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.
Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny Label: Warp Films Catalog#: WF003 DVD Format: DVD Country: UK Released: 2005 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental
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) 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
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
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
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
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 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: ??? 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...
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 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 :)
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
Roni Size/Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag Label: Talkin' Loud Format: Vinyl, 12" Country: UK Released: 1997 Genre: Electronic Style: Drum n Bass From: krebain
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
Shannon "Let the Music Play" Label: Emergency Records Format: Vinyl, 12", Single Country: US Released: 1983 Genre: Electronic Style: Freestyle, Electro
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
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.
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
album. IMO when they were at there best... but that's just me :)
. This track might not be on it but both musicians are featured so...
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 :)
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. 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 
or go to the root and have a look at 
or for those that like the Dub 
with the seriously dubbed version of Karmacoma
