Electronic Progressive (Rock) Appreciation Space

Australian 70's obsurity Cybotron are great fun and sometimes kinda cheesy. Like in the titletrack of their second album Colossus:

And for those who are interested,  http://brokenspineprods.bandcamp.com/ has a lot of Aidan Baker/Nadja stuff available for free. 

With regard to Klaus Schulze I only know the classics (Mirage, Body Love etc) but this boxset series La Vie Electronique has really took my interest.  Have any of you guys got these?  If so, which are recommended.  I thought perhaps Volumes 4 and 6 sounded best reading various EM site reviews, but I'd welcome any views before I take the plunge.

Sheavy wrote: I am immensely enjoying Aidan Baker right now.

I am immensely enjoying Aidan Baker right now.

Guldbamsen wrote: Great post Toddler! I too have an affinity for the peeps who come from rock prior to diving in at the deep end of electronics. Hell, most of the German pioneers came from Krautrock bands - one could even state that the out there mentality of those early progressive spirited bands ploughed the way for many an artists who relied on electronics. Schulze started out as a drummer, Froese as a guitarist - and I think a lot of other artists did this as well.  The whole notion of 'knowing' instruments - but moreover how they feel and what they can do - goes hand in hand with the electronic world methinks, because you need to arrange the music to bear, at least, some traces with familiar music foundations. Bass, treble and rhythm - melodic segments and how you wish to portray them, -that is if you want that stuff - some artists went for the abstract stagnant floating universe, that ever so slowly sculpted itself so to speak. Schulze's Cyborg springs to mind for instance. I am definitely reading up on Mexican artists though... Thanks for the thoughtful post!

Allright shifting from my Solar Bears album to something more in the vicinity of this thread: Radio Massacre International, and Alan if you are reading this, this band also counts as a rec from me

I was a huge fan of Electronic music in America (as a child), and that began when my 4th grade music teacher introduced me to "Switched On Bach" by Wendy Carlos. She played it for the class and I was an instant fan at age 9. I was a strange child attempting to con my parents for money in return for duties such as mowing the lawn and house cleaning. I bought Beaver & Krause "Ragnorok", "In A Wild Sanctuary", Ruth White titles, Pauline Oliveros, Mort Garson, Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings and many more. I had also experienced hearing electronic sounds recorded with string quartet during the invasion of experimental 20th century composers during the 60's. This all began for me in 66' and continued into the early 70's until by accident, I discovered the Electronic music scene in Berlin. I spent astronomical amounts of cash collecting import albums of Electronic music. Walter Christian Rothe, Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze. and the list is long. However, what I found interesting back then, was the more unknown Electronic artists who perhaps had ties with the ones who had hit the surface of popularity. It was so deep and I must have had more than 2000 import albums of Electronic music...YET! During that time and in recent decades, I can't believe all the discoveries I had left behind. It was a realization for me to plough through a wealthy person's Electronic music collection. As the years progressed, I collected prog and discovered those cross-over artists who experimented with Electronic music such as Goblin did on their soundtrack to "Zombi" or Steve Hillage with his "Rainbow Dome Music". I collected all of the Neuronium LP'S and when I discovered they were from Spain, it intrigued me. I discovered that musicians like Jorge Reyes...who had spent his time in the 70's playing progressive rock were now recording Electronic music. I investigated this so called "Electronic Music" scene in Mexico and was enthraled with it. To think there was an actual Electronic music scene there and that artists were releasing cd's of their music simply amazed me. They had a unique approach to Electronic music and I bought everything I could locate on disc. I discussed their music with vendors being informed that most of these artists were poverty stricken. I wanted to move there and strip myself of everything in my life just to become one of them. I was amazed by the fact that many of them had spent years in Mexican prog bands prior to releasing Electronic music of their own.   

Edited by TODDLER - July 08 2012 at 11:13

I am now listening to Aqua for the first time in what seems like forever.

Black metal is a pretty far cry from Berlin school, but then again I've been listening a lot to Magma lately... Eclectic music tastes sport a healthy soul, good lad