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quoted 6 lines Moog Indigo is a great record but the one that really does it for me is

>Moog Indigo is a great record but the one that really does it for me is >the reissue of Dick Hyman's moog record. Every time I listen to it I >have to again struggle to convince myself that it's really 30 years old. > >Any pointers to other music like this? Maybe I should just go resub to >the exotica list...

find an album by pierre henry called _messe pour le temps présent_ with a track on it called _psyche rock_ don't buy the remix version. make sure its the original one. available on vinyl again. excellent moog funk __French composer and electronic musician Pierre Henry was an important and influential figure in the development of musique conrete. This refers to any electro-acoustic music that uses acoustic sounds as source material. The term musique concrete was coined by Pierre Schaeffer in 1948 who would collaborate with Henry on many of his pieces including the Symphonie pour un homme seul. Schaeffer and Henry would also found the first institutionally sponsored musique conrete studio in 1951 under the aegis of the French Radio and Television network. Pierre studied composition at the Paris Conservatoire with such composers as Oliver Messiaen and Nadie Boulanger. His early pieces were written in collaboration with Schaeffer but would later (1958) establish a private electronic music studio. Henry's music concrete would feature a large varieties of sounds treated by tape manipulation techniques such as looping, speed change, and tape delay__