Electric Kingdom

Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (1989)

2007-10-18T13:37:00.000-07:00

Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino
Label: DFC
Catalog#: DFC 0017
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Italy
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: House
Credits: Featuring - Carolina Damas

From: Nasipwondi

Sueno Latino is one of the most influential house tracks of all time. Essentially an updated version of Manuel Gottschings timeless E2-E4. It has been remixed by Derrick May and others. Those little bird chirps at the state and all that heavy breathing used to haunt me mind when I was younger.

Rufige Cru - Dark Rider (1992)

2007-10-18T13:19:00.000-07:00

Rufige Cru - Dark Rider
Label: Reinforced Records
Catalog#: RIVET 1224
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore, Jungle
Notes: Runout grooves read: "PR-M"

From: misseverything2

Classic stuff from one of my favourite labels. Reinforced and Suburban Bass were most definitely the leaders of the packs.

Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny (2005)

2007-10-18T13:11:00.000-07:00

Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny
Label: Warp Films
Catalog#: WF003 DVD
Format: DVD
Country: UK
Released: 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

From: TheLiquidLight

Weird films and granular synthesis... a match made in hell :)

Raymond Scott - Lightworks (Late 50s???)

2007-10-18T12:51:00.000-07:00

It's tough to get an accurate date on this one. Suffice to say it's from the late 50's early 60's. Raymond Scott, as some will know, is one of the very early electronic musicians. Accredited (although not by himself) with desiging and building one of the very first synthesizers he never really saw himself as an artist. He preferred to make little jingles, music for children and audio experiments. The above 'Lightworks' refers to a line of cosmetics from the late 50s/early 60s featuring eye shadow, blush and lipstick.

Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Mix) 1981

2007-10-18T12:47:00.000-07:00

Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Mix)
Label: Unidisc
Catalog#: SPEC-1368
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
thanks to djisfan

you can find more about Larry Levan at JahSonic.com

Syreeta / Stevie Wonder - Black Maybe (1972)

2007-08-26T12:00:00.000-07:00

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)

2007-08-26T11:54:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-26T11:50:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-26T11:42:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-26T11:29:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-26T11:25:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-06T11:31:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

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

2007-08-06T11:17:00.000-07:00

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

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: ???

2007-07-28T13:47:00.000-07:00

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: ???
Vertical Tangent a film poem by eric gamalinda; with early electronic music (1952,1953) by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

I don't know what to say about this other than it's from the early 50's. I can't find the exact track as I'm not sure of the name. You could check out Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD. This track might not be on it but both musicians are featured so...

Mtume - Juicy Fruit

2007-07-28T13:34:00.000-07:00

Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Label: Epic
Catalog#: TA 3424
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Synth-pop
From: foodhill

Check out Juicy Fruit

Acen - Trip II the Moon (Part 1)

2007-07-26T19:32:00.000-07:00

Label: Production House
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore
From: Monsunamii

Acen's notes on this release: "Written & produced in the late summer of 1992
on the MPC-60 - JD800 & W30. The haunting square wave melody in the intro came to me in a dream which also inspired the piano line."

check out Best Of Hardcore 4 there;s a lot of killer old school hardcore tracks on there - Hold it down, 4Hero - cook ya brain, acen -trip to the moon. Classics :)

2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down

2007-07-26T19:25:00.000-07:00

2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down
Label: Moving Shadow
Catalog#: SHADOW 14
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore
Credits: Producer - Rob Playford
From: ninokawasaki

check out Best Of Hardcore 4 there;s a lot of killer old school hardcore tracks on there - Hold it down, 4Hero - cook ya brain, acen -trip to the moon. Classics :)

4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare

2007-07-26T19:11:00.000-07:00

4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
Title: Mr Kirks Nightmare
Label: Reinforced
Year: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, House, Hardcore, Jungle
From: Monsunamii

FSOL: The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman

2007-07-25T05:41:00.000-07:00

FSOL: The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman
Label: Virgin Records (UK)
Catalog#: CDV 2755
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 05 Dec 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Experimental, Ambient
from: Odin Ibn Hvelgemer

"Infamous British duo who met in the 1980's in Manchester. Their very influential discography shows off influences spanning acid house, hardcore techno, ambient, krautrock, 60's psychedelica, and more. Previously Dougans, as Humanoid, had a UK Top 10 hit with Stakker Humanoid. Together as FSOL, they scored a major crossover success with Papua New Guinea. Their first full-length Accelerator charted their dancefloor-friendly early career, after which FSOL moved into deeper, more album-oriented word. Lifeforms was a double-disc set spanning long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience, followed Dead Cities which added hip-hop, trip-hop, industrial textures, and bleak urban imagery into their mix of influences. Their ISDN album compiled music from their ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts from the mid-1990's. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they dropped off the radar. After a long hiatus in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction, the Papua New Guinea Translations concept remix album came out, followed by the full-length The Isness (Official Version) and more material under the Amorphous Androgynous name." - Discogs

check out FSOL: ISDN

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

2007-07-25T05:31:00.000-07:00

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Label: London Records
Catalog#: LONXR 103
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Hi-NRG
From: DubboyVloox

Jimmy Summerville with the Hi-NRG classic Don't Leave Me This Way. Check out the Platinum Collection.

Goldfrapp: Ooh La La

2007-07-24T04:59:00.000-07:00

Goldfrapp: Ooh La La
Label: Mute Records Ltd.
Format: CD, Maxi-Single, Promo
Country: UK
Released: Jul 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
Mixed By - Mark "Spike" Stent
From: svenge

I thought this sounded very similiar to the Timelords (KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis. It uses a glitter beat and has a similiar sound. Not too surprising considering Mark "Spike" Stent mixed both of them. The Brits do seem to like mixing Glitter beats with synth-pop.

check out Goldfrapp: Supernature

Cars - Gary Numan

2007-07-24T04:54:00.000-07:00

Cars - Gary Numan
Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BEG 23
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 24 Aug 1979
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
From: TheMidnightEddros1

check out Numans' 1979 LP The Pleasure Principle

Tour de France: François Kevorkian

2007-07-23T13:32:00.000-07:00

Tour de France: François Kevorkian
Label: EMI Music (Netherlands)
Catalog#: 1A K062-20 0338 6
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
From: tuneseeker

I always prefered this version of Tour de France over the original. François Kevorkian is one of the originals from the disco era. He started DJing in the late 70's and through the influence of the Latin Rascals and others started producing tape edits of popular tracks. The above track is one of his better known tape edits/remix.

"From early DJ gigs in the disco wonderland of late-'70s New York City to his current stint at Manhattan's Body and Soul, Kevorkian has been at dance music's epicenter — be it disco, new wave or house — since its inception. As a producer, mixer and remixer, he's worked with Larry Levan, Arthur Baker, The Smiths, The Cure, Cabaret Voltaire, U2, Eurythmics, Ashford and Simpson, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and Yazoo and others. Disco devotees will remember his Gold-certified mix of Musique's “Push Push in the Bush” issued on Prelude Records, the influential disco label he helped run as head of A&R from 1978 to 1982. In 1987, he opened the recording facility Axis Studios, which has attracted leading artists such as Madonna, Todd Terry, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige." - Jahsonic

check out Remixes, Vol. 5: Francois Kevorkian. The Kraftwerk remix isn't on that you'll have to get the 12" and Amazon don't do 12's :) - maybe have a look at HTFR.

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon

2007-07-23T12:57:00.000-07:00

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog#: KC 32731
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Jazz-Funk
From: Chameleon41

Herbie Hancock at the very start of his Jazz-Funk Period. Headhunters, the album Chameleon is from, is reportedly the greatest selling Jazz album of all time. The most unusual thing about Headhunters for me is that it was recorded about 5 months after Sextant. While Sextant is a very dark, moody, spaced out abstract album Headhunters is much more straight ahead funk. I think most Jazz fans at the time felt Herbie was selling out to commercial success. Personally I think somebody with that much funk in them "just gots to be funky" :) All throughout Headhunter you can hear Herbie playing on the Arp Soloist, Arp Odyssey, Fender Rhodes and Hohner Clavinet... so all in all jazz had become almost completey plugged in.

check out Hebie Hancock: Headhunters

Tomita: The Engulfed Cathedral

2007-07-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

Tomita: The Engulfed Cathedral
Label: RCA Red Seal
Catalog#: ARL1-0488
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1974
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical
From: trichoone

In the late 1960s, he turned his attention to electronic music after hearing albums by Wendy Carlos in which Wendy performed classical music with the Moog synthesizer. Isao acquired a Moog III synthesizer and began building his home studio. He started arranging Claude Debussy's pieces for synthesizer and in 1974 the album Snowflakes are Dancing was released; it became a worldwide success.

Tomita has performed a number of outdoor "Sound Cloud" concerts, with speakers surrounding the audience in a "cloud of sound". He gave a big concert in 1984 at the annual contemporary music Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria called "Mind of the Universe", live mixing tracks in a glass pyramid suspended over an audience of 80,000 people.

check out Snowflakes Are Dancing

Conrad Schnitzler: Cassette Concert

2007-07-22T14:51:00.000-07:00

Conrad Schnitzler:
Cassette Concert
exerpt of a cassette concert - music composed by conrad schnitzler - remixed by wolfgang 'sequenza' seidel

Conrad Schnitzler (b. Düsseldorf, 1937) has been a major, though reclusive, figure on the European music scene since the late 1960s. Schnitzler was one of the founding members of Tangerine Dream, and later the band Kluster. He left both bands soon, to focus on his solo-work. He continued to record from his home studio in Dallgow, Germany, creating CD-Rs which he sells independently. - wikipedia

"He began working with non-keyboard analog synthesizers and amplified acoustic instruments in the late 1960's. He is known as a pioneer of electro-acoustic music, with over thirty records released internationally on both major labels and independent labels, as well as being credited with starting the independent home composing and production movement.

What is a Cassette Concert?

A Cassette Concert is a method of composing and performing electronic music in a dynamic way. It was developed by Conrad Schnitzler in Berlin but is now being used by composers around the world including David Myers and Gen Ken in New York City, David Prescott in Boston, Michael Chocholak in Oregon, Giancarlo Tonuitti in Italy, Serge Leroy in Paris, and Jorg Thomasius in East Berlin. A Cassette Concert consists of a group of recorded cassettes containing single tracks of a larger composition, intended for live performances that can be given anywhere in the world, at any time, by anybody. When these groups of cassettes are played simultaneously, the combined sounds constitute the basic, although variable, form of the composition. The number of cassettes is also variable--from two cassettes in its simplest form, to any number of cassettes physically possible or needed. Most cassettes are recorded in stereo, so for optimal listening each cassette should have its own amplification system, with the speakers placed at opposite ends of the space. However, the realization of a Cassette Concert is flexible and can also be played on separate portable tape machines (stereo or mono) without additional amplification." - read a much more detailed history HERE.

Con is still making music and releasing. Have a look at his most recent album Trigger Trilogy or go to the root and have a look at Con

Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár

2007-07-21T17:03:00.000-07:00

Venetian Snares - Szamár Madár
Label: Planet Mu
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 14 Mar 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, Breakcore, Jungle
Credits: Producer, Written-By - Aaron Funk
From: be7k

check out the album Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

Iannis XENAKIS: Le Polytope de Cluny

2007-07-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

Iannis XENAKIS: Le Polytope de Cluny
Polytope de Cluny, premièred on October 13, 1972 and presented until January 1974. In all, nearly 100,000 tickets were sold. Installed within the Roman baths of Cluny on boulevard Saint-Michel in Paris, the light show was generated by a computer that controlled the 600 some white electronic flashes and 400 mirrors that reflected green, red and blue laser beams. The sound element was an 8-track electroacoustic tape that Xenakis realized in the Studio Acousti.
From: JuanPedrotti

check out CCMIX: New Electroacoustic Music From Paris

Squarepusher - Come on My Selector

2007-07-21T09:06:00.000-07:00

Squarepusher - Come on My Selector
Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WAP 92
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: UK
Released: 21 Jul 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass, Jungle, Experimental
From: M8

Check out Squarepusher: Big Loada

Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (Aphrodite Remix)

2007-07-21T08:58:00.000-07:00

Jungle Brothers - Jungle Brother (True Blue) (Aphrodite Remix)
Label: Jungle Brothers (White)
Catalog#: BROTHER 002
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: Jun 2003
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass, Jungle
From: krebain

check out This Is Jungle Brothers

Jeff Mills - The Bells

2007-07-21T08:44:00.000-07:00

Jeff Mills - The Bells
Label: Purpose Maker
Catalog#: PM-020
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 03 Feb 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Tribal, Techno
From: BelfastPlayBoy

In going on to create his own music Jeff Mills is credited with laying the foundations for legendary Detroit Techno collective, Underground Resistance, alongside 'Mad' Mike Banks, a former Parliament bass player. Just like Public Enemy did some years before in hip hop, these men confronted the mainstream music industry with revolutionary rhetoric. Dressed in uniforms with skimasks and black combat suits, they were ‘men on a mission’, aiming at giving techno more content and meaning.

Mills would never leave UR officially, but later on he still went his own way. He moved to New York and after a short stay in Berlin (Tresor) ended up in Chicago. There in 1992, with Robert Hood, he set up his most important record label, Axis, aiming for a simpler more minimal sound than most of the techno being produced in those years.Later sub-labels were announced Purposemaker, Tomorrow, and 6277. - wikipedia

check out Jeff Mills: Blue Potential

Portishead - Humming

2007-07-21T08:36:00.000-07:00

Portishead - Humming
Label: Go! Beat
Catalog#: 539 189-2
Format: CD
Country: Europe
Released: Oct 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trip Hop, Downtempo
from: isobelmoon

check out Portishead: Portishead

Burial - Gutted

2007-07-21T08:18:00.000-07:00

Burial - Gutted
Label: Hyperdub
Catalog#: HDBCD001
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 15 May 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dubstep, Abstract, Downtempo
Credits: Engineer - Kode9
from: tognaccini

Deep, lyrical and wet with electronic soul, Burials self titled album has to be the best electronic album of 2006. Burials programming skills are unquestioned and I think he has some of the best hi-hat patterns going. In this track he uses the sample of a gun being cocked as part of the hi-hat track. If you haven't heard the album you can check out another few tracks on the BBC website HERE.

or you could check out the album Burial: Burial

Duran Duran - Notorious (The Latin Rascals Mix)

2007-07-20T15:45:00.000-07:00

Duran Duran - Notorious (The Latin Rascals Mix)
Label: EMI Music (Netherlands)
Catalog#: 1C K060-20 1568 6
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Producer - Nile Rodgers
from: Duranism

THE LATIN RASCALS

Tony began his career with partner Albert Cabrera as The Latin Rascals in the early 80's. Their exciting style of fast paced chopped up rhythms were created by numerous razor blade edits on the master tape.

"I didn't realise we were being pioneering at the time!", Tony points out, though. "Every time I'd play what I'd done to someone else they'd say 'You're a maniac!'. You tend to create out of necessity sometimes and I didn't realise that what I was doing was crazy because it's a step by step process and doesn't feel like it's crazy at the time you're creating it. I was a mobile DJ and, back then, shared the same problem with many other DJs - the intros and breaks were rarely long enough. Take Chic "Good Times", for example. I wanted that bass break to be longer so I didn't want to have to keep mixing back and forth all the time. I bought a reel-to-reel and taught myself how to edit on it and began to create extended versions of all my favourite records. After a while I got so involved into the technical side of it that I was doing all these new kinds of 'multiple edits', taking a piece of one rhythm and incorporating it into another part of the record to create a whole new rhythm." - read the rest of this article HERE.

It's unbelievable to think that the edits on that Duran Duran remix were all done on tape. No computer editing, snap to functions, magnifying tools, timestretching, just good ears and patience... excellent.

For this mix check out Duran Duran: The Singles 1986-1995

Channel One - Technicolor

2007-07-20T15:12:00.000-07:00

Channel One - Technicolor
Label: Metroplex
Catalog#: M-003
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Electro
Credits: Engineer - John Yosh , Juan Atkins
from: m31570

check out Street Jams: Electric Funk, Vol. 4

Throbbing Gristle - Discipline

2007-07-20T14:24:00.000-07:00

Throbbing Gristle - Discipline
Label: Fetish Records
Catalog#: FET 006
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Industrial
from: Пирожок

check out Throbbing Gristle - Greatest Hits

Ballet Mécanique

2007-07-20T13:21:00.001-07:00

Ballet Mécanique (1924) was a project by the American composer George Antheil and the filmmaker/artist Fernand Léger. Antheil wrote several versions of the piece. The very first, written in 1924 calls for 16 player pianos playing four separate parts, for four bass drums, three xylophones, a tam-tam, seven electric bells, a siren, and three different-sized airplane propellers (high wood, low wood, and metal), as well as two human-played pianos.

It required the syncing of sound to film, syncing of all 16 player pianos and later performances had no humans on stage at all. In their place bits of machinery and automated music box's. Sounds like a very early piece of electronic piece of music to me.

Needless to say Antheil's music did not go down well with the masses. His 1923 performance of L'inhumaine caused the audience to riot. You can watch a short clip of the riot HERE. Appearently the whole Paris art scene attended the performance/riot and you can see on this clip Ezra Pound, Fernand Léger, Erik Satie, Darius Milhaud, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia, The Prince of Monaco, James Joyce, and Sylvia Beach.

Ballet Méchanique is Antweil's most famous, controversial and long standing composition. In 2004 it was shown as part of a Warp tour featuring Squarepusher, Aphex Twin and Jammie Liddell. REVIEWS

The piece was performed again in May 2006 but this time they tried to get the fairly complex sequencing right. 16 MIDI-compatible grand player pianos, provided by the Gulbransen division of QRS Music, three xylophones, four bass drums, a tam-tam, a siren, and three "airplane propellers," all controlled by MIDI, using robotics built by the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, under the direction of Eric Singer performed the piece at the Washington National Gallery of Art. Check out a clip HERE.

You can listen to interviews with and tributes to George Antheil HERE.

check out Ballet Mecanique and other Works for Player Pianos, Percussion, and Electronics

Yello - Bostich

2007-07-20T05:27:00.000-07:00

Yello - Bostich
Label: Stiff America
Catalog#: TEES 12-10
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
from: dante314159

check out Yello: Solid Pleasure

Devo - R U Experienced?

2007-07-20T05:23:00.000-07:00

Devo - R U Experienced?
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Producer - Devo
from gadgetman2000

check out Devo: ShoutPublish Postmazon.com/e/ir?t=electkingd-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00094ASTK" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />

SAMUEL HOFFMAN Theremin (1953)

2007-07-20T05:07:00.000-07:00

SAMUEL HOFFMAN Theremin
Label: Capitol Records
Catalog#: H-221
Format: Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1950 (1953)
Genre: Electronic, Jazz, Pop
Style: Space-Age, Romantic, Experimental, Easy Listening
from weirdvideos1

The above is obviously out of print but you can get a 1999 3 CD Boxset called Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman and the Theremin

Kraftwerk - Heimcomputer Live

2007-07-20T04:59:00.000-07:00

Kraftwerk - Heimcomputer Live
label: Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#: HS 3549
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop, Experimental
From: technik

check out Kraftwerk: Computer World

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

2007-07-20T04:54:00.000-07:00

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Label: Mute Records Ltd.
Catalog#: 7 BONG 3
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: Europe
Released: 11 Jul 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Credits: Engineer - Gareth Jones
Producer - Daniel Miller , Depeche Mode
From: warnerbrosrecords

check out Depeche Mode: Construction Time Again

Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen

2007-07-19T20:49:00.000-07:00

Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen
Label: Chrysalis
Catalog#: CHS 2860
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
From: akatchu

check out Paul Hardcastle: Cover to Cover: A Musical Autobiography

Vangelis & Neuronium -- In London

2007-07-19T18:50:00.000-07:00

Vangelis & Neuronium ( In London 1982 )
Label: Chacra Alternative Music
Catalog#: CHACD 036
Format: CD, Single
Country: Canada
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Free Improvisation, Ambient
from: Patrickillian

This single is one track from a series of improvisations created when Neuronium visited Vangelis at Nemo Studios in 1981. The meeting was recorded by a Spanish television crew and footage was broadcast in Spain on the show "Music Express." This track is the only one of those improvisations that has had an official release in studio quality.

check out Vangelis & Neuronium: In London

Donna Summer - I Feel Love

2007-07-19T18:40:00.000-07:00

Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Label: GTO
Catalog#: GT 100
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
Credits: Producer - Giorgio Moroder , Pete Bellotte
from: Douglaseamigos

check out Donna Summer: Gold

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity

2007-07-19T18:10:00.000-07:00

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
Label: Oasis
Catalog#: OASIS 1
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: Germany
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Disco
Credits: Producer - Giorgio Moroder
Written By - Giorgio Moroder , Pete Bellotte
From: djbetoloko

check out Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity

The Human League - Being Boiled

2007-07-19T18:01:00.000-07:00

The Human League - Being Boiled
Label: Fast Product
Catalog#: FAST 4
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single
Country: UK
Released: Jun 1978
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
Credits: Producer, Written-By - Human League, The
Notes: First edition released in mono with black and white labels. Later pressings came with red and yellow labels and added stereo effects.
From: chetano

check out The Human League: Travelogue

Massive Attack - Karmacoma

2007-07-19T15:36:00.000-07:00

Massive Attack - Karmacoma
Label: Wild Bunch Records
Catalog#: WBRT 7
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 01 Jan 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trip Hop, Downtempo
Credits: Engineer [Mix] - Mark "Spike" Stent*
From: raymondlarios

check out Massive Attack - Collected or for those that like the Dub No Protection: Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor with the seriously dubbed version of Karmacoma

Aphex Twin - On

2007-07-19T15:05:00.000-07:00

Aphex Twin - On
Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WAP 39
Format: Vinyl, 45 RPM, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 15 Nov 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Industrial
From: anti0918

check on Aphex Twin - On

Chicago - Birth of House Music

2007-07-19T14:28:00.000-07:00

Chicago - Birth of House Music
tb303 & acid house
From: tuneseeker

check out Trax Records: Acid Classics

Roni Size/Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag

2007-07-19T13:57:00.000-07:00

Roni Size/Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag
Label: Talkin' Loud
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass
From: krebain

check out Roni Size - New Forms

DJ SS - Black

2007-07-19T13:41:00.000-07:00

DJ SS - Black
Label: Formation Colours Series
Catalog#: BLACK 001
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Drum n Bass, Jungle
Notes: Written, Mixed & Produced by Leroy Small.
Black samples vocals from the song 'I Will Always Love You'
by Whitney Houston.
From: dopebob

DJ Rolando - Jaguar

2007-07-19T13:29:00.000-07:00

DJ Rolando - Jaguar
Label: 430 West
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
Credits: Written-By - Gerald Mitchell , Mike Banks , Rolando Rocha
from: frenetick

Check out DJ Rolando - Vibrations

Shannon "Let the Music Play"

2007-07-19T13:07:00.000-07:00

Shannon "Let the Music Play"
Label: Emergency Records
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Freestyle, Electro

Check out Let the Music Play: The Best of Shannon

S'Express - Theme from S'Express

2007-07-19T13:01:00.000-07:00

S'Express - Theme from S'Express
Label: Rhythm King Records
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: House
Credits: Arranged By [Strings And Orchestration] - Mark Moore

Check out Themes from S'Express: The Best of S'Express

KLF-What time is LOVE? (UK)

2007-07-19T12:57:00.000-07:00

KLF-What time is LOVE? (UK)
Label: KLF Communications
Catalog#: KLF 004 T
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 17 Oct 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trance, Techno
From: tkfc1

Check out KLF - White Room / Justified & Ancient

Pink Floyd 1974 Screen Film - On The Run/Time

2007-07-19T12:11:00.000-07:00

Pink Floyd - On The Run/Time
Label: Harvest
Catalog#: SHVL 804
Format: Vinyl, LP, Gatefold Sleeve
Country: UK
Released: 1973
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
From: heartbeatpig

This is part of the video that was played on the giant screens Pink Floyd toured with. On the run uses the classic british VCS3 synth and time with all it clocks reminds me a lot of Varese.

Check out Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniversary Edition

Edgard Varese and Le Corbusier - Poeme Electronique (1958)

2007-07-19T11:33:00.000-07:00

Edgard Varese and Le Corbusier - Poeme Electronique (1958)
First presented at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with 425 speakers placed throughout the famous Philips pavilion, the placement of the speakers and design of the building gave the spectators a feeling of being housed within a concrete, silver seashell. A giant model of the atom hung from the ceiling and the sound & imagery premiered to standing room only crowds and I can only imagine was a complete mind-blower to all who witnessed the spectacle. Varese is considered to be the "father of electronic music", Henry Miller described him as the "stratospheric colossus of sound." When Philips (Philips electronic company) approached Le Corbusier to design a building for the fair, Le Corbusier said, "I will not make a pavilion for you (Philips) but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color, image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis."
From: dolphinbrain

Check out Varèse - The Complete Works / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra · Asko Ensemble · Chailly

Alter Ego - Rocker

2007-07-19T11:25:00.000-07:00

Alter Ego - Rocker
Label: Klang Elektronik
Format: Vinyl, 12", Single Sided, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Released: 08 Mar 2004
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
from: vaxSpain

Check out Alter Ego - Rocker

Fischerspooner - Emerge 2000

2007-07-19T11:12:00.000-07:00

Fischerspooner - Emerge 2000

Label:	Serotonin
Format:	Vinyl, 12"
Country:	US
Released:	Mar 2000
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Electro

From: rockperunet

Check out Fischerspooner - #1

Kramer & Luttazzi - Pazzi Per La Musica (1957)

2007-07-19T10:22:00.000-07:00

Kramer & Luttazzi - Pazzi Per La Musica (1957)
Title: Crazy for music
Product: Dado per brodo Liebig
Production: Slogan
Year: 1957
Authors: Guido Rosada (director, scripteriter); Gorni Kramer, Lelio Luttazzi (scripteriters, musicians); Giuseppe Tortorella (producing) Actors: Gorni Kramer, Lelio Luttazzi
Notes: Gone in wave in 1957.

Joey Beltram - Energy Flash (Live Mix)

2007-07-19T06:13:00.000-07:00

Joey Beltram - Energy Flash (Live Mix)
Label: Transmat
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
From: morcik

Check Out Joey Beltram - Classics

Pierre Henry "Psyché Rock"

2007-07-19T05:53:00.000-07:00

Pierre Henry "Psyché Rock"
Label: Philips
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 1967
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Noise, Experimental, Ambient
From: nightwatch01

Check out Pierre Henry - Messe Pour Le Temps Présent(1967)

Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth

2007-07-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth
Label: 1750 Arch Records
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1977
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Minimal
From: MusicMouse

The above credits refer to Women in Electronic Music (1977). I couldn't find any released material featuring the music from the video.

Afrika Bambaataa-Planet Rock Kraftwerk Original Video

2007-07-19T05:24:00.000-07:00

Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Label: 21 Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Canada
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
Credits: Executive Producer - Tom Silverman
Music By - Planet Patrol
Producer - Arthur Baker
From: hades4o

Check out Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock: The Album

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

2007-07-19T05:17:00.000-07:00

Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Label: CBS
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
From: hossenff

Check out Herbie Hancock - Future Shock

George Clinton - Atomic Dog

2007-07-18T20:48:00.000-07:00

George Clinton - Atomic Dog
Label: Capitol Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: P.Funk, Electro
Credits: Co-producer - Ted Currier
Notes: Written by Clinton, Shider & Spradley
Produced by George Clinton with Ted Currier.

Check out Computer Games

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet

2007-07-18T19:03:00.000-07:00

Part 1

Part 2

Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Label: Polydor (France)
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 1975
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Ambient
via pezzipez

Check out
Ricochet

Goldie - Innercity Life

2007-07-18T19:00:00.000-07:00

Goldie - Innercity Life
Label: FFRR
Catalog#: 850 363-2
Format: CD, Maxi-Single
Country: Germany
Released: 1995
Genre: Electronic
Style: Jungle
Credits: Producer - Goldie

Check out Timeless

SQUAREPUSHER FAT CONTROLLER

2007-07-18T18:44:00.000-07:00

SQUAREPUSHER FAT CONTROLLER
Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WARP MC 50
Format: Cassette
Country: UK
Released: 28 Apr 1997
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Drum n Bass, Experimental

Check out Hard Normal Daddy

Dub Down Babylon!! Sine Qua Non Sound Clash

2007-07-18T18:14:00.000-07:00

Dub Down Babylon!! Sine Qua Non Sound Clash
Tribute to all the great Engineers/Producers and musicians of classic Jamaican Dub Reggae,featuring audio and video samples from the movie Rockers plus pics and video of classic Dub albums,shots of Studio One and Channel One recording studio,Sly and Robbie,Aggrovators,Soul Syndicate,ect.Original music by Sine Qua Non Sound Clash

From: illspektor

Check out Rockers - 25th Anniversary Edition

Mr. Fingers - Ammnesia

2007-07-18T17:02:00.000-07:00

Mr. Fingers - Ammnesia
Label: Jack Trax
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: May 1988
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Deep House, Acid House
Credits: Producer, Written-By, Arranged By - Larry Heard

Classic House from Mr.Fingers
If you want more check out Trax Records: 20th Anniversary Collection

Bob James - Nautilus

2007-07-18T07:00:00.000-07:00

Bob James - Nautilus
Label: CTI Records
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1974
Genre: Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz
Credits: Arranged By, Conductor - Bob James
Engineer - Rudy Van Gelder

Not exactly electronic music but the sample at 3.30 mins is a bedrock for a lot of electronic music. You can download the break as a .wav file HERE.

or check out the album Bob James - One

Art of Noise - Close to the Edit - Rare Version

2007-07-18T05:00:00.000-07:00

Art of Noise - Close to the Edit - Rare Version. Rare animated version of Close to the Edit with clips of Art of Noise having fun in the recording studio.

Label: ZTT
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Synth-pop

Kode9 & Spaceape - 9 Samurai

2007-07-18T04:56:00.000-07:00

Kode9 & Spaceape - 9 Samurai - One of my favourite Dubstep tracks. I love when you hear it in a mix. It just stands out so much.

Label: Hyperdub
Format: Vinyl, 10"
Country: UK
Released: Apr 2006
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Downtempo, Abstract

Check out Kode9 - Memories of the Future

LFO - LFO

2007-07-18T04:44:00.000-07:00

LFO - LFO (Their first 12"... amd still a classic)
Label: Warp Records
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 26 Jul 1990
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

LFO - Freak

2007-07-18T04:42:00.000-07:00

LFO - Freak - LFO's big come back single.
Label: Warp Records
Format: CD, Maxi-Single, Promo
Country: UK
Released: 2003
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, IDM

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom

2007-07-17T17:08:00.000-07:00

November 18, 2006 (Oldschool Electro-Hip-Hop and Freestyle Mix)
I couldn't leave my first day of bloging on Electric Kingdom without playing the track that inspires its name.

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom
Label: Vanguard
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro

Enjoy! thanks to DJ Meta 4

Ryuichi Sakamoto + David Sylvian - Bamboo Music

2007-07-17T16:54:00.000-07:00

Ryuichi Sakamoto + David Sylvian - Bamboo Music
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Minimal

I know Forbidden Colours is the big collaboration between Sakamoto and Sylvian but I jst prefer this one. For some reason Bamboo seems to have stood the test of time better.

Front 242 - Operating Tracks

2007-07-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

Front 242 - Operating Tracks from their 1982 LP Geography.
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Belgium
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM

Westbam - Mayday Anthem `92

2007-07-17T16:42:00.000-07:00

Westbam from 1992 banging out the Mayday Anthem.
Label: Low Spirit Recordings , Polydor (Germany)
Country: Germany
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno

808 State - In Yer Face

2007-07-17T16:25:00.000-07:00

08 State - In Yer Face
Country: UK
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Techno
Entered Chart: 16/ feb /1991
Chart Run: 16-9-9-12-33-55
Peak: 9
Weeks: 6

808 State are an English dance outfit formed in 1988 in Radcliffe, Bury in Greater Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of acid house, they were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson (later to record as A Guy Called Gerald) and released their debut Newbuild in 1988. Autechre and Aphex Twin have often cited Newbuild as being enormously influential, and the group achieved some degree of chart success in the UK in the early 1990s with releases "Pacific State", "Cubik" and "In Yer Face".

Hello World :)

2007-07-17T16:16:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to Electric Kingdom. Basically I am going to use this blog as a guideline to the history of electronic music over the last 50 years. I am going to compile a collection of electronic music videos, interviews with electronic musicians and documentaries detailing the history of electronic music over the last 50 years... or at least as fair back as I can find them.
If you ever find anything interesting drop me an email and I'll post it up.

Electric Kingdom will be run as a companion blog to my AudioLemon blog.