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Here's my top 10 "records to solder to" (no particular order)

1) Enya - "Shepard Moons". Some may find it 'too mainstream' but I do my best pondering with Enya
in the background. Roland D-50 mania.

2) Robert Rich - "Numena". My all-time favorite EM recording is cut #1 'The Other Side of
Twilight'. Based on Bach's 'Art of the Fugue', but in JI (just intonation), using only a P5, a
Wavestation and an ASR-10. People who claim CEM chips "just sound bad" have never heard this cut,
I promise.

3) Peter Gabriel - "Passion". Established a genre for "ambient world music" that has often been
imitated, never even coming close to topping this. P5, Fairlight.

4) Larry (Synergy) Fast - " Electronic Realizations". Blame the track 'Relay Breakdown' for MOTM.
After I heard this LP, I switched majors from physical chemistry to EE. Honest truth (and I
promply made an F in my first EE class).

5) Rick Wakeman - "Six Wives of Henry 8th". Best Mellotron recording. Period, end of discussion.
What makes the CD disgusting is that it was recorded in 1 take, when he was 19 years old. I'm
gonna barf!

6) J.M. Jarre - "Oxygene". Established the "Europop EM" genre.

7) Philip Glass - "Koyaanisqatsi". The most 'polar' record I can think of. You either think it's
brilliant (me) or a personal living hell (guessing Stooge Larry's opinion).

8) Robert Rich - "Bestiary". Hey, it's 95% MOTM. It's NOT 'music' in the normal sense, but I just
like to try and play "guess the module/patch".

9) Budd/Eno - "The Pearl". Prepared piano flanged to oblivion. But I ∗like∗ that. I like Daniel
Lanois' production technique, so I'm biased. Usually what I play after Enya.

10) E. Power Biggs - "The Four Great Toccatas and Fugues". Hey, Biggs was an EE! The pipe organ
was the first synth :) And you listen to this CD and wonder, just how much talent is possible for
God to give to a single person (speaking of Bach).