falling grains of sand.

really lovely album from 03 by takagi masakatsu, reminds me of savath & savalas, & at points the books as well. yeah, if yr into scott herren at all, then this will be in yr wheelhaus.

view from my window.

figured while i'm cleaning out my apartment, why not also clean out my itunes as well. also, this is a nice follow up to the last album i posted. more early synth explorations which weaves in elements of jazz, classical & blues to very nice effect. kinda oram/derbyshire~esque, could see this influencing some bbc cats.

two notes glowing.

a founding father, this piece of schmaltzy moog lounge funk came out in 69. a fun & totally enjoyable listen.

From Merrie Melodies to Basslines Generators

Sorry for the delay, chaps, this week's been a busy one. As a compensation, I'll share the fantastic collection of bleeps and bloops by the maestro Raymond Scott. He was to radio what -- ryan's and our beloved -- Suzanne Ciani was to television, composing many tracks using only LFOASDR in all its glory, promoting analog synthesizers while contributing to its development as well.  

His Jazz work is excellent too. Perhaps I'll post it here eventually.

Oh, one of his sons recently finished a documentary on his life, which I'm eager to watch. Buy the DVD, kids.

One more thing, the title song is arguably one of the most lovely tunes created on a sequencer.


part one
part two
pw: spooked (added in the zip file too)

the sound of young america.

*Much needed reissue of this early computer music classic, recorded between 1977 and 1980 and one of the first albums to feature music produced almost entirely with digital synthesizers. Remastered from the original tapes and cut to vinyl at D&M Berlin - made in an edition of 700 copies only, initial copies come on strictly limited white vinyl* Digitalis dig deep to unearth and reissue one of the first albums to be produced almost exclusively on digital synthesizers. The work of Canadian composer and video artist, Jean Piché, his densely layered and harmonically rich 'Heliograms' was pieced together between 1977-1980, inspired by the music of Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Lou Harrison and enabled by new computer and digital synthesis techniques developed at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, BC, and Stanford University, California. It was released in 1982 by a small Canadian record label which specialised in classical music, but as history would have it, the label went bankrupt pretty much as soon as it came out and the treasure was obscured from the view of all but the most ardent electronic music fiends. Now rescued from the annals, we're presented with three solemn, star-gazing wonders which really need to be heard by a wider audience. The first piece and highlight, 'Ange' constitutes sounds created on the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer, aka the Samson Box, during a residency at Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) facilities. This prototypical system was designed to synthesize complex musical events in real time using FM synthesis, and once melded with the voices of Piché and Joanna Anonychuk back at the analog studio of SFU, its oceanic waves of microtonal frequency drift recall Popol Vuh's ultra-lucid and celestial elevations. It's joined by the more tentative, tingling microtonal piece 'Lamerlaube' on the A-side, while the two-part B-side returns to the Interactive Compositional System developed by Barry Truax at SFU. By contrast, it presents much more rhythmically and instrumentally diverse facets of his work, incorporating ecstatic organ bluster and moments of darkly blissful, Badalamenti-esque melancholy. It's a truly striking, historically important release, reminding us of everything from Suzanne Ciani to Vangelis, Leyland Kirby, Popl Vuh and beyond - now subtly enhanced by James Plotkin's remaster and a faithful vinyl cut at Berlin's D&M. - boomkat


cuz imma helluva guy. just got reissued not too long ago, a fucking beautiful engaging behemoth of a record. if yr into library, kosmische, electronic bleepbloopery or just plain ole fashioned mindfucks of music, then this is up yr alley u guise. i have listened to this album at least twenty or thirty times now, & it just gets better & better with each listen. the nuances are subtle, but hit you like a train once you discover them. i can't hype this record enough. this & that robert turman tape are all i've been listening to.

the sound of jazz to come.

library music has become a strong obsession of mine over the last few months now, and this is a fucking classique of the genre. anyone wanna hook a brother up with those sweet grm reish's comin out? i already have the parmegiani record. flash, ghostcap & owl, i'm lookin yr way my dudes.

yr my miss washington dc.

The original MGM soundtrack to this 1956 science-fiction classic is every bit as classic as the film itself! Louis and Bebe Barron created nearly every sound on the 23 selections electronically-which was unheard of during a time when most movie scores were entirely orchestral. In fact, this was so groundbreaking that they made their own synthesizers! Enjoy it now for each artificially generated plink, click, pop, whistle and roar.- amazon.com

fuck this is amazing. seriously some next level shit. i've been coming to realize that my contemporaries (& i suppose myself included in this) are mining the dead corpse of something that people perfected thirty to fifty years ago. download this & have yr mind blown.

the hickey underworld.

bruce haack is a fucking hoss.