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Switched on Bach
Never seen this available on YT before… a classic !
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Memories, bro.
It’s weirdly missing from Apple Music. I’ve checked, and there’s almost nothing from Wendy Carlos there.
I’ve search before and never found anything @michael_m , that’s why I was surprised to find this 😊
Definitely puzzling. It’s not as if the composer is imposing any limitations…
I think Wendy has an issue with streaming services, copyright etc etc as far as I can tell…
Yeah, Carlos is famously grouchy about copyright and her legacy. The disclaimers on this video aside, I’d be surprised if it remains up for long.
I hate to mention it here because it doesn't benefit the original artist in any way (but it does, in fact exist)... you can find these early works over on the Internet Archive.
(EDIT: Changed the post because it was inelegantly worded.)
That’s a good point, but even less under Walter than Wendy.
King Crimson’s stuff is now available to stream I notice but Wendy Carlos is still mostly missing. It’s probably the right decision financially to stay away. Stick it on Bandcamp Wendy. Hold the line.
King Crimson’s stuff has mostly been on streaming platforms for some time, but I was very glad this year to see Earthbound added.
Wow thanks for sharing! It’s hard to find her work anywhere. Even on physical media. I’m sure this won’t remain up for long but I’m glad it’s there for now. I’d love to see her chuck her works up on Bandcamp, I’d buy in a heartbeat.
I don't know about streaming (other than I know the per song compensation for musicians is minuscule), but for older bands with waning popularity due to their music being so difficult to find, they really need to exploit the material they have with the time they have left. Their legacy won't last if their works cannot be played anywhere.
I agree @HotStrange , I still remember vividly putting the needle down on the vinyl and this unbelievable music coming out. I was probably 15 ish at the time. The even more amazing thing is that the Moogs were monophonic so everything was double, triple, quadruple etc tracked.
My friends and I found it (along with Black Mass Lucifer) on vinyl in an abandoned house. We were like 18 and just getting really really into synths. Our minds were completely blown. Her and Mort Garson have been 2 huge influences on me ever since.
Exactly the same for me. I still have that LP but sadly nothing to play it on these days. It was what got me interested in synths though.
Yes, this album is difficult to find nowadays. I have a track from it on an old CSB sampler album called Rock Machine, I Love You. It was one of the tracks that got me into electronic music (eventually, once the equipment became more affordable!)
I really hope it won’t be lost to time. This album, Gary Numan, Love Will Tear Us Apart from Joy Division, and Mort Garson were pivotal in me getting into synthesizers.
Carlos, Tomita, Devo, Kraftwerk all inspired me as a kid.
I would also add Jean-Jaques Perrey, who was an early electronic composer, whose sounds were often quite humorous, rather like Tomita in some ways. Alan “Fluff” Freeman used to play JJP’s music mixed in with his usual Prog and classical music on his radio show. But I have not heard any of his music for ages!
Most of Wendy’s stuff is available to buy on CD on Amazon, Switched on Bach’s
Best Sellers Rank is: 13,912 in CDs & Vinyl
155 in Electronica
1,186 in Classical Music (CDs & Vinyl)
6,235 in Pop. £20 plus £10 delivery. I wonder what would happen to those sales if it was streaming everywhere too
It looks like the great boxed cd set I get in the early aughts is no longer in print.
Her album also really introduced me to the magic of synthesizers and even had an influence on my interest in baroque music.
When I finally bought my first synth, a DX-7 I wanted to try making something similar and picked Handel’s Concerto Grossi. I transcribed the score of op.6 #1 to midi by step recording each instrument. When I looked back on it, I think it probably took me longer to do that than it took Handel to write it.
So I dug out the old recordings I made in 1990. A decade or more later, just for fun, I added some sound effects to make it sound like a “live” concert.
So, it’s all FM, a dx-7 and a tx-81z.
It’s already gone! I totally missed it.
Didn’t think it would be long 😞
Damn already huh 😞
I found an original pressing of the vinyl record in a “books, records, and tapes for sale” box at our local library branch a few years ago.
Yeah, it was an insta-buy at $2! (and worth all two hundred pennies!)
Damn that’s awesome. Hope I can score a copy sometime soon