V/A - Square Wave 2: Electronic Music 1955-1983

An excellent compilation of groundbreaking works in a then still-nascent genre. Or to the uninitiated, some haunting textures punctuated by bleeps and bloops. Released by Default Tapes.

TRACKLIST:

SIDE A

Delia Derbyshire - Dreaming (1976)

Raymond Scott - Lightworks (1960)

Slava Tsukerman - Sunset (1982)

Iannis Xenakis - Orient Occident (1960)

Dariush Dolat Shahi-Razm (1983)

Daphne Oram - Manchester 2/Electronic Sound Patterns (1962)

James Tenney - Collage No. 1 Blue Suede (1961)

Jean Eichelberger Ivey - Pinball (1965)

Yannis Vlachopoulous - Morphes 2 (1974)

Claudio Rocchi - Apertura (1975)

Laurie Spiegel - Pentachrome (1980)

Hugh Le Cain - Dripsody (1955)

Tod Dockstader - Pond Dance (1980)

Bruce Haack - When The Music Stops (1972)

Malcolm Clarke - Midsummer Elves/Fairy Appears/Fair Disappears (1976)

SIDE B

Daphne Oram - Hospital (196?)

Richard Maxfield - Night Music (1966)

Ilhan Mimaroglu - Bowery Bum (1964)

Morton Subotnick - Until Spring (1976)

Raymond Scott - The Bassline Generator (1966)

Tod Dockstader - Night Wolves (1980)

Philip Sanderson - Under Press Of Sail (1979)

Conrad Schnitzler - Electric Garden (1978)

Harmonia - Watussi (1974)

Bernard Parmegiani - Pop Eclectic (1968)

Alvin Lucier - North American Time Capsule 1967

Jean Baronnet + Francois Dufrene - u47 (1960)

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