Today’s SOTD is a 1983 “proto-techno” classic from Conny Plank, Dieter Moebius and Mani Neumeier. As former members of Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Guru, the trio were pretty accustomed to pushing musical boundaries, as this energetic and mad effort shows. Taken from their album ‘Zero Set’, the track is still lauded amongst electronic/techno connoisseurs for [...]
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Single of the Day – Michael Bundt – The Brain of Oskar Panizza
Hello Space Cadets! Join us as we continue our far out cosmic trip from the last post! Today’s SOTD comes from Michael Bundt, who was the bassist of German progressive rock outfit Nine Days Wonder. Taken from his debut 1977 solo album “Just Landed Cosmic Kid”, “Brain of Oskar Panizza” is a cult piece of [...]
Ghoulish Delight #5: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
Just look at Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson doing the fabulous prog/folk/psych number ‘Witch’s Promise’ on Top of the Pops in 1970! Look at him! He’s like a mad combination of Rasputin and someone you might see on Time Team! He’s singing about a witch, as well. Stick this on at your Halloween party and it’ll go [...]
Single of The Day – H. Tical – Equilibrium
The new Permanent Vacation compilation ‘Space Oddities Vol.2′, compiled by Alexis Le-Tan & Jess, is a brilliant collection of spaced-out, cosmic, groovy library music from the 70s and 80s. More psychedelic and proggy than Vol.1, it features some killer tracks from some of the finest soundtrack libraries in the world (CAM, Telemusic, Crea etc). ‘Equilibrium’ [...]
