17 May 2015

THE GREATEST ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S

THE GREATEST ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S
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Words: Joseph Morpurgo

The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors?
Casual accounts of the history of electronic music tend to point back to familiar sources: Suicide’s babble’n’hum; Cluster, Klaus Schulze and the rest of the Krautrock squad; the stygian mulch-music of early Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle; and of course Kraftwerk’s meticulous robot pop. Further back? Well, that’s when things tend to get a little foggy
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