Hi Sup Forumstants, as an aficionado of early electronic music, I propose a general thread on the subject. This can cover tape music, musique concrete like Pierre Henry, elektronische like Stockhausen, early experimental synthesizer music like Subotnick, Nik Raicevic, and Eliane Radigue. Soundtracks like the Andromeda Strain are welcome too. Please avoid Moog novelty records, and everybody knows about Delia Derbyshire already.
I'll start us off with one of my favorites by Bernard Parmegiani. This is musique concrete, and includes elements of both recorded and synthesized sound.
Have you heard the new Renaldo and the Loaf? They put a new CD out after a 30 year(!) hiatus. youtube.com/watch?v=71Cxh7wmRf8 They weren't really chronologically early electronic but they were all about tape bullshit and using home studio fuckery to make their acoustic instruments sound like synths back in the day. youtube.com/watch?v=aCqxCzs3Mew The new album was all done in FL studio as far as I'm aware, but I feel like it's gone under the radar and it still involves a fair bit of audio manipulation. klanggalerie.bandcamp.com/album/gurdy-hurding
The point is to get beyond the idea of early electronic music that exists in the public consciousness. There's a lot of interesting early stuff out there that is not the stuff you find in thrift store bargain bins.
Austin Watson
You guys hear the Jaap Vink album that Recollections GRM put out recently? It's really fantastic stuff.
I just listened to it for the first time, the last section with "harmonic" versions of all the earlier ambient sounds is amazing
Jackson Reyes
you guys follow the Creel Pone bootleg stuff at all? I found some of my favorite stuff through there, everyone should check out the Oskar Sala one if they haven't already it's really good.