Electronic Music

This new album, based on a true story, is undoubtedly his most ambitious and adventurous album. Obsessed with his need to fuse classical compositions with a blend of traditional Celtic pop, either by subtle of ethnically derived melodies and rhythms.

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This sampler represents electronic music history. The "Computerakustische Klangsinfonie ERDENKLANG" from Hubert Bognermayr and Harald Zuschrader started the wonderful evolution of music history in the 20th century.
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The heir of time is an instrumental album consisting of twelve piano pieces played –as in the former albums – by the composer himself and his string quartet.
There is always that little touch of accordion, which stands out with a wink against the more classical aspect of his composition.

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In the beginning was the groove. Jens Fischer´s "Mad Material" is a ticket for a trip into fascinatingly singular sensory worlds which anybody can take, provided he is keen and curious enough to leave the single-tracked and rigid elements of tried and trusted music routes. more...

Native Indian chants, flutes, rattles, drums and nature sounds melt magically with electronic sounds - the effect: modern western listeners can participate in the perception of the extending consciousness of a shaman. more...

A blend of different kinds of synthesizers from analog modulars to digital instruments, LIGHTWAVE occupies a special place in the field of electronic music; by the very nature of sounds and the variety of atmospheres, by the special role given to sound processing and by the technique used in playing the music and using joint composition comparable to a real work of art or a sonic sculpture. more...

Jens Fischer - "Aúmakaú" - that’s music that, except for an open sense of "no expectations, makes no demands on the listener. We don’t have to direct ourselves toward the music: it comes to us whether we want to or not, if we’re listening or simply letting it be while we’re doing what we’re doing. more...

The Hungary issue provides music in the three categories: popular selection, cross-cultural selection and avantgarde selection, featuring well-known performers like László Benkö, Gabor Presser, Robert Mandel and István Márta. more...

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Oskar Sala, born in 1910 in Thuringia, studied composition under Paul Hindemith at the Berlin Academy of Music. He also became acquainted there with Dr. Friedrich Trautwein who was working on an electronic musical instrument called the Trautonium. Nineteen-year-old Oskar Sala was so fascinated by the project that he began studying with Trautwein and within a very short time gained sufficient knowledge to take over development of the prototype into a playable instrument. more...

Wie aktuell ist die „Bergpredigt“ in Zeiten weltweiter Glaubenskriege? Was sagen uns die Worte aus der Bibel noch in Zeiten internationaler Bilanzabstürze?
Eine filmfotografische Interpretation der Krefelder Filmemacherin und Musikerin Ute Mansel bietet eine ergreifende Visualisierung der 1983 veröffentlichten LP „Bergpredigt“ der österreichischen Elektronikpioniere Hubert Bognermayr und Harald Zuschrader.
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An instrumental christmas-music with the most famous typical German christmas-songs -
very simple arrangements with crystal-clear natural sounds of our earth, stored in the music computer, like glass, metal, wood, flutes, etc. Throughout the ages composers have written Christmas music or re-arranged the lovely old traditional songs. You can experience a festive, relaxed yuletide atmosphere in unsullied beauty, with crystal-clear natural sounds from metal, wooden, water, glass, string and brass instruments. more...

ICELAND is pretty different from previous albums. The female singer and the musicians are still the same on the new album but Bernard L’Hoir wanted to go further with them in the field of pop music by keeping an allusion to the sound of the sixties and seventies.

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Synthesizer music from the former Eastern-Germany. Even there you could find a small but fine electronic culture with remarkable artists and recordings . . .
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Austria´s music culture and orchestra tradition provide the impulse for the DIGITALPHILHARMONIC SOUNDIMAGES of the "Blue Danube"-project.
The interplay of the VIRTUAL PHILHARMONIANS and live soloists in the Computer Culture age makes it possible for the BLUE CHIP ORCHESTRA to effect and visualize new formal and DIGITAL-ACOUSTIC SOUND STRUCTURES in conjunction with newly-developed musical instruments more...

Synthesizer music from Estonia and Russia. New eastern sound esperiences of a special kind.
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This composer, guitarist and sound tinkerer derives his artistic energy from this socio-cultural melting pot, his "music from all 4 corners of the universe" is created in this urban jungle, and, in turn, the earthly, driving rhythms, charged with energy, warm blues or sharp solo guitar, unusual melodies, exotic charming ethno-sounds and witty arrangements are created. He lets the pulse of the city be his sole driving force in his third solo-album. more...

During the last two hundred years, church music and secular music have been enemies. We must be reminded that great composers of church music such as Mozart, Haydn, Bach and Schubert also composed dance music and music for entertainment. For them church music and secular music were not separate forms. more...

The roots of SVEN GRÜNBERG'S music can be found in Tibetan Buddhism. The creative work of the estonian composer and multi-instrumentalist combines art, meditation and healing, forming a new category: energy-music. more...

Every morning Oskar Sala, born in 1910, walks to his small studio in Charlottenburg, Berlin where he composes. Here exists the only functioning Mixturtrautonium in the whole world, securely protected by an alarm system. At the beginning of the 1930s Sala made it his task to master and develop this unique instrument.

The new CD embraces the entire life of a musician. It contains many wonderful electronic musical surprises. It begins immediately with Paul Hindemith‘s composition, "Slow Piece and Rondo", written for Sala, the first piece for Trautonium Solo composed in 1935! Sala‘s own "6 Caprices for Mixturtrautonium Solo" were specially composed for his new microelectronic Mixturtrautonium built by the Postprofessors. more...

The Cologne electronic project - NEUROMANTIC TRANCE - has existed since 1995. It dares to connect two apparently irreconcilable musical elements on its CD White Neck - Gentle Lamb. more...

Computer music often enough recorded by hightech fussy fanatics working like recluses in ivory towers filled with keyboards, synthesizers and other electronic instruments, to the exclusion of the public. The "CENTERAL EUROPE PERFORMANCE" (CEP) project takes the reverse path.
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Nights full of secrets - hallucinations or reality - voices in dreams - pulsing sounds - explosions of colours are lightning the empire of the dark - a trip through the soul of the Russian composer and musician Chekalin into the endless wide of the Russian landscapes and cultures. more...

The vision of a digital era is increasingly becoming more and more of a reality. The presentiments concerning the consequences of networking and communication possibilities are becoming a certainty. GEORGE ORWELL's spectacular novel and social-political apocalypse "1984" is becoming a reality.
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Boleros, footsteps on the concrete floor of endless concert halls, leading to the mysterious "Suite Eleya" and, following an aural trip lasting 52’42'’ minutes, dismisses the listener into the "Dali Dom".... We are talking about the first album of the BLUE CHIP ORCHESTRA, conducted by Hubert Bognermayr. more...

A sound picture, the size and power of surrealistic monumental work. For 48 minutes and 44 seconds computer musician Heinz Leonhardsberger and singer (singer? - No, a new occupation description must by all means be found for a vocal artist like him) Johann Jascha burst open all those doors on which their compatriot Sigmund Freud has cautiously tapped. more...

Certain sections of the music in "Songs No Words", which is Schmoellings 4th solo album, are meant to be a mixture of two music styles. The classical-romantic music of the 19th century and the popular electronic music of the present. more...

"New Expedition Extra" A total solo LP as arrangements and parts were programmed into the ERDENKLANG-Music-Computer-System which uses a FAIRLIGHT. Some of the solos were added in by an analoge synthesizer due to the fact that although the FAIRLIGHT has a "real time composer" system the keyboard on present models is a little too stiff to allow complete solo freedom. more...

The symphonic-rock presented by EELA CRAIG in the seventies is completely in the standard tradition of Keith Emerson and his group NICE, as well as the WHO. The Craigs can surely consider themselves to be pioneers of this symphonic rock- and space-music since they played almost exclusively in the opera and theaters. This stylistic spectrum was only made possible using electronics, and EELA CRAIG had quite a bit to offer in this field. more...

On 20th June, 1930 an "Electric Concert" was given in the Large Hall of the Berlin Music University. The main attraction was the world premiere of "Trio-Pieces" by Paul Hindemith for Friedrich Trautwein´s electric musical instrument, the Trautonium. On one of the three instruments Hindemith himself played the top part, his pupil in composition and partner of F. Trautwein, Oskar Sala, played the middle voice, and the piano-teacher Rudolph Schmidt the bass part. more...

"Zoo of Tranquillity" was inspired by concepts and designs of British artist Paul Spooner, who happens to be a master of sculptural animation. Spooner created an anteater, a lion and aa wood-pecker among others, for his book "Mooving Animals". Johannes Schmoelling was tempted to capture the magic of little absurd machines cheerfully spinning, lazily grinding, endlessly wiggling. more...

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For the 10th anniversary of the label Erdenklang in 1992, these "collectors items" are offering rare titles on CD. Tracks from LPs which are no longer available, previously unreleased tracks from artists or historical rarities like a piece of music from the first performance of the "Erdenklang Symphony" from 1982. more...

Synthesizer music from CSFR. Eastern Sounds of a very special kind . . .
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"Wuivend Riet" is the first solo album of JOHANNES SCHMOELLING. This is a very spacious ambitious work fully reflecting the influences of the media he has been involved in. As a modern day romanticist, JOHANNES SCHMOELLING endeavours to evoke the awareness of all that is meaningful surrounding us through the use of a computer that faithfully reproduces the dreams and images that have been stored in it. more...

LAKOMY 's latest work reflects the most diverse and wide-ranging musical experiences gathered during his 20 years as a musician: compositions for orchestras, ballet, choirs, films and television are just as much a part of these as are popular songs, children's ditties and experimental electronics. more...

"Cornucopia" or "horn of plenty" ... Amáltheia was either a nymph or a goat who with her milk nourished the infant Zeus. Zeus made one of Amáltheia´s broken off horns, from which formerly nectar and ambrosia had flowed, into the inexhaustible, bountiful horn of plenty. As the symbol of superabundance and prosperity, it produces whatever its owner wishes.... more...

Synthesizer music from Bulgaria. A very special sound experience from eastern Europe . .
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The violinist GERD BESSLER is playing absurd and farcical games with our listening habits, taking stylistic jester´s liberties and a shameless reversion to historic clichés. Electronic instrumental music is being freed from its bonds. This is where a musician has simply nothing but fun with the music medium. more...

No one has any faith left in what is said by those in power: Their lies have been too many, too deadly. It is time for a signal questioning the future of living in freedom and peace, brotherhood and tolerance and justice. There is the threat to give up violence and to reduce agressions, giving a commitment to those without rights and to the oppressed. It is no wonder, therefore, to find people the world over beginning to discover a message that is almost two thousand years old, a message that has remained unheard so many times: Jesus of Nazareth's "Sermon On The Mount" more...