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Mercury versus Mercury
Both from albums of electronicized versions of Holst's The Planets released the same year - 1976. Wonder which came out first and who ...
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Okay, let's see how things had shifted, in terms of the canon, slightly more than a decade after the 1974 appraisal by the critics of t... -
Onto the third installment of this series - the NME 's list of the Greatest Albums of All Time, published on October 2 1993. Here, it... -
I have written before about the Drops Away Syndrome... that thing where artists seem supremely relevant and core-canonic at a particular mo...
I don't know if you knew that NASA recorded the resonant frequencies of the planets in their orbits and converted them to sound. You can hear them here:
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Saturn and Pluto sound exactly like their reputation suggests!
There was a Italian electronic musician lady composer who did something like that in the '90s - converting interstellar radiation or pulses from distant stars and galaxies - but the end result sounded like trance!
ReplyDeleteSome of those planetary sounds are vaguely familiar to me, and I've got a strong suspicion that they were used by Chrome on Alien Soundtracks and Half-Machine Lip Moves. Hmmmm.......
ReplyDeleteMatthew Ingram's e-book about overlooked 70s rock included this, bought it on the back of the effusive recommendation and it was all true, great stuff
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