientated anyway (studio not bass guitar btw) while completely lacking in instrumental band based music. And techno music is equally software made, not by a synthesizer.

Overall synths do play sometimes a major role in prog music

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