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    Posted: December 29 2021 at 10:08

After having appreciated Jazz-Rock and Folk-Rock, let us try Electronic Prog.

It hasn't been one of my favourite sub-genres so my own list is quite modest:


                    Edgar Froese  (D)  -  Epsilon in Malaysian Pale   (1975)

                   Harmonia  (D)  -  Musik Von Harmonia   (1974)

                    Heldon  (F)  -  Electronique Guerilla  (1974)

                    Heldon   -  Heldon 6. Interface  (1977)

                    Michael Hoenig  (D)  -  Departure From The Northern Wasteland  (1978)

                    Jean Michel Jarre  (F)  -  Oxygene   (1976)

                    Czesław Niemen / N.AE. (PL)  -  Katharsis   (1976)

                    Tangerine Dream  (D)  -  Stratosfear   (1976)


And I hope, you'll enjoy it! Smile



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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
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I hope, I'm not making you too busy with all these A-Z lists, Paul. Approve
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


I hope, I'm not making you too busy with all these A-Z lists, Paul. Approve
Not at all. It's all good fun, and putting together another A-Z list is also a good way to discover artists I hadn't previously heard of. Smile
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Hi,

Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. And then Vangelis.

As far as "Electronic Prog", I can not say that I listen to one thing or another. It's all music to me and my mind!


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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

As far as "Electronic Prog", I can not say that I listen to one thing or another. It's all music to me and my mind!

To me, too, but still, different kind of music, and I appreciate to listen to different kind of music. Smile
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As suggested above, there are many albums and artists whose output have touched upon or drawn heavily from the "progressive electronic", so my list may not fit your expectations exactly.

1. ALIO DIE & LORENZO MONTANÀ Holographic Codex (2015) 
2. BRAINSCAPES Chakradancer (1997)
3. HAROLD BUDD and BRIAN ENO Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirror (1980)
4. KLAUS SCHULZE - X (1978)
5. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Strands (2016)
6. ALIO DIE  Honeysuckle (2011) 
7. HAMMOCK Silencia
8. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO async (2017)
9. OÖPHOI Bardo (2002) *
10. KLAUS SCHULZE Kontinuum (2007)

11. TANGERINE DREAM Rubycon (1975)
12. VANGELIS Blade Runner Original Soundtrack (1994)
13. YVES POTIN aka JAZZCOMPUTER.ORG Forest Stairways (2017)
14. STEVE HAUSCHILDT Nonlin (2019)
15. STELLARDRONE Light Years (2013)
16. MANUEL GÖTTSCHING E2-E4 (1981-84)
17. SEQUENTIA LEGENDA Renaissance (2018)
18. WESERBERGLAND Am Ende der Welt
19. BRIAN ENO Ambient 4: On Land (1982)
20. JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygène (1976)

Kitaro Oasis (1979)
Cosmic Ground 2 (2016)
Robert Rich Filaments (2015) 
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard Farscape (2008)
Claire Hammil Voices (1986)
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (1979)
Klaus Schulze - Mirage (1977)
Klaus Schulze - Timewind (1975)
Harald Grosskopf Synthesist (1980)
Bersarin Quartett B3RSARiN QUART3TT
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (1975)
Kraftwerk - Autobahn (1974)
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
Michael Hoenig & Manuel Gottsching Early Water (1976)
Fennesz & Sakamoto Cendre (2007)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (1976)
Vangelis Voices (1994)
Sheila Chandra ABoneCroneDrone (1996)
Schicke, Führs & Fröhling Pictures (1976)
Mannheim Steamroller Fresh Aire IV (1981)
Synergy Sequencer (1976) 



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There is so much that I love in this...category.  So, I will pick two from each of my favorites to avoid too long a list.

Klaus Schulze - Mirage and X

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon and Tangram

Bjork - Homogenic and Vespertine

Kraftwerk  - Trans Europe Express and The Man Machine

Vangelis  - Blade Runner and Heaven and Hell

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene and Equinoxe

Brian Eno - Discrete Music

Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Ambient 2 - The Plateaux Of Mirror

Autechre * - Chiastic Slide and Exai

* I don't know why these guys aren't listed on this site, but I think of them as prog.  No one else has innovated like them in last couple of decades (as far as I am aware anyway).

Also amazing modern electronic artists who make use of unusual textures, interesting recording techniques, odd time, etc., but perhaps a little further from being prog in my mind are BT, Aphex Twin, Plaid and Monolake.

Edit...I really should have included these as well...

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream

Redshift - Toll, Colder, Life to Come (I know that is 3, but they are all really nicely done.)









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no particular order

 KLAUS SCHULZE  Timewind
 TANGERINE DREAM   Rubycon (1975)
 JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Oxygène and Equinoxe

BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL - Lucifer Rising

IGOR WAKHÉVITCH - Dr Faust

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (1979)
Klaus Schulze - Mirage (1977)
Klaus Schulze - Timewind (1975)
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (1969)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn (1976)
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Almost too many to list!

Here's a shortlist of perennial favorites in alphabetical order, by artist (I'm sure I'll forget a few).

ARC Blaze
ARC Fracture
AZUMA The Wanderer
PETER BAUMANN Romance '76
PETER BAUMANN Trans Harmonic Nights 
PETER BAUMANN Machines of Desire
SERGE BLENNER La Dimension Prochaine
RICHARD BURMER Mosaic
RICHARD BURMER Bhakti Point
BRIAN ENO with DANIEL LANOIS & ROGER ENO Apollo ~ Atmospheres and Soundtracks
CHRISTOPHER FRANKE The London Concert
EDGAR FROESE Epsilon in Malaysian Pale
EDGAR FROESE Macula Transfer
EDGAR FROESE Ages
EDGAR FROESE Stuntman
EDGAR FROESE Pinnacles
MICHAEL HOENIG Departure from the Northern Wasteland
MICHAEL HOENIG Xcept One
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Equinoxe
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Les Chants Magnétiques
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Rendez-Vous
EDDIE JOBSON Theme of Secrets
KITARO Astral Voyage
KITARO Oasis
KITARO Ki
KITARO Towards the West
RUDIGER LORENZ Invisible Voices
MAJEURE Timespan
MAJEURE Solar Maximum
STEVE MOORE The Henge
STEVE MOORE Light Echoes
STEVE MOORE Pangaea Ultima
STEVE MOORE & MAJEURE Brainstorm
NEURONIUM Digital Dream
PATRICK O'HEARN Ancient Dreams
PATRICK O'HEARN Between Two Worlds
PATRICK O'HEARN Slow Time
QUAESCHNING & SCHNAUSS Synthwaves
STEVE ROACH Now
STEVE ROACH Traveler
STEVE ROACH Structures from Silence (arguably the greatest pure ambient album ever made)
STEVE ROACH Empetus 
STEVE ROACH Dreamtime Return
STEVE ROACH Stormwarning
JOHANNES SCHMOELLING Wuivend Riet
JOHANNES SCHMOELLING Instant City
JOHANNES SCHMOELLING Early Beginnings
JOHANNES SCHMOELLING A Thousand Times
ROBERT SCHROEDER Computer Voice
ROBERT SCHROEDER Brain Voyager
KLAUS SCHULZE Moondawn
KLAUS SCHULZE Mirage
KLAUS SCHULZE Dziekuje Poland 
KLAUS SCHULZE Kontinuum
MARK SHREEVE Assassin
MARK SHREEVE Legion
MARK SHREEVE Crash Head
MARK SHREEVE Collide
MICHAEL SHRIEVE with KLAUS SCHULZE & KEVIN SHRIEVE Transfer Station Blue
MICHAEL SHRIEVE & STEVE ROACH The Leaving Time
SYNERGY Electronic Realizations for Rock Orchestra
SYNERGY Audion
SYNERGY Reconstructed Artifacts
TANGERINE DREAM (everything from Atem through Underwater Sunlight is gold in my book)
VANGELIS L'Apocalypse des Animaux
VANGELIS Heaven and Hell
VANGELIS Albedo 0.39
VANGELIS Beauborg
VANGELIS Opera Sauvage
VANGELIS Blade Runner
VANGELIS Soil Festivities
VANGELIS Direct
VANGELIS Rosetta
ZOMBI Cosmos
ZOMBI Surface to Air
ZOMBI Escape Velocity


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Automat - Automat CD (album) cover

Zombi - Surface To Air CD (album) cover
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There's plenty more, I'm sure...

Klaus Schulze - Mirage (+most everything 1970-1980+++)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (+most everything ca. 1970-1980 & The Green Desert+++)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express ( (+most everything 1970-1984)
Zanov - Green Ray (& Moebius 256 301 + In Course of Time)
Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Sowiesoso)
Emerald Web - The Stargate Tapes
Harmonia - Tracks And Traces (Music Von & Deluxe)
Igor Wakhévitch - Dr. Faust (and everything else)
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene (Equinoxe)
Kosmischer Läufer - Volume III (but really I-IV)
Reinhard Lakomy - Der Traum Von Asgard (Das Geheime Leben)
A La Ping Pong - Go Go Pongs
Mark Shreeve - Phantom (Thougts of War)
Heldon - Stand By (+ the rest)
Sensations Fix - Portable Madness
Sergei Djokanov - The Green Desert
Video Lizst - Ektakrom Killer
Richard Pinhas - Iceland (East/West)
Paul Nagle - The Citadel (Chimera)
Symboter - Matrix
Umberto - From the Grave & Prophecy of the Black Widow (and the rest)
Cybe - Cybonesië: Tropische Klankbeelden
Yello - Solid Pleasure
Lard Free - I'm Around Midnight
Claire Hamill - Voices
Constance Demby - Sacred Space Music
Colin Towns - Full Circle
Fred Myrow & Malcolm Seagrave - Phantasm
Wendy Carlos - Beauty in the Beast
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and of course...
Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

VANGELIS Blade Runner Original Soundtrack 
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL - Lucifer Rising

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (+most everything ca. 1970-1980 & The Green Desert+++)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express ( (+most everything 1970-1984)


I thought about the early (first 4) TD and the first 3 or 4 (if you include Tone Float) Kraftwek, but there isn't much electronics in most of the albums. Some don't include synths or KBs at all.

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Sowiesoso)
Harmonia - Tracks And Traces (Music Von & Deluxe)


I should revisit both. For decades, I (probably wrongly) lumped them in the Kraftwerl clones

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (+most everything ca. 1970-1980 & The Green Desert+++)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express ( (+most everything 1970-1984)


I thought about the early (first 4) TD and the first 3 or 4 (if you include Tone Float) Kraftwek, but there isn't much electronics in most of the albums. Some don't include synths or KBs at all.

Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Cluster - Zuckerzeit (Sowiesoso)
Harmonia - Tracks And Traces (Music Von & Deluxe)


I should revisit both. For decades, I (probably wrongly) lumped them in the Kraftwerl clones

Cluster and Harmonia are well worth a revisitation I think. I don't think they sound like Kraftwerk-clones at all.

Regarding early TD & Kraftwerk - yes I know, but wanted to keep comments short and snappy, I and didn't want it to appear like I don't enjoy the bands earliest releases. So I just included all the years I'm most (most) fond of.


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Originally posted by BrufordFreak BrufordFreak wrote:

As suggested above, there are many albums and artists whose output have touched upon or drawn heavily from the "progressive electronic", so my list may not fit your expectations exactly.

It's very allright, and thank you for considering my expectations.
My "Electronic Prog" is a rather quirky category, so I didn't really see any point in giving a definition of it here, for not to talk about expecting others to try to follow this definition.

For those interested, though, I can refer to my Prog defining article
http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=127835&SID=6216975ab2282e7cc89bc6f99bze40384490741


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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!) 
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Klaus Schulze - X
Radio Massacre International - Emissaries
Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
David Borden - The Continuing Story Of Counterpoint
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Supersilent - 11
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I'm really not that familiar with progressive electronic, except for maybe the odd krautrock album here and there. I'd recommend Wrath by Vayu, though. That came out earlier this year, and I really liked it a lot.
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