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Switched-On Bach
: :Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is one of those rare novelty recordings that never gets boring. In the capable hands of Carlos, Bach's keyboard masterpieces sound like they were made for the otherworldly blurps, farts, and chimes of a Moog synthesizer. And, in a sense, they were. Bach's inventive music doesn't lose any of it's contrapuntal punch in these complicated arrangements and, novelties aside, the playing is great on this Grammy Award-winning classic. Whether performing Bach's 'Two-Part Inventions,' 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,' or 'Wachet Auf,' Carlos ...
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Prayer: A Windham Hill Collection
from: RCA
: :Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is one of those rare novelty recordings that never gets boring. In the capable hands of Carlos, Bach's keyboard masterpieces sound like they were made for the otherworldly blurps, farts, and chimes of a Moog synthesizer. And, in a sense, they were. Bach's inventive music doesn't lose any of it's contrapuntal punch in these complicated arrangements and, novelties aside, the playing is great on this Grammy Award-winning classic. Whether performing Bach's 'Two-Part Inventions,' 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,' or 'Wachet Auf,' Carlos ...
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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
: :Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is one of those rare novelty recordings that never gets boring. In the capable hands of Carlos, Bach's keyboard masterpieces sound like they were made for the otherworldly blurps, farts, and chimes of a Moog synthesizer. And, in a sense, they were. Bach's inventive music doesn't lose any of it's contrapuntal punch in these complicated arrangements and, novelties aside, the playing is great on this Grammy Award-winning classic. Whether performing Bach's 'Two-Part Inventions,' 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,' or 'Wachet Auf,' Carlos ...
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Before and After Science
: :Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach is one of those rare novelty recordings that never gets boring. In the capable hands of Carlos, Bach's keyboard masterpieces sound like they were made for the otherworldly blurps, farts, and chimes of a Moog synthesizer. And, in a sense, they were. Bach's inventive music doesn't lose any of it's contrapuntal punch in these complicated arrangements and, novelties aside, the playing is great on this Grammy Award-winning classic. Whether performing Bach's 'Two-Part Inventions,' 'Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring,' or 'Wachet Auf,' Carlos ...
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Debussy: Snowflakes Are Dancing, Prelude, etc / Tomita
from: RCA
: :Back in the '70s, the rapid development of synthesizers and electronic keyboards had a huge impact on popular music, with Isao Tomita among the leading exponents of multimedia, surround-sound events associated in Western Europe with such very different musicians as Rick Wakeman and Jean-Michel Jarre. The present disc has less grandiose aims, being a well-balanced selection of, to quote the original liner notes, 'Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings.' It's easy to scoff at the concept behind Tomita's approach--take some of the most poetic ...
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Discreet Music
from: Astralwerks
: :Back in the '70s, the rapid development of synthesizers and electronic keyboards had a huge impact on popular music, with Isao Tomita among the leading exponents of multimedia, surround-sound events associated in Western Europe with such very different musicians as Rick Wakeman and Jean-Michel Jarre. The present disc has less grandiose aims, being a well-balanced selection of, to quote the original liner notes, 'Virtuoso electronic performances of Debussy's beautiful tone paintings.' It's easy to scoff at the concept behind Tomita's approach--take some of the most poetic ...
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Creative Mind System
from: Relaxation
:Album Description:Great artists, inventors, business visionaries, and other highly creative people seem to have brains which work in an extraordinary way, and in fact, they do. Neuroscience researchers agree that a common pattern of brainwave activity called the Creative Mind Pattern holds the key to their creative genius. The Creative Mind System CD uses breakthrough audio processes which stimulate the Creative Mind Pattern in your own brainwaves, which brings you to a natural state of heightened creativity. These powerful recording processes have been developed by Dr. ...
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The Yellow Shark
from: Zappa Records
: :Released shortly after his death in 1993, The Yellow Shark represents one of the only accurate performances of Frank Zappa's 'serious' orchestral music--at least as far as the composer was concerned. Assembled from a series of sold-out performances in Germany by the Ensemble Moderne, the set includes re-workings of old favorites like 'The Dog Breath Variations' and 'Uncle Meat,' live arrangements of some of his hairiest computer music like 'The Girl in the Magnesium Dress' and 'G-Spot Tornado' and new works by Zappa composed specifically for ...
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Switched-On Boxed Set
from: East Side Digital
: :In 1968, keyboardist-composer Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach, her bestselling LP featuring baroque music performed on the Moog synthesizer. Carlos intended to spread the gospel of electronic classical music through this quirky release; instead, she sold more albums than Karlheinz Stockhausen could ever dream of, released a few follow-ups, and paved the way for Hot Butter's 'Popcorn.' Carlos has since become well known for more than just these wacky classical interpretations--she recorded the soundtracks to A Clockwork Orange and Tron and released new works--but the Switched-Ons ...
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Switched-On Bach II
from: East Side Digital
: :In 1968, keyboardist-composer Wendy Carlos released Switched-On Bach, her bestselling LP featuring baroque music performed on the Moog synthesizer. Carlos intended to spread the gospel of electronic classical music through this quirky release; instead, she sold more albums than Karlheinz Stockhausen could ever dream of, released a few follow-ups, and paved the way for Hot Butter's 'Popcorn.' Carlos has since become well known for more than just these wacky classical interpretations--she recorded the soundtracks to A Clockwork Orange and Tron and released new works--but the Switched-Ons ...
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