Electronica Pioneers Wendy Carlos & Frank Zappa

ff4sale · Post by **ff4sale** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:53 pm

Just wanted to take this opportunity to acknowledge 2 awesome albums from 2 awesome composers.

-Frank Zappa's "Jazz From Hell"-
Amazing album all programmed on the synclavier. All I can say - crazy programming chops - 10 years before Aphex Twin. I spent an entire summer listening to it when starting out as an electronica kid. Gotta have it!

-Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach"-
Some of the coolest sounding stuff ever. All Bach tunes programmed on a Moog modular. Really brings out the ultraviolence in me!

terragong · Post by **terragong** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:16 pm

yes wendy s bach is ..great but listen to -her -his -sonic seasonings....a super athmo master work..the rain in spring is fantastic..orginal CBS s67267---.greeting from berlin

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:30 pm

i love zappa, he did almost everything before anyone.

he was one of the first to do comedy based pop music...

i love sheikh yerbooty! and you cant do that onstage anymore.

also he first did hip hop/trip hop with the grooves on "the torture never stops"

computo · Post by **computo** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:49 pm

too boil Zappa's musical accomplishments down to just those two things is to diminish all he did for Music.

Zappa was not only one of the finest, most exacting composers of our time, he was also, likely one of the most important American composers in history.

His opera's and orchestral works are world reknowned, and are performed by major orchestras fairly regularly. The opera's less frequently, but they still get performed.

His rock show was equally as intricate, and was written out almost note for note, minus cadenzas and solos.

Zappa also really added a sense of "I really just dont give a fuck" to his music, while still making the statement, "this is everything that is important to me".

Then count in the fact that he was an outspoken supporter of the First Amendment, and a patriots politician. Easily one of the most wellspoken artists to ever represent the side of commonsense in recent years.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:01 pm

computo wrote:too boil Zappa's musical accomplishments down to just those two things is to diminish all he did for Music.

Zappa was not only one of the finest, most exacting composers of our time, he was also, likely one of the most important American composers in history.

His opera's and orchestral works are world reknowned, and are performed by major orchestras fairly regularly. The opera's less frequently, but they still get performed.

His rock show was equally as intricate, and was written out almost note for note, minus cadenzas and solos.

Zappa also really added a sense of "I really just dont give a fuck" to his music, while still making the statement, "this is everything that is important to me".

Then count in the fact that he was an outspoken supporter of the First Amendment, and a patriots politician. Easily one of the most wellspoken artists to ever represent the side of commonsense in recent years.

well said,

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:36 pm

Weren't his albums banned in Romania during the communist regime? It seems to me that I read somewhere once that Zappa reccords became an underground commodity, a symbol of disobedience - and eventually, he was named a state hero or something after the fall of Ceausescu?

EARLGREY · Post by **EARLGREY** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:13 pm

Zappa...true genius !

Wanna hear the best live-band ever?
" you can't do that on stage anymore #2 - the helsinki concert "
sheer perfection....

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:32 pm

M. Bréqs wrote:Weren't his albums banned in Romania during the communist regime? It seems to me that I read somewhere once that Zappa reccords became an underground commodity, a symbol of disobedience - and eventually, he was named a state hero or something after the fall of Ceausescu?

perhaps you are thinking of the Czech "velvet revolution", he was named as the US trade representative by Havel's Czech government!

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:40 pm

Zappa's band in on tour again, tix for the SF show go on sale this weekend, I think it's the last show of the tour. It's Dweezil filling in and the WHOLE lineup including Vai.

I don't know his music that well but you can't deny his genious.

This is a video of Zappa on Crossfire (3-28-86), he was so ahead of his time, he called it, FASCIST THEOCRACY. A must see video:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658805?htv=12

jackmazzotti · Post by **jackmazzotti** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 11:41 pm

lets not leave out tangerine dream

nolus · Post by **nolus** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 12:07 am

speaking of Zappa, I just found this classic claymation video on youtube

ahh nostalgia...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YhPksR7gS6I

LOFA · Post by **LOFA** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 7:26 am

DeadlyKungFu wrote:Zappa's band in on tour again, tix for the SF show go on sale this weekend, I think it's the last show of the tour. It's Dweezil filling in and the WHOLE lineup including Vai.

I don't know his music that well but you can't deny his genious.

This is a video of Zappa on Crossfire (3-28-86), he was so ahead of his time, he called it, FASCIST THEOCRACY. A must see video:
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2658805?htv=12

I owe you one. Amazing.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 8:46 am

Great clip!

Chris J · Post by **Chris J** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:45 pm

we miss you Frank !

computo · Post by **computo** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 11:15 pm

zappa, Biggie, ODB and tupac are all smokin blunts together on a desert island somewhere...

Yeah, yeah, I know Zappa didnt do ANY drugs...but come on, if you were on a secret desert island with those three, you'd start smoking too.