Wednesday, April 8, 2009

V/A - Electronic 2000 (Philips, 1971)



Philips threw this together as a highlights reel of their subsidiary Prospective 21e Siècle's forever untouchable Electronic Panorama box, a four LP look at tape music innovators from Paris, Tokyo, Utrecht, and Warsaw. In its truncated form we find François Bayle and Bernard Parmegiani as the representatives from GRM, Toshiro Mayuzumi on Radio NHK's behalf, Luctor Ponse, Milan Stibilj, and Jos Kunst for team U of U, and Krzysztof Penderecki as the sole entry from Warsaw. Personal standouts come from Kunst, Parmegiani, and Bayle, whose rock concrète is just about perfect. Mayazumi as well gives a fine showing with his cackle fest. Certainly, this is not to say the remaining pieces are clunkers. But if you're more inclined toward the high momentum wall bouncing sorts, the aforementioned four are a fine starting point. Save the other three for your cool down.

Electronic 2000

4 comments:

  1. Hello,the mentioned Electronic Panorama 4 LP Box is ready to download here:http://freealbums.blogsome.com/2006/07/24/various-artists-electronic-panorama
    But thanks for your work anyway,i already found a wealth of material here!

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  2. Thanks for pointing that out! I would have linked it myself, but then why post this album? Even better than that: the Avant Garde Project shared a flac rip of the box set.

    http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP13/index.htm
    http://www.avantgardeproject.org/AGP14/index.htm

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  3. Thanks for this! Great to back up my vinyl.

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