Fluorescent Grey - Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 - 1984 Pt 1

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http://www.acroplane.org/content/antique-electronic-synthesizer-greats-1955-1984-part-1

artist: Fluorescent Grey

catalogue no.: ACP077

release date: 15.03.11

1. Dacca Thermotensile Loony Smut Syst

2. Baba Rube Drone Lions

3. Ice Age Fire Loving Zool; Troy

4. Ramadan Greek Winter Trek (aka Coricidin)

5. Chicken Hypnotism

6. Abc Condom Motorist = Trunks Tony

7. Juanita Ciardelli

8. Basal Metabolic Rate Niggle Vishnu; Intr. Slur

9 . Cinema Isn't Soul Sorn

10. Gomez Childs Shult

11. Gunner McRagburn

12. Dead Pink Sphere Pussy Envy

13. Leaf-Laden Amber Hued GUI

14. Abaca Cede, Love to Lie......... Iris Truly

15. Johnny Rocket-Ball

16. Endless Saccharic Acid Deed... Every Show Oozy

17. Calcium Cyclamate: Eighteen Helix Horn Worms

18. Arcjet Penhorn

19. Applebaum Watersnake

20. PPink Sun, Venial Gypsies

21. Where From Tape Deck Ked

22. Would You Say I Have A Plethora Of Piñatas?

23. Rick Santorum Smokes Salvia Divinorum

24 .Abadox

25. Québécoise Italo

26. Pierce Molten Dog Rose

27. The Acroplane Guide to Electronic Music Mix

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In early 2010, what would eventually become Antique Electronic Synthesizer Greats was simply a concept for a live set. Fluorescent Grey, aka Robbie Martin, cut almost a thousand tiny samples and loops from works dating from 1955 to 1984, limiting his sources to strictly electronic and/or synthesized recordings. His rules allowed for non-synthesized compositions (e.g., Delia Derbyshire's tape cutting based tones) as well as synthesizer audio of any kind, including the Hammond Novachord. And far from simply a stolen sample collage, or meta-mash-up project, Robbie wanted to allow the mix he composed to preserve and highlight the eras' best sounds in a comprehensive backdrop. Some of those painstakingly found and excised snippets may be all but indiscernible to most, while some tease with their familiarity (Depeche Mode bass drum? YMO hi hat?), and some are nakedly in homage (synth lines from Vangelis, Giorgio Moroder). All are as playful as the puzzling track names, one of the most obvious of which are pieces that re-imagine the sound of John Carpenter's best synth-centric movie scores. From the uneasy sounds of horror to the sweet spot of vintage synth-pop and industrial, to the brief satisfyingly bizarre vocal cameos by Alan Vega and a Spanish industrial/noise outfit, it runs the gamut of its chosen time period exhaustively.

 

One might wonder, why stop at 1984? or 1983 (the original cutoff)? In all honesty, the cut off year was first altered to make one Zoviet France record eligible. But why is it so important to draw the line in the early 80's when many classic and important electronic albums came out between 1984-1990, Skinny Puppy's Bites or DJ Pierre's Acid Tracks. The answer is simple, until 1984 most music that was 'electronic' relied primarily on synthesizers. Around mid-1983 romplers/samplers become par the course. The techniques sent waves through the electronic music production circles and arguably diluted the powerful earlier sound of acts like Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk (ie electric cafe). Maybe most notably, the Klaus Schulze album 'Dig it' that proclaims the death of a analog on it's opening track. Additionally the rules were not set yet, before rave culture took hold there was a more playful less specific purpose to it all. Lending itself automatically to a more varied feel.

 

Given the uncannily nostalgic or modern moods evoked, it can be all too easy to forget that the entire mix is comprised solely of an endlessly rotating roster of up to 15 isolated loops, all at least a quarter of a century old, some twice that age. On some songs, you could imagine a DJ dialing into the sounds of AFX or Mr. Oizo, an amusing stunt for some of the source material sounds unmistakably dated in a way that has yet to be retrofetishized. Proto-electronica futurism captured in Chris Carter's sequences or Morton Subotnick's Autechre-like FM synth splatters, works that indisputably sound futuristic in their own right. Dated or not, the novelty factor of an overwhelmingly corny synth brass sample is sometimes too good to resist, making it nigh impossible to prevent that old fashioned sound from antiquing the whole mix.

 

This pastiche is offered up in both a mix and an individually tracked album for maximum utility. Use the cover art and the hidden messages contained herein as a resource for your own Antique Electronic Music search. Please feel free to identify the samples sources on the comments for Mixcloud on the comments section for this page.

 

"Like G**lt**k for music geeks"

- Barret / RMS, 2010

 

"Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely 'think' his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of the listener."

- Raymond Scott, 1949

http://www.acroplane.org/content/antique-electronic-synthesizer-greats-1955-1984-part-1

daaaaaaaaaaaaaang

downloaded... can't wait to hear it!

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/abaca-cede-love-to-lie-iris

14. Abaca Cede, Love to Lie......... Iris Truly : cabaret voltaire VS yello VS suicide VS klaus schluze VS esplendor geometrico

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/leaf-laden-amber-hued-gui

13. Leaf-Laden Amber Hued GUI : brad fiedel VS human league Vs throbbing gristle

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/basal-metabolic-rate-niggle

8. Basal Metabolic Rate Niggle Vishnu; Intr. Slur : throbbing gristle VS cultural amnesia VS vangelis

http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/endless-saccharic-acid-deed

16. Endless Saccharic Acid Deed. Every Show Oozy : chris & cosey VS patrick cowley VS severed heads

Jeez man, this is an insanely ambitious project. Hats off man, I look forward spending some time listening to it all

i heard good things about this. so i'm grabbin it

i see your promo blurb answered my question in your mix thread (that you got a cheeky bonus with the bump reply.. nice) and it sounds pretty interesting. It's the kind of obsessive compulsion that I sometimes get but you seem to be able to follow the idea through to it's conclusion. I downloaded it earlier and will probably get a chance to listen over the next couple of days.

absolutely loving these sc previews, DOWNLOADING!

yessir ! gotta love what I've heard so far. nice project, there. gonna download for sure.

also mr grey, im currently addicted to your mj & sonic 3 track, ive played it to friends who have gone down similar paths

  On 3/17/2011 at 12:54 AM, funkaholic said:

absolutely loving these sc previews, DOWNLOADING!

thanks!

  On 3/17/2011 at 12:56 AM, arbee said:

yessir ! gotta love what I've heard so far. nice project, there. gonna download for sure.

  On 3/17/2011 at 12:22 AM, mcbpete said:

Jeez man, this is an insanely ambitious project. Hats off man, I look forward spending some time listening to it all

spent a little too much time on it, but it's the first thing i've done in a long time where i literally finished it days before it was to be released. My new resolution is to not sit on music for too long before i put it out

This looks amazing. Downloading. By the way, and I'm not trying to be "that guy", but I see that it's available in both flac and wav, but were the sourced tracks lossless? I personally grabbed the mp3 version, cuz it's big enough as it is, but am wondering in case I REAAAAALLLLLY like this and decide to get flac later.

good question actually because a small portion of the source material was not lossless, a few loops here and there but i can't say that it isn't noticeable when encoded into the 320kbps you can start to hear a tad of artifacting. I used high enough quality mp3s when i did this so ont he flac and wave versions it's not detectable.

edit: unfortunately it's kind of a catch 22 because the mix and the individual track versions are over 80 minutes long, so no chance of sticking the entire lossless version on an audio cd

just a quick update/correction:

Song 18 'arcjet penhorn' on the mp3 and flac versions gets cut off, its a 7 minute song but on the download only showed up as 3

if you downloaded the zip of either mp3 or flac in the first 24 hours you have the cutoff version of this track, so if you just want to grab the proper version go

otherwise download the entire zip again from the acroplane site

gonna listen to this tonight, really looking forward to it. Also I gotta say, nice job on getting it out on Acroplane. Record Label Records is great and all, but Acroplane is a really good place to be right now.

this is the song that cut off - http://soundcloud.com/fluorescentgrey/arcjet-penhorn

the longest track on the album

homage to Mr. John Carpenter

Cannot recommend this highly enough, fantastic work.

We'd really appreciate people spreading the word about this one for us. It's hard to get sites to review free music, and this really does deserve peoples attention.

I know we tend to scrape against each other on the board, but that should explain just how stoked I am to hear you pull off DE:9 on a manly scale!

yup good shit is this

it has that feeling of recognition but without knowing exactly what it is. its a beautiful thing

Nice work! Very impressed

This is kind of what I expected to hear only better, but at the same time not the sort of album I expected you to come up with, if that all makes sense. I really like it. My appreciation's made all the more seeing 'Dare' on the artwork collage...

Really feeling this! The way you mixed this all together, reminds me of a midwest dj mix, like booty house from early/mid 90s or something. A+ work

  On 3/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, acidphakist said:

I know we tend to scrape against each other on the board, but that should explain just how stoked I am to hear you pull off DE:9 on a manly scale!

thanks bra. I must admit DE9 was a huuuuge inspiration in getting this together.

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Zwischen Kompendium & Neuheit!

 

VÖ: 2011 Label: Acroplane Recordings

 

Genre: Electro, Pop, Industrial Format: Download

 

Robert Martin – seines Zeichens Chef der amerikanisch -en Vorzeigemanufaktur Record Label Records, brachte jüngst mit sei- nem vielseitigen Projekt Fluorescent Grey ein Kompendium an Samples & Loops heraus, die aus dem Zeitraum 1955 – 1984 datieren & Selek- tion über die Begebenheit, elektronisch oder mittels Synthesizer er- stellt, fanden (und anschließend in neuen Stücken endeten).

 

“Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 – 1984 Part 1″ erblickte als kostenfreier Download über das Belfaster Label Acroplane Recor- dings das Licht der Welt, welches seit Jahren eine üppige Bandbreite an “Tanzmusik” offenbart, die grantiert nicht jedem zusagt!

 

Für die Nachwelt sichern, dürfte das Hauptanliegen von Robert Martin bei dieser Arbeit sein, deren Aufnahmen im ursprünglichen Sinne nur für ein Liveset vorgesehen waren & nun einzeln wie auch als Mix allen Interessierten zur Verfügung stehen. In schnelllebigen Zeiten wie diesen, wo viele Dinge (auch Musik) im Nichts verschwinden, bilden Zusammenstellungen wie “Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 – 1984 Part 1″ eine gute Gelegenheit, um die glorreiche Vergangenheit von Electro, Pop & Disco noch einmal Revue passieren zu lassen, ohne dabei den “alten Kram” noch einmal aufzukochen!

 

Sämtliches zu vernehmendes Material auf “Antique Electronic / Synthesizer Greats 1955 – 1984 Part 1″ schnitt der Amerikaner aus verschiedensten Medien zusammen, woraus er nicht wahllos völlig neue Tracks kreierte, sondern zeitangepasste Tondokumente, welche an Interpreten wie Zoviet France, Skinny Puppy, DJ Pierre, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Giorgio Moroder usw. gemahnen, weshalb dieses Release gerade “älteres” Publikum bedient, das die vorher genannten Akteure zu seinen absoluten Topfavoriten zählt.