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.

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon

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

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

Iannis XENAKIS: Le Polytope de Cluny

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

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity

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

Pink Floyd 1974 Screen Film - On The Run/Time

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

Bob James - Nautilus

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