Not familiar with that…. the album I played until it wore out was Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (1972)… a double album… absolutely absorbing… very much the original Kraftwerk sound.
It’s a shame that album is worth a lot of cash these days.
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Burt Alcantara - Zygoat
I saw TD on the Phaedra tour, whenever that was…. ‘74 or ‘75?
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Now that’s a Kraftwerk album I hadn’t come across. As it’s a 1972 double I wonder whether it’s an amalgam of K1 & K2?
(Got K1 streaming off yootoob at the moment 
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Yes it appears it was a UK release of the combined K1 and K2.
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I may actually have that album. I have something called “DoppelAlbum” on Philips (I think) and it has a lot of early stuff but side 4 is Autobahn.
The cover is a motorway symbol.
I had forgotten some of the aforementioned albums from the late 60s/early 70s, but one not yet mentioned was Zero time by Tonto’s expanding head band (great name for a band!).
Wendy Carlos has been mentioned, though Switched on Bach was originally released under Carlos’s birth name, Walter Carlos. Another by him/her, released oroginally under the name Walter, was the music score for Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
A composer from late 70s was Adrian Wagner (grandson of the opera composer). I had an album called The last Inca.
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Never seen that kraftwerk album before but a huge fan of Maximum minimum which sounds wonderful on vinyl.
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Lucky you. There are a couple of Record Store Day releases from that era and while the sound quality is of bootleg standard the performances are interesting
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William orbits classic reworked
Blade Runner soundtrack
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Some great names mentioned so far.
You could also try Steve Roach - he has a large catalogue with a wide range of music from totally deep space drift (the Magnificent Void) to tribal ambient (Ascension of Shadows) with sequencer and other stuff in between.
Steve recorded a lot with Vidna Obmana who also recorded a wide range including industrial noise and glass like ambience. He recorded a trilogy based on Dante’s inferno which used a lot of distortion and under the moniker Fear Falls Burning uses guitar only, including ‘the infinite sea of sustain’…
Vir Unis is another artist exploring both ambient and sequencer music - ‘Body Electric’ and ‘Blood Machine’, both recorded with Steve Roach creates rhythmic music that seems to stand still - much like the way blood moves but is contained.
There is Tonto’s Expanding Head Band - their album ‘zero time’ was released in 1971 - recorded on a huge modular synth at the time.
Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream released a number of solo albums well worth considering - Aqua being one of them.
Lustmord produces dark electronic music and soundscapes - ‘Zoetrope’ and ‘The Place Where The Black Stars Hang’ being among them.
Oophoi was into deep listening and his music was invariably drifting and dreamy. ‘The Dreaming of Shells’ and ‘The Spirals of Time’ are great examples.
Mathias Grassow is also prolific and varied. I prefer his ‘Dissolution’ album over most of his others - though ‘Thodol’ comes close - both on the dark side of the spectrum
The Hypnos label produced a lot of electronic CDs - from a wide range of artists both well known and relatively obscure, including Robert Rich…
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PS…
Delirium’s album ‘Synaesthesia’ has some great electronic music on it - I find the track Dark Core a great test track for listening to on a system…
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This is some of the best electronic music I’ve listened to in a while.
As Peel explains, “The specialist library label KPM, gave me permission to reinterpret the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic, the music of Delia Derbyshire and the Radiophonic Workshop.”
Her process of re-sampling and generating her own new digital instruments, allowed for fresh inspiration in pioneering, experimental electronics from the early 1970s is at the core of the album. Peel has made connections and new patterns that mirror the Earth’s ecological cycles through music.
Peel explains, “I’m drawn to the patterns around us and the cycles in life that will keep on evolving and transforming forever. Fir Wave is defined by its continuous environmental changes and there are so many connections to those patterns echoed in electronic music – it’s always an organic discovery of old and new.”
Also check out her album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia. Synthesizers and a colliery brass band. Ace.
P.s.
Obligatory Squarepusher…
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A low rider cruises through a neon lit, rain soaked main drag of a run down downtown area, it’s wheels thumping through pot holes in the tarmac… to the left, an agitated man gesticulates vigorously while talking on his mobile, to the right a mom and pop dinner, the first window holding a journalist vigorously flipping through his note pad trying to hang the story together, the middle window a group of youths arguing about what to do for the evening, the final window holds an old couple, recreating their many nights in the dinner… coffee, apple pie and lashes of whipped cream, reminiscing on their youth… the low rider creeps onwards, into the night.
Walter (Wendy) Carlos’ Clockwork Orange is a tour de force.
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Pictures at an Exhibition and The Planets by Tomita are excellent.
Yes can’t seem to find on streaming apart from excerpts… CD not available easily… I’ll keep an eye out.
Vangelis; Memories of Green, from the original Blade Runner… is very atmospheric
Yes, I keep on looking for downloads but can’t find any. Only S/H CDs available at very high cost.
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Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music
" OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music is a compilation of early electronic music and excerpts from 1948 to 1980.[3][4] Many works are essentially experiments with sound, using a variety of non-traditional instruments including homemade circuits, tape ribbon, and early synthesisers."
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Well if we want some of the real early pioneers of electronic instrumentation and sounds, them we have Leo Theremin who invented the Theremin in 1920… and possibly the first electronic instrument the Telharmonium invented in 1896 by Thaddeus Cahill… impressive as it was invented and built before vacuum valves were invented… it relied on electronic/mechanical hybrid setup of generators for pitches.
The mkiii version weighed 200 tons… and was used for concert recitals.
I believe technically these non synthesizer electronic instruments are called Electrophones.
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