[sdiy] Essential listening?

[David Cornutt]

On Friday, January 2, 2004, at 09:20  AM, <synth at charlielamm.com> wrote:

>
> Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach"
> Jean Michelle Jarre "Oxygene"
>

Off the top of my head: You'd have to include something from
Synergy and Tangerine Dream as the other pioneers from that era.
For Synergy, I'd go with "Cords" and "Games" as I've always
thought of those two as complementary items.  My first pick
from the extensive TanDream library would be "Stratosfear",
although you'd see a somewhat different side of the band
by going with "Ricochet" or "Cyclone".

A few other thoughts from the wayback machine (unfortunately,
I've never been able to get my hands on a copy of any of these):

* Joe Byrd's "United States of America" (circa 1969)
* Peter Baumann's "Romance '77" (the album that got electronic
dance music off the ground)
* Any performance of Varese's "Poem Electronique"

A few other totally random suggestions:

* '80s prog with lots more synth than people realize:
    Saga, "Worlds Apart"
* '80s synth-pop: Soft Cell, "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret"
* More '80s synth-pop: some Gary Numan, not sure which one
* Early-'90s sampler thrashing: Future Sound of London, "ISDN"
* Deep, deep ambient: Aphex Twin, "Selected Ambient
Works, Vol. II"
* Contemporary techno/trance mix: George Acosta, "Next Level"
* Experimental: Robert Fripp, "1999"
* More experimental: Autechre, "Basscad, EP"
* Still more experimental: Squarepusher, "Feed Me Weird Things"
* Indescribable: Alquimia, "A Separate Reality"