happy #InternationalSynthDay! here's a thread with some of my most beloved weird old electronic music. come get your analog synths on

starting with this absolute banger from fad gadget, which you may have heard in stranger things:

wendy carlos is one if the most iconic composers in hollywood, but sadly she's been erased from music history. she scored films like tron, a clockwork orange and the shining

jean-hacques perrey and gershon kingsley, on TV in 1966, making la danse macabre sound like something out of looney tunes:

this sounds exactly like daft punk to me. and it was recorded in 1978. in a homemade synth. bruce haack was an absolute madman

i'm a big, big, BIG fan of bruce haack's 1969 record the electric lucifer, which is a concept album about satanism played entirely on screechy homemade synths

another album with a similar vibe is mort garson's ataraxia - the unexplained, from 1975. if you listen to the adventure zone, you'll know it - the intro is a song called deja vu.

one thing that really gets me about old electronica is how organic it all sounds, often leaning towards the chaotic. it was no man's land before kraftwerk came along and brought some order

speaking of kraftwerk. this is probably my favourite album of theirs. i love how crunchy the synths sound, like the sound itself's been subjected to radioactive display

patrick crowley used to score gay pornos. imagine that. it's the 70s. you go to the cinema to get your rocks off, because it's the 70s, and you end up witnessing nothing less than a revolution in pop music

i heard this album after someone recommended it to me saying "it sounds like going insane". nowadays when i describe it to people i say it sounds like the soundtrack to uncut gems, but really, what's the difference?

england. 1972. this performance would've been revolutionary even it was fully acoustic, but then you have brian eno in the corner channeling god through his moog

did you know that the doctor who theme song was made by a woman? delia derbyshire never really got the credit she deserved for it, as well as the rest of her revolutionary work in the BBC radiophonic orchestra

delia was once part of an avant-garde project named white noise. it sounds like music from another planet.

oh! i forgot to mention this other absolute banger from mort garson. plantasia was once an incredibly obscure record, meant to be played to plants to help them grow better. fortunately it recently became a cult classic, thanks to the internet

another thing i love about electronica in the 1960s/70s are the novelty moog records, like this one, which covers rock songs

this entire record is synthpop in its simplest, purest form. the catchiest beeps & boops you'll ever hear. also, gay cat park is the best band name in the world

donna summer and giorgio moroder. the blueprint.

another giorgio moroder banger, this time with sparks:

this was released in 1960. nineteen-fucking-sixty. the same year the fucking beatles were formed.

for some reason*, disco music never gets the credit it deserves for its influence on electronic music. it was always much more creative and open-minded than, say, rock.

*the reason is racism

sigue sigue sputnik were essentially con artists first and musicians second, but that doesn't mean they didn't release some bangers, as well as having their aesthetics on fucking POINT

i'm just gonna leave this here. nothing i could say could possibly add to this absolute masterpiece. the song picks up about one or two minutes in, after the vocoded maoist poetry ends

this song gives me chills. it's worth it checking out the lyrics and what they mean.

another song that fucks me up every time i hear it :))) it was based on dolby's uncle, a submariner who died in WWII

the space lady is an angel on earth and no one can convince me otherwise

gonna close this thread with some psykosonik - this entire album is the epitome of 1990s edgelord culture, and i legitimately love it with all my heart. it makes me feel like i'm in a cyberpunk story.