Princess
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So lately I've been trying to broaden my musical horizons; a large part of this is trying to listen to lots of earlier electronic music (before dance music was the most well known form of electronic music, before most chipmusic).  I'm mostly interested in the 1960-1985 period.  I've been doing some research, but aside from the more famous stuff (kraftwerk, Wendy Carlos, Brian Eno, etc.), I'm a bit at a loss as to what is still really worth finding & listening to in this day and age.

I'm interested more in classical/ Ambient/noise oriented stuff in this vein.

Anybody have suggestions / care to discuss?

akira^8GB
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Did you get the Pre-Kraftwerk records from Ralf und Florian? I love those.
Check out Synergy, Jean Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder.

Trash80
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Giorgio Moroder for sure.

arlen
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Yellow Magic Orchestra!

Zan-zan-zawa-butt
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you know any of the stuff by Cluster or Klaus Schulze? used to be a fan of that type of thing myself.

nordloef
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sweden

Klaus Wunderlich

ant1
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Tangerine Dream!

herr_prof
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Telstar by the tornados

arfink
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Vangelis. THE electronic music guru from that time period. I suggest Spiral, Heaven and Hell, and The City. Also check out Tomita, who did electronic renditions of classical pieces, especially his rendition of Holst's "The Planets" which is superb.

Esopus-dragon
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Check out Carl Stone "Woo Lae Oak" and "Four Pieces". I have both and they are awesome.

Music from two rather distinct eras the 1960s (Vladimir Ussachevsky, Morton Subotnick), and the 1970 to 1980s (SPK, Laibach) can be found on a promising compliation “An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / Second A-chronology 1936-2003” although I don't have a copy.

Last edited by Esopus-dragon (Jan 27, 2010 9:50 pm)

Saskrotch
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definitely check out  Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music. ranges from 1948-1980. i've got a copy of it somewhere, not sure where though.

this is my favorite track from it
http://www.last.fm/music/Raymond+Scott/ … lectronium

Princess
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Austin, TX

Whoa, thanks for the incredibly fast responses!  I shall try to check out all these suggestions.

Esopus-dragon
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New York, New York

Saskrotch's suggestion sounds awesome, too.

Zombipnok
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Montréal

Delia Derbyshire
Iannis Xenakis
John Cage (mostly experimentation with composition but he made some electronic pieces if I remember well)
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN (he invented almost everything you know in music today)
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Henry
Pierre Schaeffer

Bascically, look for anything around GRM & IRCAM for pre-electronic music era

Last edited by Zombipnok (Jan 27, 2010 10:34 pm)

Esopus-dragon
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Here is some Vladimir Ussachevsky music
http://www.last.fm/music/+noredirect/Vl … ?autostart

Last edited by Esopus-dragon (Jan 27, 2010 10:32 pm)

8bitweapon
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TELEX - 1979: Looking For St. Tropez & 1980: Neurovision
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen 1977 & Equinox 1978
Carlos Futura - Bach For Computer 1979
Mike Hankinson -  The Unusual Classical Synthesizer 1972
Wolfgan Duren - Eyeless Dreams 1980