Ned Lagin ‎"Seastones"

CD, Rykodisc, 1990

Despite his lack of fame, Ned Lagin fits the classical definition 

of a renaissance man - artist, photographer, composer, early computer 

visionary, scientist, accomplished musician... perhaps best known as a 

sound engineer and keyboardist for the Gratefull Dead during their early 

70's heyday, Lagin is a pioneer of the use of micro and personal computers 

in live studio and stage performance settings. This release processed the 

source sounds of the GD along with fellow hippie legends David Crosby 

and Grace Slick, amongst others, into a completely different sound world 

only accessible by the technology Lagin was exploring and utilizing, 

resulting in the most unlikely cast of musicians of a release featured 

on the blog, ever, yet perfectly at home here. Wild. I encourage you

to read Lagin's wiki profile linked below, it's interesting stuff!

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Roland Kovac ‎"Computer"

LP, Selected Sound, 1980

A favorite "library music" release of mine covering all 
sorts of strange solo synth territory that would foreshadow,
amongst other things (a good deal of this release sounds 
like Emeralds), the dystopian detachment of IDM.

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Daniel Kientzy "Musiques Contemporaines Pour Saxophones"

CD, Adda, 1988

Sax and effects interpretations of compositions
by Stockhausen, Berio, Scelci and others.

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VA ‎ "Electronic Music"

LP, Turnabout, 1966

Excellent mid 60's LP collection of truly out electronic 
pieces by Andres Lewin-Richter, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Tzvi 
Avni, and Walter Carlos. Thanks to the Anti-Gravity Bunny
blog whose old version I snagged this release from in 2009.

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White Leather "Recycled"

CS, RRRecords, 2008

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Hans Koch & Gaudenz Badrutt "Humble"

File, [ds&e], 2012

27 minute audience bootleg "release" of Koch and Badrutt 
deftly maneuvering through engaging, minimal  EAI terrain 
via saxophone and laptop. This set was recorded live in Dec
2012 at the Micro Festival in Paris.

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Kenneth Gaburo ‎"Lingua II: Maledetto"

LP, CRI, 1974

Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) was an American composer best known
as a champion of compositional linguistics. His works focused primarily
on the voice and the musical qualities found in language. He established 
a publishing company called Lingua Press that centered on language and 
music in which he, amongst other things, experimented with electronic
music as a means to produce a more specific universal language. With
"Lingua II: Maledetto", his use of layered, non-processed voice sought
to do just that - having released treated vocal experiments previously,
this work rethinks and presents the voice in terms of its physiological 
impact, acoustical qualities, and structural linguistical (words as sound) 
meaning, the results being somewhat akin to non-treated Tape Music.

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Vladimir Ussachevsky & Otto Luening ‎"Tape Music: An Historic Concert"

LP, Desto, 1968

1968 LP release of a 1952 Tape Music performance 

(perhaps the first of its kind in the US?) at the Museum 

Of Modern Art in New York. It was at this time that 

John Cage was assembling what would become the 

most famous Tape Music piece, Williams Mix, which  

would make its first public performance in March of 1953.

Side b features modern classical compositions by Luening.

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Rune Lindblad ‎"Predestination"

LP, Proprius, 1975

Lindblad was a Swedish visual artist and an avant garde composer 

whose involvement with the first public performance of musique concrete 

in Sweden in 1957 lead to demands for refunds by the audience, and the 

infamous review of the concert being "pure torture" by critics. This LP 

was oddly released by a mostly religious oriented label, which might 

explain the title and confusing cover art ("modern" music was a bit of a 

trend by this point, so it's little wonder even the church set were attempting 

to make some money from it... one can only wonder what the regular 

audience of this labels releases thought when they first heard it, though...). 

This release is comprised solely of minimal synthesizer workouts ranging

between stripped back Kosmisch squelch fests and icy drone pieces, most

of which would sound perfectly at home on a diy nu new age cassette 

release of the past 10 years, or so. Thanks to the mighty and sorely missed  

Mutant Sounds blog where this was found several years ago.

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Jon Mueller & Gino Robair ‎"Dot Feed / Norwich Fragments"

3'', Compost And Height, 2008

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Various Artists "Live Session Fall 2011"

CDr, M.U.G., 2011

Detroit area jammers.

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Martin Tétreault ‎"La Nuit Où J'Ai Dit Non"

CD, Audioview, 1997

Sound assemblage at times bordering on musique concrete.

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Jean-Luc Guionnet & D'Incise ‎"At Cave12"

File, Insub, 2014

Live EAI. Get it.

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Maja Ratkje "Teip"

3'', Ambolthue, 2007

From label:
"This is the content of Maja's analogue dictaphone 
that's been with her on concerts, around the world 
and with her in the studio for the last years." 

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AMM & Merzbow "Split Series #4"

LP, Fat Cat, 1999

This record was how I discovered AMM, 15 years ago.

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Jukka Kervinen + August Traeger "Tracing Constructs"

File, Digital Minumum, 2014

GRM/Mego sounding midi bending.

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John Cage & Lejarlen Hiller "HPSCHD"

File, Issue Project Room, 2014

"HPSCHD, John Cage and Lejaren HIller’s legendary Gesamtkunstwerk is a mass media orgy, considered by many as the wildest, largest, and loudest musical composition of the 20th century. In this conversation, David Weinstein hosts three participants in the 2013 restaging in New York: composer/curator Nick Hallett, filmmaker Bradley Eros, and Cage collaborator/composer Joel Chadabe, along with Cage specialist/composer Ron Kuivila. The program is interspersed with excerpts from a production of HPSCHD at the Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, June 11, 2008."

Read more about HPSCHD >here<.

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Philip Samartzis ‎"Mort Aux Vaches"

CD, Mort Aux Vaches, 2003

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Speacil Speacker ‎"Rap Of Ibogaine & Suet"

CS, American Tapes, 2011

Olson in minimal machines mode.

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Graham Stephenson & Dave Barnes "Untitled CDr"

CDr, Not On Label, 2007

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Odd Clouds ‎"The Cavernous End"

LP, Ypsalanti, 2006

This is a fun, weird, genuine freak folk record
which is amongst their best work, imho.

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Odd Clouds ‎"Cleft Foot Of The Woods"

CDr, Tasty Soil, 2007

Tracks assembled from practices and gigs. Very Tasty.
Recently, the easily-the-best blog in the sub-underground 
(& the world) posted a few hard rare Odd Cloud releases.

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Slither "Invertebrate"

Single Sided LP, Qbico, 2008

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James Dashow ‎"Computer Music - Musica Elettronica"

LP, Edipan, 1982

Early 80's computer music.

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Thurston Moore & Frank Rosaly "Live At Neon Marshmellow Fest 2012"

File, Not On Label, 2012

Two guys that never seem to run out of interesting ideas.

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Psalm Alarm ‎"Like Machine, Like Voice"

CDr, Editions Brokenresearch, 2009

Lilting scree, fuzz hum, occasional whaps.

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Chris Riggs "Achievement Is Its Own Reward"

CDr, Editions Brokenresearch, 2009

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Menstruation Sisters ‎"Dead At Slug's"

LP, Menlo Park Recordings, 1999

Burnt burner rock band format noise rock.

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