Here are some freaky early electronics records that might leave you scratching your head! This is a great era for synthesizer music and works on tapes...you know, if you can handle that kind of thing...can you??? I tried to grab stuff that wasn't necessarily the most known, like "silver apples on the moon" or something like that.
Lucky for me, i had the pleasure of working in probably the worlds second best record store for experimental music for a year or two- so I really focused on beefing up my synth, lounge, psych and jazz collections...mostly focusing on the synth crates, of course.
Back in the early days of electronic music, tape compositions were considered 'electronic' -which is kinda funny to me, i guess. Tape collages+synths sound pretty cool together to me, I would say.
Anyway, check out these and perhaps you learned of something new today!
Andrew Rudin
"Tragoedia"
1968
https://archive.org/details/agp157 -happened to come across this link at archive.org
Heres a very wild record you can sometimes find in the dollar bin- and I would recommend picking it up every time you can spot one.
I don't know anything about this person, but after peeping his discogs entry...he didn't put out another album for 52 years and has only released two since then??? hmm
Emerson Meyers
"Provacative Electronics"
1970
Great really weird record from the electronic music laboratory of the Catholic University of America-one has to wonder what went on it that studio-and what ever became of it...maybe they produce dubstep there now? It's got tape samples of opera singers, weird noise and drones-the whole nine yards really.
Beaver and Krause
"A Wild Sanctuary"
1970
Beaver and Krause did the nonesuch guide to electronic music-maybe i should have grabbed that one -but it's in a bulky box, i don't think it would have fit the aesthetic. This particular piece has elements of jazz, melody, tape collage and noise. These guys were Robert Moog's s West Coast sales representatives, apparently. Bernie Krause became "soundscape ecologist" in his later years-he did all these field recording albums apparently... a lot on the nature company-gonna have to dig through my cd's to see if any are his-that would be pretty funny.
Electronic Music
Ilhan Mimaroglu
1966
Ending with a wild tape piece from this Turkish composer.
I hope you enjoyed these records🤓😎