Aphex Twin 6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music

  On 4/12/2011 at 9:10 AM, Stoppit said:

For anyone that doesn't know it, this is Song Of The Second Moon, by Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt. Their idea was to make the first ever electronic pop song. This was released in 1957. (starts off very jaunty, from 2.25 it's got some Parhelic Triangle thing going on)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

Holy shit!!

If that were released today I would consider it quite original. If I heard it in 1957 it would probably flip my whole world upside down. As far as making the first ever electronic pop song goes, I don't think they really hit the mark. But what a result!

  On 4/11/2011 at 8:53 PM, The Green Kingdom said:

Glad they gave Delia some props, she was all over tape loops and making weird "electronic" music in some really creative ways.

yeah didn't she make something in the 60's that was pretty much acid house music?

  On 4/11/2011 at 3:12 PM, PhonicBoyOnDope said:

Cracked.com funny yet sometimes interesting, someone brought this to my attention because she knows I'm an Aphex Twin fan. So I thought i'd post it here:

 

6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music

 

Fingerbib is the track they link

 

at least Aphex ranks before NIN and Radiohead!

You missed the point. The 1958 track is the groundbreaking one.

Surprised nobody has posted this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd9cxqKCVg

  On 4/12/2011 at 9:10 AM, Stoppit said:

For anyone that doesn't know it, this is Song Of The Second Moon, by Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt. Their idea was to make the first ever electronic pop song. This was released in 1957. (starts off very jaunty, from 2.25 it's got some Parhelic Triangle thing going on)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoAzONw-a4

the beginning sounds like ae's clipper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGm9pY_LPwo

and then it kind of sounds like zomby

  On 4/12/2011 at 10:50 AM, Synthacat 9 said:

Surprised nobody has posted this...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPd9cxqKCVg

i love that video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM8WrrqT3Sw

ok it's only 1987 but still.

How could I forget ... how could YOU guys forget

Raymond Scott

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Scott

First off, the guy is known for his jazzy compositions, wich were later directly copied by composer Carl Stalling for Warner Brothers cartoons, so you definitely have heard music from this man

But the man was also an audio engineer and inventor of electronic instruments

Here are some compositions from the 50's:

60's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuJ82CnEGI

  Quote

Soothing Sounds for Baby is a three-volume set of ambient electronic music by American composer, musician, and inventor Raymond Scott. Scott originally intended to lull infants to sleep with the music, but later generations have found value in the music for its minimalist aspects, often comparing it to the works of Brian Eno, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream despite having predated such artists by more than a decade.

Cool article...thanks.

I haven't gone through the whole list yet but I don't really agree with the Daft Punk/Jean-Jacques Perrey one. It's like they are forgetting disco ever happened. Daft Punk were hardly 'groundbreaking', so really if they want to call out something as 'decades before...' they should have pulled out some late 50s/early 60s electronic as the example, with some disco track as the more modern 'groundbreaking' example. More like the Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan track that was posted, perhaps. Not quite as dancey though...

  On 4/12/2011 at 8:29 AM, MrSparkle666 said:

  On 4/12/2011 at 8:14 AM, jefferoo said:

  On 4/12/2011 at 1:54 AM, mcbpete said:

  On 4/12/2011 at 1:19 AM, jefferoo said:

1940s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNzKZ7lJRUc&feature=related ftw

Hmm, to me that sounds exactly like the kind of music to come from the 1940

um, it's rap.

 

Hardly. I'm with Jefferoo. It doesn't sound any more like rap than a lot of the vocal lines from flapper era jazz:

. I honestly think if this had been 4 white guys, nobody would have even thought twice about it sounding like rap. I can think of half a dozen things that should have made the list before this. Lame.

I don't know if you guys just listened to the first 5 seconds and turned it off. Just because there is singing in the refrain and there isn't any sampled beat in the background doesn't mean it isn't rap.

It is rap before rap. wtf guys.

I just found this clever mix someone did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvCCWcR5dM&feature=fvsr

Nice.

I really dislike that the internet and Cracked always put a "this is scary" vibe around everything AFX.

Aphex twin is not ahead of our time. HE IS IN A TOTAL DIFFERENT PLANE OF REALITY.

  On 4/11/2011 at 4:27 PM, mcbpete said:

Why they didn't include this I have no idea ...

 

 

I remember the first time hearing it on a FSOL DJ set and assuming that it must've been something like an early 2000-era Chemical Brother remix of a Beatles track rather than the untouched original

sounds like "Bloom" from king of limbs

  On 4/15/2011 at 1:36 AM, Boxing Day said:

Aphex twin is not ahead of our time. HE IS IN A TOTAL DIFFERENT PLANE OF REALITY.

  On 4/15/2011 at 3:21 AM, Xyrofen said:

  On 4/15/2011 at 1:36 AM, Boxing Day said:

Aphex twin is not ahead of our time. HE IS IN A TOTAL DIFFERENT PLANE OF REALITY.

 

Nothing like it before or after. End of discussion, no one can duplicate his style..many have tried.

I listen to Neu! everyday. Apart from the Beatles I cant think of any other artist thats been more influential.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiMQ5r5y78g&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLFwp2ID654&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XENiO6TnteE

Wow, that track^ is incredible. Thanks!