Scanning: Aether Talk

Satie, Erik

Vexations

… Erik Satie’s Vexations running underneath as unresolved counterpoint …

Phuture

Acid Tracks

Phuture’s “Acid Tracks” […] and many others contributed to an emergent movement in Britain, now enshrined in popular mythology as rave.

Model 500

Night Drive (Thru Babylon)

… Model 500’s “No UFOs” and “Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)” […] and many others contributed to an emergent movement in Britain, now enshrined in popular mythology as rave.

Kraftwerk

Trans-Europe Express

The futuristic vision of hypnotic living and machine sex was imported from Europe: from Germany came Kraftwerk with “Autobahn” and “Trans-Europe Express” …

Summer, Donna

Love To Love You Baby

… came Giorgio Moroder with Donna Summer’s “Love To Love You Baby”

Various

Ambient 4: Isolationism

One member of AMM is now dead, one has left the group, but a track by the latest AMM incarnation was included on Virgin Records’ Ambient 4: Isolationism album in 1994.

Hillage, Steve

Rainbow Dome Musick

Wandering around the chill-out room upstairs, he was pleased to hear a track from his own Rainbow Dome Musick.

Sueño Latino

Sueño Latino

We spent the Sundays looping one sample from, like, 808 State or ‘Sueño Latino’, or something that was, like, very obvious – the Hovis advert.”

Göttsching, Manuel

E2-E4

The basic tune was taken from a strange electronic disco-minimalist album, E2-E4, recorded in the early 1980s by Manuel Göttsching and released by Klaus Schulze.

Ash Ra

New Age of Earth

Albums such as New Age of Earth epitomised the difference between UK and European rock; pictured on the back of the album cover, Göttsching was still dressed like a 1969 hippie – long hair, flowing scarf, Gibson guitar.

The KLF

Chill Out

… but close enough in the vastness of its cosmic rumblings and heavenly choirs to infer such Rick Wakeman-style prog-rock concepts. Chill Out …