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Points: 28113 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2015 at 16:58
Since last posting here I picked up Vangelis - Invisible Connections. I remember being shocked when I first heard it about 20 years ago but actually its not too bad at all when you hear it on a decent hi fi. Still a bit weird though. I also got the remaster recently of Jarre's Rendez- Vous which has long been one of my favourite electronic albums. Sounds even better now and thankfully they have now straightened out the separation of tracks on the CD.
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I don't have a lot of Progressive Electronic music, but some of my faves are

Klaus Schulze-Moondawn
Jurgen Fritz-Hard To Be A God (soundtrack)
Galactic Explorers-Epitaph For Venus
Edgar Froese-Aqua
Synergy-Electronic Realisations For Rock Orchestra


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^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD?
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD?
It used to be, but it is long out of print.
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The new cd by Arc (Umbra) is excellent.  I also had the pleasure to see these guys (Ian Boddy and Mark Shreeve) live in November and that was a superb gig.  It gave me the chance to pick up a very obscure cd by Redshift too, so all the better.

Another tremendous electronic cd I got recently is Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way To Fall.  He is not an artist that is on pa but if you know his music you'll agree he's a good fit (he is currently a member of Tangerine Dream, at least their touring incarnation).  If you like moody, atmospheric instrumental music with a slight Berlin School influence you'll probably like this.
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Radio Massacre International is really an underrated band.I love the way they use guitar and mellotron in their music.Emissaries and Rain Falls in Grey are highly recommended.
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD?
It used to be, but it is long out of print.
 
I buy some of my CD's from this place and they still list it on their catalogue
 
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Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Radio Massacre International is really an underrated band.I love the way they use guitar and mellotron in their music.Emissaries and Rain Falls in Grey are highly recommended.
 
Need to check out this band , been aware of them for ages but never taken the plunge. The supplier CD services mentioned above lists them as one of their top sellers over the last 10 years or so.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

^^I didn't know Jurgen did a soundtrack. Is it available on CD?
It used to be, but it is long out of print.
 
I buy some of my CD's from this place and they still list it on their catalogue
 
 
Ah, C&D in Dundee. I used to get their print catalogues. I looked on YT and only found "Finale/Epilogue."
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Radio Massacre International is really an underrated band.I love the way they use guitar and mellotron in their music.Emissaries and Rain Falls in Grey are highly recommended.
 
Need to check out this band , been aware of them for ages but never taken the plunge. The supplier CD services mentioned above lists them as one of their top sellers over the last 10 years or so.

Rain Falls in Grey is Floydian psychedelic/space rock album with many guitars.Emissaries is a TD-esque electronic album.You better start with Emissaries.
There are mp3 samples on their website for each album which can help you.


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Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by aliano aliano wrote:

Radio Massacre International is really an underrated band.I love the way they use guitar and mellotron in their music.Emissaries and Rain Falls in Grey are highly recommended.
 
Need to check out this band , been aware of them for ages but never taken the plunge. The supplier CD services mentioned above lists them as one of their top sellers over the last 10 years or so.

Rain Falls in Grey is Floydian psychedelic/space rock album with many guitars.Emissaries is a TD-esque electronic album.You better start with Emissaries.
There are mp3 samples on their website for each album which can help you.

 
This band has such an enormous catologue of music I doubt anybody has the whole lot!  I personally have 10 of theirs and I could not possibly recommend you start with Emissaries as it's the weakest of theirs I've heard.  Knutsford In May is probably the best cd I've got, recorded live under the dish at Jodrell Bank.  It just oozes atmosphere.  Solid States is a very good double album, a few weaker tracks but several gems.  The best music I've heard by them though is on the live dvd "M21".  The music really is exceptional - a 5 star electronic gem with plenty of spacey Floyd-esque sections.  Unfortunately it only appears available on dvd, a real shame.
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This topic has opened my interest into electronic music more. I used to think most electronic music barely had any variation in songs.
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Points: 17263 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 18:10
A great article here, especially for the less travelled where 70s electronic music is concerned:
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Originally posted by Akuphex Akuphex wrote:

This topic has opened my interest into electronic music more. I used to think most electronic music barely had any variation in songs.
Reading some of these posts has also made me pull out some of my seventies electronic music.
In the last couple of days I have listened to:
Symphonic Slam's self titled first album from 1976
Stratosfear by Tangerine Dream also from 1976
Nipponjin by Far East Family Band from 1975
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Points: 23104 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2015 at 13:38
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

Not every release ooze rawk though, but they do incorporate instruments a Led Zeppelin fan would recognise.

The question then is, how do you get the rock crowd to take the final plunge and listen to something that is completely bereft of drums, guitars and bass? 
Lustmord? 
LOL Nahh scratch that...

Oh and before I skedaddle, then I'll let you in on my favourite track to start the day with - especially nice for when you're brushing your teeth:
 


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LOL
Love your ducks Pierre.
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^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.
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