Syreeta / Stevie Wonder - Black Maybe (1972)

Syreeta / Stevie Wonder - Black Maybe
Label: MoWest
Catalog#: MW 113 L
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1972
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
From: teesnpants
Stevie Wonder producing his then wife Syreeta.

Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt (1984)

Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt
Label: Egyptian Empire Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
From: chadraines

The sound is pretty crappy on this one.

Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop 1983

Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop
Label: Importe/12 Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Disco
Credits: Engineer - Mark Berry
Producer - Man Parrish , Raul A. Rodriguez
From: studio54forever

Killer Electro...

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: MS 7315
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1969
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient
Credits: Producer - David Behrman

Terry Riley is one of the 60's American minimal composers. He was involved in the experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender.

While his early endeavours were influenced by Stockhausen, Riley changed direction after first encountering La Monte Young, in whose Theater of Eternal Music he later performed from 1965-66. Riley has referred to Young as "the freakiest guy I have ever met in my life," stating that it was Young's ideas that were at the heart of minimalism, though more composers have come to name Riley himself as an influence. The String Quartet (1960) was Riley's first work in this new style; it was followed shortly after by a string trio, in which he first employed the repetitive short phrases that he (and minimalism) are now known for.

His music is usually based on improvising through a series of modal figures of different lengths, such as in In C and the Keyboard Studies. In C (1964) is probably Riley's best-known work and one that brought the minimalist music movement to prominence. Its first performance was given by Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, and Morton Subotnick, among others, and it has influenced their work and that of many others, including John Adams and Philip Glass. Its form was an innovation: the piece consists of 53 separate modules of roughly one measure apiece, each containing a different musical pattern but each, as the title implies, in C. One performer beats a steady stream of Cs on the piano to keep tempo. The others, in any number and on any instrument, perform these musical modules following a few loose guidelines, with the different musical modules interlocking in various ways as time goes on. The Keyboard Studies are similarly structured – a single-performer version of the same concept.

This format, with a collection of minimal musical elements coming together to form a complex and cohesive whole, launched a movement that was a step away from the increasing academicism in western classical music. The complex formal structures of the Second Viennese School and the neoclassicists had dominated the classical musical landscape throughout the middle of the 20th century; the minimalistic movement abandoned that formalism. Riley often further denied strict structure by introducing improvisational elements into his compositions (though he had long been improvising in solo performance); one of the primary pieces to use this approach was his A Rainbow In Curved Air (1968). This work and Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, its companion piece on a recording issued in 1969, were intended to give a necessarily truncated impression of the sound of Riley's all-night concerts.

For a time Riley stopped notating his works at all, focusing on Indian classical music and solo performance. Working with the Kronos Quartet has led him back to more structured, notatable music, but improvisatory elements remain an important part even of the works composed for them.

Being on the leading edge of music was nothing new for Riley. Already in the 1950s he was working with tape loops, a technology then in its infancy, and he has continued manipulating tapes to musical effect, both in the studio and in live performance, throughout his career. He has composed in just intonation as well as microtonal pieces.

Riley's collaborators include the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, and, as mentioned, the Kronos Quartet.

He has also had a notable collaboration with Beat poet Michael McClure, with whom he has released several CD's and most recently contributed music to a London revival of his play The Beard.

A Rainbow In Curved Air inspired Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley", the latter apparently named in tribute to Riley as well as to Meher Baba. - wikipedia

Plastikman - Plastique

Plastikman - Plastique
Label: NovaMute
Catalog#: 12 NoMu 34
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: UK
Released: 17 Oct 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Tribal, Techno, Minimal, Acid

Aphex Twin - Polynomial C

Aphex Twin - Polynomial C
Label: R & S Records
Catalog#: RS 95035 CD
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Belgium
Released: Dec 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, IDM

Autechre - Basscadet

Autechre - Basscadet
Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WARP MC 17
Format: Cassette
Country: UK
Released: 29 Nov 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Electro, Ambient
Credits: Co-producer - Darrell Fitton

Autechre's Basscadet from their Incunabula album. IMO when they were at there best... but that's just me :)

Newcleus - Jam On It

Newcleus - Jam On It
Label: Sunnyview Records
Catalog#: SUN-411
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro
Credits: Mixed By - Jonathan Fearing
Producer - Frank Fair , Joe Webb
From: luker256

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Label: WERGO
Catalog#: WER 60009
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1960
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical
Credits: Drums - Christoph Caskel , David Tudor
Electronics - Gottfried Michael Koenig , Karlheinz Stockhausen
Piano - David Tudor
Notes: Originally created in 1959, subtitled "für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug" (for electronic sound, piano and drums).
From: Archosvalens