Seesselberg - Synthetic (1975)

Genteel Death · 10.06.2009, 11:42 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2yG...e=channel_page

Found this on youtube accidentally while looking for videos of Herbert Eimer, and it's really great. I had never heard of them, information seems scarce too.

I've also found some more music by them on the progarchives site. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2831

Genteel Death · 10.06.2009, 11:45 AM

you can always rely on mutant sounds for this sort of thing.

Perhaps an early Konrad Schnitzler album in disguise? From all the random oscillations, squirly modular synth spirals and strange spacious effects, one could easily see this 1973 experimental electronics album as one tape in Schnitzler's vast catalog of studio trickery. There are nine tracks here of cold inhuman synthetics, and where one ends and another begins can only be ascertained by sheer persistence. Like Schnitzler, there are moments of quieter reflection, the sort of music one might find in a 60s B-movie sci-fi flick, where studio musicians reflect the vastness of space with proto-modulars and theremin tweaking. Not a melody to be found in sight, although there are plenty of abstract visions of sattelite orbitals, distant supernovas, radar pings, alien spacecraft and the like. Overall, it's kind of a neat album, especially considering most of Schnitzler's experiments that are similar were recorded later (a strong example is 1988's Constellations). But, considering its rarity, it's unlikely to be anything more than a serious collector's item for the abstractly inclined.
Mike McLatchey
10-August-2002

http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/20...etic-1975.html

fugazifan · 10.06.2009, 11:54 AM

i think i have an album of theirs on my computer and i remember it being really great. but i need to relisten to it...
checking out the vid now, thanks

Genteel Death · 10.07.2009, 05:02 AM

I haven't downloaded the one posted on mutant sounds yet. Hopefully it's in the same vein as the video on youtube.

fugazifan · 10.07.2009, 06:58 AM

i listened to the first side yesterday, it is exactly what is on the vid...or at least very similar

Keeping It Simple · 10.07.2009, 07:05 AM

I hope you guys have heard of Kraftwerk, who formed in 1970. Here's footage of the group performing a song on tv in 1973.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCg7hPeUdvE

Genteel Death · 10.07.2009, 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fugazifan

i listened to the first side yesterday, it is exactly what is on the vid...or at least very similar

Cool. I just finished downloading it and I'll give it a proper listen tonight.

Savage Clone · 10.07.2009, 11:39 PM

I have an original of this one.
A jewel in my collection.

10.06.2009, 11:42 AM	#1
Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh2yG...e=channel_page Found this on youtube accidentally while looking for videos of Herbert Eimer, and it's really great. I had never heard of them, information seems scarce too. I've also found some more music by them on the progarchives site. http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2831
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10.06.2009, 11:45 AM	#2
Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	you can always rely on mutant sounds for this sort of thing. Perhaps an early Konrad Schnitzler album in disguise? From all the random oscillations, squirly modular synth spirals and strange spacious effects, one could easily see this 1973 experimental electronics album as one tape in Schnitzler's vast catalog of studio trickery. There are nine tracks here of cold inhuman synthetics, and where one ends and another begins can only be ascertained by sheer persistence. Like Schnitzler, there are moments of quieter reflection, the sort of music one might find in a 60s B-movie sci-fi flick, where studio musicians reflect the vastness of space with proto-modulars and theremin tweaking. Not a melody to be found in sight, although there are plenty of abstract visions of sattelite orbitals, distant supernovas, radar pings, alien spacecraft and the like. Overall, it's kind of a neat album, especially considering most of Schnitzler's experiments that are similar were recorded later (a strong example is 1988's Constellations). But, considering its rarity, it's unlikely to be anything more than a serious collector's item for the abstractly inclined. Mike McLatchey 10-August-2002 http://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/20...etic-1975.html
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10.06.2009, 11:54 AM	#3
fugazifan invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,816	i think i have an album of theirs on my computer and i remember it being really great. but i need to relisten to it... checking out the vid now, thanks __________________ If there's been a way to build it, There'll be a way to destroy it, Things are not that out of control www.myspace.com/dellilahtheband www.myspace.com/lecirquedesvampiresmusic
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10.07.2009, 05:02 AM	#4
Genteel Death invito al cielo Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 8,744	I haven't downloaded the one posted on mutant sounds yet. Hopefully it's in the same vein as the video on youtube.
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10.07.2009, 06:58 AM	#5
fugazifan invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,816	i listened to the first side yesterday, it is exactly what is on the vid...or at least very similar __________________ If there's been a way to build it, There'll be a way to destroy it, Things are not that out of control www.myspace.com/dellilahtheband www.myspace.com/lecirquedesvampiresmusic
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10.07.2009, 07:05 AM	#6
Keeping It Simple invito al cielo Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 3,721	I hope you guys have heard of Kraftwerk, who formed in 1970. Here's footage of the group performing a song on tv in 1973. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCg7hPeUdvE
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10.07.2009, 11:39 PM	#8
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,290	I have an original of this one. A jewel in my collection.
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