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I recently finished reading "Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer" (a damn good read) and it's led me to some interesting artists and albums, so I thought I'd throw some names out. Beaver & Krause: The Nonesuch Guide To Electronic Music. These two were highly influential in the late 60s in regards to the moog and this album is just great - the descriptive titles mean that the sounds would be fairly easy to emulate on softsynths. White Noise. This group comprised of the legendary Delia Derbyshire, David Vorhaus and Brian Hodgson. Check out An Electric Storm and Concerto for Synthesizer. There are plenty of cheesy moog albums from the late 60s and early 70s but I particularly liked Everything You Always Wanted To Hear On The Moog from '67 which has a very nice rendition of Ravel's Bolero. Another classically-themed album is Then there is Klaus Schulze a prolific German electronic music composer. I've only heard Irrlicht so far - slightly similar to early Tangerine Dream (before they went cheesy synth in the 80s). Keeping German, check out the eponymous album by Cluster from 1971, a band who included Brian Eno collaborators Moebius and Roedelius Mort Garson another early electronic composer noted for use of the moog synthesizer, check out Lucifer: Black Mass from 1971 and Electronic Hair Pieces from 1969. An interesting oddity is Sitar & Electronics from 1971 by Okko, which includes a couple of great Beatles cover version (Ophecks take not, and note Marty Gold's The Moog Plays The Beatles which is a whole album devoted to The Beatles - The Beatles were a popular band to cover, particularly Hey Jude. The album The Age Of Electronicus features covers of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da and Blackbird |
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Ruth White is another eccentric moogist.. have a listen to the strange Flowers Of Evil for evidence of this, and also check out Short Circuits. Also check out Walter Sear’s superbly named The Copper Plated Integrated Circuit for more moog cheese. A less well-known but worthy Wendy Carlos album is Sonic Seasonings which is extremely minimal ambient music from the very early 70s. Two great early electronic bands are Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. and Tonto’s Expanding Head Band - it’s well worth getting their albums, particularly Tonto’s eponymous album which is superb. Finally a couple of composers not really electronic but worth listening to : Terry Riley and Pierre Henry; I think they would appeal to listeners of electronic music. |
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Thank you for the recommendation, amazon here i come. |
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Don't forget Parmegiani and Morton Subotnick! The Wild Bull is a classic. |
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I was thinking of mentioning Subotnick but the only piece I've heard from his was from the 80s so I left him out - but the piece I heard I did like. |
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I'd just like to point out that there is a hell of a lot of better electronic music from before the moog. Listen to the early radiophonic stuff for example. Not a moog in sight, yet wonderful wonderful sounds. Check out this great documentary . (Site is having problems at the moment - I believe it still exists though) Anyway, apart from the ubiquitous moog filter, the rest of the moogs are overrated. I'd much rather have a VCS3 or a Synthi A or something with some character. |
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always interesting to listen to electronic music, from the early days, technology was limited, but in now way restrictive, some great music is floating about out there... it's worth digging around for it |
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Thanks for the recommendations, fellas. I've heard a bit of Subotnik's stuff from my days at the university, and will definitely be giving some of these albums a try. I almost bought an album called "Moog Strikes Bach" which is classical music redone with analog synths, but ended up spending the money on a couple albums for my dad (saving for christmas) in stead. Dave: thanks for rekindling my desire to own , although now I'm depressed I can't have it. jerk. :) |
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The book didn't just deal with the Moog, it dealt with the Bochla box, ARP etc - there a quite a few people I've listed who used the Moog (most of those also used other synths and electronic devices), but it's not all completely Moogcentric. |
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VCS3 is a lovely synth. It sounds really organic doesn't it. You can put the CV's through the reverb (!) I've been investigating doing a memorised pin matrix for my homemade synth (which still exists only on paper). Unfortunately there is no clever/elegant way to do it - there will just be tons of switching gubbins. I've got a copy of the VCS3 circuits and they've certainly inspired a few of my ideas. I've got a lot of respect for EMS, streets ahead of Bob Moog and co. Just look at from 1969! |
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as for whitenoise - an electric storm klaus schulze and most other 70s stuff i heard: its lacking beat. i liked the psycho-bands from that time a lot more (just a lot more entertaining and playing the beauty and the beast) |
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a nice video of a buchla 200 in action... nice music, too. |
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no mention of BRUCE HACK? i caught terry riley's show once |
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it's bruce haack it's also awesome |
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yeah thats probally the most popular album, that guy also made hundreds of childs music albums. i always tell people his music style was ripped off by that douche bag frank zappa. |
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That is awesome! For the record that is the only musical instrument I've ever seen with a key for the on/off switch. And the 60x60 pin patch-bay - such a unique and interesting design. Thanks for the link. |
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yes, bruce haack is very awesome but sadly a bit overlooked by everyone, he only gained popularity when he died :/ does doris norton count or is that too late? |
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awesome topic. i'm gonna try and check out as much of this as possible. electric storm by white noise is sick, espicially the first track. wouldn't of been able to appreciate this album/music if i didn't know about how it was created, which i only found out about after watching 'alchemists of sound'. dunno if this is the same doco dave_g was talking about but it's pretty awesome (regardless of the hairy dude standing in the shadows) |
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Lots of Buchla, some Serge and SynthiA. Very abstract, some nice sounds. |
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Seems like an interesting book. Btw, Klaus Schulze was the drummer in one of the first lineups of Tangerine Dream. My fave album from his solo career is "Timewind" from 1975. 2 x 30 min of ambient bliss. Pre-moog lectronic music. Dont forget the |
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Yes "Alchemists of Sound" was what I was linking to. It looks like that site is still down. I suggest grabbing it off a torrent site, or wait for BBC to repeat it (probably BBC4, maybe BBC2). It is an excellent documentary, well worth your attention unlike most of the crap on tv. |
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Thanks for the extra input, material and suggestions - looking forward to delving deeper. Co-ex: Will check out that album thanks and look into Trautonium :) |
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i watched it on youtube a month or so ag.o it's diveded into 10minute parts starting with |
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I've tried to find Ruth White bio on the web but found nothing so far.....perhaps i should try and find the book you mentioned. I think she could be counted as one of the great three females of electronic music apart from Delia and Wendy Carlos. - i managed to find only this on youtube |
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Mort Garson is amazing. Astounding |
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