top 5 avant garde electronics epics

wektor

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as requested by @mvuent
no room for cute experiments... just the pillars. the towering, timeless classics.
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Catherine Christer Hennix - The Electric Harpsichord

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Recording of a performance at Moderna Museet in 1976 that apparently was pretty, pretty loud. Loud enough to get Hennix banned from playing in Stockholm for a few decades.
You see, this was really a roaring sound, we were really up there in the decibels—the whole building was shaking. It was an incredible experience for all of us to hear this incredible sound but it only lasted for a week or so and then we had to pack up and go home. We were hoping we would get another gig because we thought this was the best sound in town at the time, and many people agreed with this. We got a bigger audience than the Swedish composers ever got when they played in the museum. We were hoping we could do this again even more intensively but none of them wanted to talk to us after this concert, and they still do not talk to me.

I’m sorry.

Yeah, this is 45 years now since I have been able to perform in Stockholm.
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Intended to be played at 90-100dB to work as an Illuminatory Sound Environment aka sonically induced altered state.
 
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Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall

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This one is so catchy I personally consider it a hit.

Bangin' proto-dungeon synth.

Sadly Wada passed away at the beginning of last month :(
 
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hmmm. For me, some really significant omissions here, and a lot of it is droney, which I mostly put into the 'cute experiments' category. But I guess a list like this is always going to be tilted heavily towards the subjective, 5-10 compositions is not nearly enough room to qualify.

That Pita on Mego is brilliant though.
 
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thirdform said:
hmmm. For me, some really significant omissions here, and a lot of it is droney, which I mostly put into the 'cute experiments' category.
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that depends on how loud you turn up the gain!
when it comes to subjectivity, this should actually be called the dad avant-garde electronica top 5, if dissensus was a guitar music forum I'm certain this would be the worst prog thread of all time
 
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