Cuneiform
2005
Emissaries
About This Album
Pure, unabashed electronic music was first developed by the likes of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze in the 1970s. The long, meandering compositions, mesmerizing drones, spacy sci-fi effects, and obsessive sequencer reps were occasionally appropriated in some of the more psychedelic strains of prog rock (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, etc.), and electronic music also evolved into ambient/new age when synthesizer musicians began emphasizing melodic content and abandoned the relentless rhythms and dark minor keys. Many elements of traditional electronic music can also be found in contemporary club techno. But classic electronic music is head music -- strictly instrumental, usually minor keyed, melodically minimalist, and not for dancing. Although obscured by other, newer forms, the genre has maintained a core audience, addressing as it does an almost hardwired human need for connection with the cosmos, and it can take a firm hold on anyone who is looking for a psychic journey or vigorous mind massage. Radio Massacre International, a British trio using many of the old analog instruments from electronic music's first generation (e.g., Mellotrons, Moogs, and Korg vocorders), have a dedicated following in the U.
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