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'OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music : 1948-1980' is a pretty good compilation.

This is from 1959.....!

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SHJ6CcML80[/media]

Lothar and the Hand People - "Paul, in Love"

At 1982, this is later than a lot of this stuff by far. But tell me this wasn't ahead of its time by a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqnPYwoiF4

MrMessiah wrote:At 1982, this is later than a lot of this stuff by far. But tell me this wasn't ahead of its time by a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqnPYwoiF4

Ah of course I know this. Don't get thrown off by the inclusion of disco in the title everyone. It is straight up Indian electronica.

whoah that thing is going off man

Here's one from one of the great-grandaddies: Artikulation, by György Ligeti.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71hNl_skTZQ

Alright, someone FINALLY posted some Raymond Scott.

Not sure that it qualifies as "Electronica" but all of Manhattan Research Inc. is worth a heavy listen:

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SW6qVLSVzw[/media]

Not often can it be said without any exaggeration that someone was ahead of their time but this guy most certainly was. Puts some early computer music to shame, certain bits. While the fathers of much the technology predated his work, I like to think of him as the father of electronic music with the sense of the word "music" emphasized. Many, many of the conventions within electronic music we know today have roots in his work.

MrMessiah wrote:At 1982, this is later than a lot of this stuff by far. But tell me this wasn't ahead of its time by a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUqnPYwoiF4

That's ridiculous, when was the first 'official' house track? That must predate it by a good few years at least.

Rodheh wrote:Alright, someone FINALLY posted some Raymond Scott.

Not sure that it qualifies as "Electronica" but all of Manhattan Research Inc. is worth a heavy listen:

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SW6qVLSVzw[/media]

Not often can it be said without any exaggeration that someone was ahead of their time but this guy most certainly was. Puts some early computer music to shame, certain bits. While the fathers of much the technology predated his work, I like to think of him as the father of electronic music with the sense of the word "music" emphasized. Many, many of the conventions within electronic music we know today have roots in his work.

The thing that's incredible is that it's not just the sounds, he's got the basic template of modern electronic music there, hasn't he? A repeating rhythm/baseline with a melody or melodic flourishes on top. There's even spoken 'samples' in there.

JCN - Essentially what I'm referring to with my comment on giving "music" emphasis within "father of electronic music", there.

The first track is a prophetic palette of sounds as far as I'm concerned.

Ah, I just noticed the bit of your post after the video! I more or less repeated what you'd just said, ha ha. Great minds think alike.