awesome, obscure and experimental synth music from the 60s, 70s and 80s

  On 1/28/2016 at 3:17 PM, joshuatx said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qADmHaVZ74M

Jack Dangers of MBM fame remade that soundtrack:

PS great thread. I have a soft spot for the synth-based side projects of the various Genesis fellas, e.g.

Other shit I have lying about

former watmmer fluorescent grey did a multi-part synth music mix years ago, there was even an accompanying thread

here's part 3, I think the first one sadly disappeared from the interwebs

  On 2/2/2016 at 3:06 PM, joshuatx said:

former watmmer fluorescent grey did a multi-part synth music mix years ago, there was even an accompanying thread

 

here's part 3, I think the first one sadly disappeared from the interwebs

wicked, love his synth mixes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrQ_iFPnT3k&index=211&list=PL0ZzZ9Db6niRicHtnaylJOfmu0nDHwokE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tltz1Mxh9Bg&list=PL0ZzZ9Db6niSv8md-RZBkIxaNMLQg5JHU&index=26

Bump! The Syrinx stuff got reissued last year apparently, I ordered the 3LP today. Only cost about £33 to get it shipped from the US. Neat-o!

https://rvng.bandcamp.com/album/tumblers-from-the-vault

A good-hearted, wholesome bump indeed ^

First things that come to mind:

(i'd highly recommend the entire album The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre)

(again, i'd recommend the entire album of School Daze)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlBo1y5Ey3A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JTeT4vIkxc

Not super obscure or super experimental but I've been really listening to a ton of Neuronium over the last year or so.  Big, epic-soundtrack kind of sound like later Ash Ra stuff but more rough edged, almost a Hawkwind kind of feel at times.

Also seconding the Mort Garson and Bruton Music stuff hard.

I guess Jeff and Jane Hudson are kind of a known thing now but when I was working at a record store in the mid 2002swe couldn't even get $10 for unplayed originals, in-store or on eBay.

Australian Cybotron is pretty great, too.

possible repost:

Soviet era blokes who knew their shit can be found via tracks like Oleg Buloshkin's "Sacrament" & Alfred Schnittke's "Steam", came out on the "Archive ANS: '64-'71" compilation reissue:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Electroshock-Presents-Electroacoustic-Music-Volume-IV-Archive-Tapes-Synthesizer-ANS-1964-197/release/235627

Also featured Edward Ariemiev, who did the Andrei Tarkovsky's soundtracks to "Solyaris", "Mirror" & "Stalker", priceless capsules of the unfathomable as sound:

https://www.discogs.com/Eduard-Artemiev-Electronic-Music-Experiment-Studio-Ensemble-Original-Soundtrack-From-Mosfilm-Solaris/master/315530

https://www.discogs.com/Edward-Artemiev-Stalker-The-Mirror-Music-From-Andrey-Tarkovskys-Motion-Pictures/release/4837584?ev=rr

everything by Holger Czukay, the man's legacy is truly radiant, grip everything he ever featured on, plus the Jah Wobble collabs are mint

Walter Wegmuller - Tarot lp.....moments of transcendental harmonics, complete with a roster of contempory German musicians that need no intro; Klaus Schultze, Manel Gottsching, Dieter Dierks, plus unheralded synth-freak Harald Großkopf. Gotta pick your tracks, but the aces in the pack justify multiple decades-long listening:

https://www.discogs.com/Walter-Wegm%C3%BCller-Tarot/master/101374

much cheaper cd re-issue):

https://www.discogs.com/Walter-Wegm%C3%BCller-Tarot/release/373829

The soundtrack to The Holy Mountain by Jodorowsky & groove maestro Don Cherry has some otherworldly gems. Cherry excels on this & its a huge pers favourite. From psychedelic baroque, to Tibetan rituals, to synth chicanery..... quite a few labels have put out versions and the role of Allen Klein (sp?) in the film rights debacle nearly stained its provenance, but not the magic of the original recordings themselves. A must buy, this is a recent re-release compared to my Dad's battered original:

https://www.discogs.com/Alejandro-Jodorowsky-The-Holy-Mountain-The-Original-Soundtrack/release/7114889

The 1978 British film "The Shout" is well worth tracking down for an immersion in electroacoustic synth madness, composed but never released by Tony Banks. John Hurt plays an electroacoustic composer/sound engineer/field-recording maker who A) has ties to a local asylum & B) receives visit from a (possible) patient at the hospital played by Alan Bates (but who might be something else entirely) & tells the story of an Aboriginal shouting technique that can kill. Blah blah, but if you listen v carefully during a viewing the sound design & synth work is utterly spell-binding, a highly under-rated horror with oodles of weird synth juxtapositions & a sonic universe thats rarely been bettered.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078259/

Goes w/out really saying (but lemme gush a mo) everything by Cabaret Voltaire, between "Voice of America" & "Drinking Gasoline" for layering in grooves to die for & making sounds that succeeded where in lesser production hands/ears they woulda dissolved into a dissonant mess. After that "Sensoria" nailed the bar so high, but then majority of CV's & RHK's solo work is outside the temporal threshold. "Disposable Half Truths" and its indescribable "Synesthesia", plus the Burroughs inspired "Ugly Spirit", are fuckin mint. Equally, Mute put out a comp of unreleased material a while back from the 70's/early 80's called "Earlier/Later (Unreleased '74-'89).....check the "piano" series of wtf's. May the gods bless Sheffield:

you could write an entire thesis on this subject/era, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Parmegiani from various schools of practice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlCg_2pK1oM

"Across the Lake of the Ancient World" is something v v specials

https://youtu.be/Hcos1twObz0?t=21m

(it was a looooooooong day, a vape might be to blame 4 waffle)

^enriching, and noted