Electric Kingdom

Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino (1989)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:37:00 +0000

Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino
Label: DFC
Catalog#: DFC 0017
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Italy
Released: 1989
Genre: Electronic
Style: House
Credits: Featuring - Carolina Damas

From: Nasipwondi

Sueno Latino is one of the most influential house tracks of all time. Essentially an updated version of Manuel Gottschings timeless E2-E4. It has been remixed by Derrick May and others. Those little bird chirps at the state and all that heavy breathing used to haunt me mind when I was younger.

Rufige Cru - Dark Rider (1992)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:19:00 +0000

Rufige Cru - Dark Rider
Label: Reinforced Records
Catalog#: RIVET 1224
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore, Jungle
Notes: Runout grooves read: "PR-M"

From: misseverything2

Classic stuff from one of my favourite labels. Reinforced and Suburban Bass were most definitely the leaders of the packs.

Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny (2005)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Aphex Twin & Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny
Label: Warp Films
Catalog#: WF003 DVD
Format: DVD
Country: UK
Released: 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental

From: TheLiquidLight

Weird films and granular synthesis... a match made in hell :)

Raymond Scott - Lightworks (Late 50s???)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:51:00 +0000

It's tough to get an accurate date on this one. Suffice to say it's from the late 50's early 60's. Raymond Scott, as some will know, is one of the very early electronic musicians. Accredited (although not by himself) with desiging and building one of the very first synthesizers he never really saw himself as an artist. He preferred to make little jingles, music for children and audio experiments. The above 'Lightworks' refers to a line of cosmetics from the late 50s/early 60s featuring eye shadow, blush and lipstick.

Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Mix) 1981

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:47:00 +0000

Jimmy Ross - First True Love Affair (Larry Levan Mix)
Label: Unidisc
Catalog#: SPEC-1368
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1981
Genre: Electronic
Style: Disco
thanks to djisfan

you can find more about Larry Levan at JahSonic.com

Syreeta / Stevie Wonder - Black Maybe (1972)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:00:00 +0000

Syreeta / Stevie Wonder - Black Maybe
Label: MoWest
Catalog#: MW 113 L
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1972
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul
From: teesnpants
Stevie Wonder producing his then wife Syreeta.

Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt (1984)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:54:00 +0000

Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt
Label: Egyptian Empire Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
From: chadraines

The sound is pretty crappy on this one.

Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop 1983

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:50:00 +0000

Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop
Label: Importe/12 Records
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Disco
Credits: Engineer - Mark Berry
Producer - Man Parrish , Raul A. Rodriguez
From: studio54forever

Killer Electro...

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:42:00 +0000

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: MS 7315
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1969
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Ambient
Credits: Producer - David Behrman

Terry Riley is one of the 60's American minimal composers. He was involved in the experimental San Francisco Tape Music Center working with Morton Subotnick, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Ramon Sender.

While his early endeavours were influenced by Stockhausen, Riley changed direction after first encountering La Monte Young, in whose Theater of Eternal Music he later performed from 1965-66. Riley has referred to Young as "the freakiest guy I have ever met in my life," stating that it was Young's ideas that were at the heart of minimalism, though more composers have come to name Riley himself as an influence. The String Quartet (1960) was Riley's first work in this new style; it was followed shortly after by a string trio, in which he first employed the repetitive short phrases that he (and minimalism) are now known for.

His music is usually based on improvising through a series of modal figures of different lengths, such as in In C and the Keyboard Studies. In C (1964) is probably Riley's best-known work and one that brought the minimalist music movement to prominence. Its first performance was given by Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Pauline Oliveros, and Morton Subotnick, among others, and it has influenced their work and that of many others, including John Adams and Philip Glass. Its form was an innovation: the piece consists of 53 separate modules of roughly one measure apiece, each containing a different musical pattern but each, as the title implies, in C. One performer beats a steady stream of Cs on the piano to keep tempo. The others, in any number and on any instrument, perform these musical modules following a few loose guidelines, with the different musical modules interlocking in various ways as time goes on. The Keyboard Studies are similarly structured – a single-performer version of the same concept.

This format, with a collection of minimal musical elements coming together to form a complex and cohesive whole, launched a movement that was a step away from the increasing academicism in western classical music. The complex formal structures of the Second Viennese School and the neoclassicists had dominated the classical musical landscape throughout the middle of the 20th century; the minimalistic movement abandoned that formalism. Riley often further denied strict structure by introducing improvisational elements into his compositions (though he had long been improvising in solo performance); one of the primary pieces to use this approach was his A Rainbow In Curved Air (1968). This work and Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band, its companion piece on a recording issued in 1969, were intended to give a necessarily truncated impression of the sound of Riley's all-night concerts.

For a time Riley stopped notating his works at all, focusing on Indian classical music and solo performance. Working with the Kronos Quartet has led him back to more structured, notatable music, but improvisatory elements remain an important part even of the works composed for them.

Being on the leading edge of music was nothing new for Riley. Already in the 1950s he was working with tape loops, a technology then in its infancy, and he has continued manipulating tapes to musical effect, both in the studio and in live performance, throughout his career. He has composed in just intonation as well as microtonal pieces.

Riley's collaborators include the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Pauline Oliveros, and, as mentioned, the Kronos Quartet.

He has also had a notable collaboration with Beat poet Michael McClure, with whom he has released several CD's and most recently contributed music to a London revival of his play The Beard.

A Rainbow In Curved Air inspired Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley", the latter apparently named in tribute to Riley as well as to Meher Baba. - wikipedia

Plastikman - Plastique

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:29:00 +0000

Plastikman - Plastique
Label: NovaMute
Catalog#: 12 NoMu 34
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: UK
Released: 17 Oct 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Tribal, Techno, Minimal, Acid

Aphex Twin - Polynomial C

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:25:00 +0000

Aphex Twin - Polynomial C
Label: R & S Records
Catalog#: RS 95035 CD
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Belgium
Released: Dec 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, IDM

Autechre - Basscadet

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:31:00 +0000

Autechre - Basscadet
Label: Warp Records
Catalog#: WARP MC 17
Format: Cassette
Country: UK
Released: 29 Nov 1993
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Electro, Ambient
Credits: Co-producer - Darrell Fitton

Autechre's Basscadet from their Incunabula album. IMO when they were at there best... but that's just me :)

Newcleus - Jam On It

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:27:00 +0000

Newcleus - Jam On It
Label: Sunnyview Records
Catalog#: SUN-411
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: US
Released: 1984
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop
Style: Electro
Credits: Mixed By - Jonathan Fearing
Producer - Frank Fair , Joe Webb
From: luker256

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:17:00 +0000

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Label: WERGO
Catalog#: WER 60009
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Germany
Released: 1960
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical
Credits: Drums - Christoph Caskel , David Tudor
Electronics - Gottfried Michael Koenig , Karlheinz Stockhausen
Piano - David Tudor
Notes: Originally created in 1959, subtitled "für elektronische Klänge, Klavier und Schlagzeug" (for electronic sound, piano and drums).
From: Archosvalens

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: ???

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:47:00 +0000

Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky: ???
Vertical Tangent a film poem by eric gamalinda; with early electronic music (1952,1953) by Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky.

I don't know what to say about this other than it's from the early 50's. I can't find the exact track as I'm not sure of the name. You could check out Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music Special Edition 3CD + DVD. This track might not be on it but both musicians are featured so...

Mtume - Juicy Fruit

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:34:00 +0000

Mtume - Juicy Fruit
Label: Epic
Catalog#: TA 3424
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic, Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Synth-pop
From: foodhill

Check out Juicy Fruit

Acen - Trip II the Moon (Part 1)

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:32:00 +0000

Label: Production House
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1992
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore
From: Monsunamii

Acen's notes on this release: "Written & produced in the late summer of 1992
on the MPC-60 - JD800 & W30. The haunting square wave melody in the intro came to me in a dream which also inspired the piano line."

check out Best Of Hardcore 4 there;s a lot of killer old school hardcore tracks on there - Hold it down, 4Hero - cook ya brain, acen -trip to the moon. Classics :)

2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:25:00 +0000

2 Bad Mice - Hold It Down
Label: Moving Shadow
Catalog#: SHADOW 14
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Hardcore
Credits: Producer - Rob Playford
From: ninokawasaki

check out Best Of Hardcore 4 there;s a lot of killer old school hardcore tracks on there - Hold it down, 4Hero - cook ya brain, acen -trip to the moon. Classics :)

4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:11:00 +0000

4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
Title: Mr Kirks Nightmare
Label: Reinforced
Year: 1991
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, House, Hardcore, Jungle
From: Monsunamii

FSOL: The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:41:00 +0000

FSOL: The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman
Label: Virgin Records (UK)
Catalog#: CDV 2755
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: 05 Dec 1994
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Experimental, Ambient
from: Odin Ibn Hvelgemer

"Infamous British duo who met in the 1980's in Manchester. Their very influential discography shows off influences spanning acid house, hardcore techno, ambient, krautrock, 60's psychedelica, and more. Previously Dougans, as Humanoid, had a UK Top 10 hit with Stakker Humanoid. Together as FSOL, they scored a major crossover success with Papua New Guinea. Their first full-length Accelerator charted their dancefloor-friendly early career, after which FSOL moved into deeper, more album-oriented word. Lifeforms was a double-disc set spanning long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience, followed Dead Cities which added hip-hop, trip-hop, industrial textures, and bleak urban imagery into their mix of influences. Their ISDN album compiled music from their ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts from the mid-1990's. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they dropped off the radar. After a long hiatus in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction, the Papua New Guinea Translations concept remix album came out, followed by the full-length The Isness (Official Version) and more material under the Amorphous Androgynous name." - Discogs

check out FSOL: ISDN

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:31:00 +0000

The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Label: London Records
Catalog#: LONXR 103
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 1986
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop, Hi-NRG
From: DubboyVloox

Jimmy Summerville with the Hi-NRG classic Don't Leave Me This Way. Check out the Platinum Collection.

Goldfrapp: Ooh La La

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:59:00 +0000

Goldfrapp: Ooh La La
Label: Mute Records Ltd.
Format: CD, Maxi-Single, Promo
Country: UK
Released: Jul 2005
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro, Synth-pop
Mixed By - Mark "Spike" Stent
From: svenge

I thought this sounded very similiar to the Timelords (KLF) - Doctorin' The Tardis. It uses a glitter beat and has a similiar sound. Not too surprising considering Mark "Spike" Stent mixed both of them. The Brits do seem to like mixing Glitter beats with synth-pop.

check out Goldfrapp: Supernature

Cars - Gary Numan

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:54:00 +0000

Cars - Gary Numan
Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BEG 23
Format: Vinyl, 7"
Country: UK
Released: 24 Aug 1979
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
From: TheMidnightEddros1

check out Numans' 1979 LP The Pleasure Principle

Tour de France: François Kevorkian

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:32:00 +0000

Tour de France: François Kevorkian
Label: EMI Music (Netherlands)
Catalog#: 1A K062-20 0338 6
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: Netherlands
Released: 1983
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electro
From: tuneseeker

I always prefered this version of Tour de France over the original. François Kevorkian is one of the originals from the disco era. He started DJing in the late 70's and through the influence of the Latin Rascals and others started producing tape edits of popular tracks. The above track is one of his better known tape edits/remix.

"From early DJ gigs in the disco wonderland of late-'70s New York City to his current stint at Manhattan's Body and Soul, Kevorkian has been at dance music's epicenter — be it disco, new wave or house — since its inception. As a producer, mixer and remixer, he's worked with Larry Levan, Arthur Baker, The Smiths, The Cure, Cabaret Voltaire, U2, Eurythmics, Ashford and Simpson, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and Yazoo and others. Disco devotees will remember his Gold-certified mix of Musique's “Push Push in the Bush” issued on Prelude Records, the influential disco label he helped run as head of A&R from 1978 to 1982. In 1987, he opened the recording facility Axis Studios, which has attracted leading artists such as Madonna, Todd Terry, Mariah Carey and Mary J. Blige." - Jahsonic

check out Remixes, Vol. 5: Francois Kevorkian. The Kraftwerk remix isn't on that you'll have to get the 12" and Amazon don't do 12's :) - maybe have a look at HTFR.

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon

noreply@blogger.com (AudioLemon) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:57:00 +0000

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog#: KC 32731
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Jazz-Funk
From: Chameleon41

Herbie Hancock at the very start of his Jazz-Funk Period. Headhunters, the album Chameleon is from, is reportedly the greatest selling Jazz album of all time. The most unusual thing about Headhunters for me is that it was recorded about 5 months after Sextant. While Sextant is a very dark, moody, spaced out abstract album Headhunters is much more straight ahead funk. I think most Jazz fans at the time felt Herbie was selling out to commercial success. Personally I think somebody with that much funk in them "just gots to be funky" :) All throughout Headhunter you can hear Herbie playing on the Arp Soloist, Arp Odyssey, Fender Rhodes and Hohner Clavinet... so all in all jazz had become almost completey plugged in.

check out Hebie Hancock: Headhunters