records that saw the future
captainplanet
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kinda weird example of this phenomenon, but I was skimming this kikrokos lp (cerrone/kongas rel.) and heard this little moment that pretty much blew me away. recorded in '78, this sounds like a techno/house beat that coulda been produced last year- made with entirely analogue synths! there's a ton of examples, but this one started me thinking. 
take a listen:what are some other examples of songs (not even necessarily good ones) that sounded out the future. Silver Apples comes to mind, so does Jean-Jacques Perrey, and James Brown.
take a listen:what are some other examples of songs (not even necessarily good ones) that sounded out the future. Silver Apples comes to mind, so does Jean-Jacques Perrey, and James Brown.
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i know the one getting a lot of hype lately in a similar vein is that black devil disco club LP
price scan!! please!!
Can - Fall of another year
This song is fresh, and it definitely doesn't sound like it's from '68.
- spidey
mine set me back $1. not sure how hard it is to turn up, but here's a link to MP3 download:
http://getupandboogie.blogspot.com/2008/01/kikrokos-jungle-dj-and-dirty-kate-1978.html
CAN definitely fit the bill.
Wow, this shit jacks! That really is quite amazing, I can't really think of any other songs that had that sound that early. You should do a re-edit sir.
Def
Sounds good..that Black Devil whatchamacallit stuff is good too from what I heard a few years ago. I'd like to hear more.
wow! good example.
I sold that LP last year. I remember that passage, but overall I wasn't that keen on it. But yeah, that snippet definitely fits the "crystal ball" category.
When it comes to synth-based music, I've heard some crazy futuristic stuff on Italian libraries.
This deserves a mention too:
Everyone sweats "Horrorscope" (and rightly so), but to me, the last song on the album, "Lifetide" is just as killer in a different way.
RALPH LUNDSTEN - "LIFETIDE"
http://www.zshare.net/audio/672989566715d5/
Big washes of ambient mush with some nasteee discofunk bubbling underneath. The band sounds like they're recorded in another galaxy. Live drums, mixed to sound like a machine. Boom on the kick, snare is almost inaudible, phaser on the hihat. Add farty synthbass, plastic-sounding clavinet and cheese guitar. Sounds as fresh today as it did in '79 IMO.
This reminds me that I still need to get "Discophrenia".
As for Daft Punk's "Homework", I remember thinking at the time that an awful lot of that record echoed the Cajual/Relief/Radikal Fear sound that had been pretty popular in some UK clubs a few years earlier. Personally, I think "Discovery" scores much higher on the
Thought the same thing about the Kikrokos track when I picked it up a few years ago. It is pretty jacking techno after what is some pretty cheesy disco for most of the track.It is weird but i have never played it out.
Erotic Drum Band- Love Disco Style 12" has a section where it becomes techno-like in a similar vein
ESG-UFO was Drum and Bass before its time
Total cosign. This record kicks ass, and it is way ahead of it's time. And yes, I sweat Horrorscope.
But then wtf do I know, I hate that sound
A Certain Ratio?
I don't think The Human League sound that dated.
The Steely Dan 70's catalog still sounds clean.
a)specific recordings that sound like they weren't recorded when they were, but could pass for having been recorded at another specific time (perhaps even now).
b)bands/records/songs that were ahead of their time, or even "out of time"
For category "b" I nominate...
early Pere Ubu
early Devo
early Chrome
Shuggie Otis
early Soft Machine
Raincoats
Slits
Swell Maps
This Heat
United States of America
lotsa Sun Ra
too many Krautrockers to mention
and
very influential in splinterings of 60s psych-rock into 70s prog and fusion, very influential on/involved in later post-punk era of Canterbury scene. Maybe Soft Machine of 1968 didn't see 2008, but at the very least they saw 1975 and 1982.
Mizzell brother production + CTI = Helped usher in the smooth jazz movement.
Mizell product >>>>>>>>>>> smooth.
Smooth has got some nice chords, and top playing, but I think the musicians are strictly and deliberately limited in what they can do - chastised for putting too much into it. Apparently doesn't go down well with the test clowns with electrodes taped to their heads.
I remember Dianne Reeves commenting that some of her work was rejected by a radio network because they told her, deadpan, that she was "Emoting too much".
They probably stream "Slayer" now.
i like the oddball-ness of the first choice cuz it sounds like a generic version of 90% of contemporary 'minimal' techno + a disco beat ... real strange coincidence. but its not like techno artists have been bumping this record for 30 yrs
I do see what you're saying, and in my post was trying to make a distinction between the commonly-known "b"s and the more obscure "a"s.
one of the tracks sounds EXACTLY[/b] like Air
check out "Preghiera" @ 50 seconds
http://librarymusic209.blogspot.com/2007/11/enrico-intra-oltre-il-tempo-oltre-lo.html