August 10, 2012 Playlist

"Zero Time" by TONTO's Expanding Head Band (1971)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
TONTO's Expanding Head Band  "Zero Time"  1971 (UK)
There is something about electronic pop music that seems to lend itself to duos:  the original pioneers in the sixties were Perrey & Kingsley and Beaver & Krause, and the krautrock renaissance was driven by Hutter & Schneider and Moebius and Roedelius.  Add one more to the list:  brits Malcom Cecil and Robert Margouleff, the men behind TONTO ("The Original New Timbral Orchestra").  TONTO was actually a bunch of moog synthesizers strung together; the moog, though legendary for it's sound, is a monophonic synthesizer, meaning it can only play one note at a time (no chords or harmonies).  Several moogs "singing" together produced some of the most innovative electronic pop of all time, and none other than Stevie Wonder took notice -- he had Margouleff and Cecil programming all his cutting-edge synth sounds on the string of classic albums he recorded in the early 1970's.  Besides their work in the studio for other artists, Bob & Mal released two classic freaky-beautiful albums as TONTO's Expanding Head Band (what a great name!), of which this week's classic album was the first.
Here is a great video of Margouleff & Cecil in the studio with Stevie Wonder, and an audio clip of the leadoff track from this album with an appropriately futuristic title: "Cybernaut".
(N) = New Release
Artist Song Album Year (label) Country
Patti Smith AmerigoBanga (N)2012 (Columbia)USA
Neil Young & Crazy Horse God Save The Queen (trad.)Americana (N)2012 (Reprise)Canada/USA
Ty Segall Band Wave GoodbyeSlaughterhouse (N)2012 (In The Red)USA
The Fuck Knights Knight TerrorsLet It Bleed (N)2011 (Boss Hoss)USA
Shonen Knife Ghost TrainPop Tune (N)2012 (Good Charamel)Japan
The Bama LamasHunger
forthcoming release? (N)2012 (provided by the artist)
USA
Mission of Burma Dust DevilUnSound (N)2012 (Fire)USA
 
  
TONTO's Expanding Head Band
Cybernaut
 		Zero Time
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
UK
TONTO's Expanding Head Band
Jetsex
 		Zero Time
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
UK
TONTO's Expanding Head Band
Timewhys
 		Zero Time
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1971
UK
Kraftwerk
Airwaves
 		Radio-Activity
1975
Germany
Herbie Mann & Tamiko Jones
Day Tripper (Beatles)
 		A Mann And A Woman
1967
USA
Stevie Wonder
Jesus Children Of America
 		Innervisions
1973
USA
 
  
Liars His And Mine SensationsWIXIW (N)2012 (Mute)USA/Australia
Justice
New Lands / Helix
Audio, Video, Disco (N)2011 (Ed Banger)France
CribshitterKeep Partying
Methlehem (N)2012 (Medicated G)
USA
No SurrenderHeart
Medicine Babies (N)2011 (ZerOKilled)
USA
GlowpeopleResound In H Flat
We Glow! (N)2012 (self release)
UK
 
  
Scott Walker
The Escape
 		The Drift
2006
USA/UK
Burial Hex (with Kinit Her) Storm CloudsThe Book Of Delusions (N - previously released on LP's, splits and tapes)2012 (Cold Spring)USA
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras & The Congos
Sunshine
Icon Give Thank (FRKWYS Vol. 9) (N)2012 (RVNG)USA/Jamaica
Can Midnight MenThe Lost Tapes (N - previously unreleased tracks)1970's (2012 Spoon/Mute)Germany
Wet Hair
Vagrant Dawn
 		Wet Hair/Naked On The Vague (split LP)
 		2010
USA
Sonic Youth
Where The Red Fern Grows (live)
 		Sonic Youth EP (2006 reissue with bonus live LP)
 		1981
USA
 
 
Nels Cline Dirty Baby Part VIDirty Baby (N)2010 (Cryptogramophone)USA
PAS Telepathic Rain RaceFlanked By Women And Pumpkins (N)2012 (Alrealon)USA
Gutbucket Said The Trapeze To Gravity (Why Are You So Old?)Flock (N)2011 (Cuneiform)USA
 
 
The Allman Brothers Band
Les Brers In A Minor
 		Eat A Peach
 		1972
USA
Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry
Have Mercy
 		Ceremony
 		1970
UK/France
Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll & The Trinity
Season Of The Witch (Donovan)
 		Open
 		1967
UK
                 
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