Cosmic Tape Music Club hosted by The Galaxy Electric – Details, episodes & analysis

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We saved a doozy for the end of the year as we talk about our favorite Cosmic Tape Music couple with one of our favorite people! The first half of the episode is a piece that was originally recorded live in our aforementioned FB Group. The second half was recorded last week and features our good friend Todd Barton. He actually got to spend a day with Bebe back in the 90s. We talked about his experience with her that day as well as his initial reaction to the classic Sci-fi film Forbidden Planet starring Leslie Nielsen. We also got into the legend of the Krell patch and much much more. It was a hoot and we hope you enjoy this Holiday Extravaganza!

Recommended Listening:

Bebe and Louis - https://youtu.be/aryHMPH7Kcc

Todd's Links:

https://toddbarton.com/

https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd

The Galaxy Electric:

http://www.thegalaxyelectric.com

Personal Music:

Rhys Colenso - No More Struggles

The Tara Experiment - Erverywhere it's Christmas

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He's a avant-garde savant. He had a highly notable education and mentors. He learned to embrace the concept of individualism. He was in it for the long haul and had an incredible work ethic. He was on the cover of SGT. Pepper's! If you are curious about the details of these and many more of Karlheinz's accomplishments then hit that play button and buckle up. We go deep space on Stockhausen in this episode!

Recommended Listening: Kontakte

https://youtu.be/l_UHaulsw3M

Personal Music Section:

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 4 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Halim El-Dabh. Halim was the true pioneer and Godfather of tape music and musique concrete. He was known for his pioneering experimental composition using magnetic tape and wire recorders when the mediums were still in their infancy, for re-recording a sound and processing it through many generations of degradation and enhancement, playing recordings back at various speeds and re-recording them rendering out of this world textures and much much more!

Chapter Summary:

• Introduction and early life
• The Wire Recorder
• His Philosophies
• Trouble at Kent State
• Closing

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 3 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Wendy Carlos. Wendy is a genius as well as the self proclaimed "Original Synth". She is a platinum selling artist, a Grammy winner, and an Ivy League school grad. We share all sorts of facts including winning a science fair by building a computer from scratch, melding the worlds of classical music and synthesizer, the Moog Modular, scoring for Kubrick, digital audio pioneering and much much more!

Chapter Summary:

• Intro
• Early Beginnings
• College
• SOB
• AES Conference Moog sighting
• Rachel Elkind
• Clockwork
• Gonna let it Shine
• Tron
• Inspiration to Tomita
• Stevie Wonder popped by
• Vocoder your Moroder
• microtuning
• Digital is King
• Sticky Shed
• Astrophotographer
• Outro

Personal Music section:

Robert Saint John's Theme for Space Cat - Moog Minimoog Model D, Sub 37.. https://youtu.be/P6qcnqkqcDc

Scott Ampleford performs Canon in D Major - by Johann Pachelbel https://youtu.be/lAMaFwecL8E

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 2 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Sun Ra and his Arkestra band. In short he was a being that claimed he was from the planet Saturn. He was an avid reader and enthusiast of music instrument technology, as well as a virtuosic band leader, composer and pianist/keyboardist. We share all sorts of facts starting with his early life, his alien abduction, the various locations he lived and conducted the band from, his journey through being an early adopter of many different keyboards and synthesizers like the Moog Minimoog and Yamaha DX-7 (to name a few), his mystic ethos, and much much more!

Chapters

• Intro
• Uncertain Origin
• Forbes Piano
• 1st Gear Head
• Organ is the "Tastes Like Chicken" of electronic instruments
• Future Minded
• College
• Alien Abduction
• War Story
• Chicago
• Ghosting
• The band were on call
• Arkestra is Born
• Tape Delay
• A Joyful Noise bit
• Would LCD get an alien high?
• Rolling Stone Cover
• California
• Space is the Place
• One Take
• The Outer Space Visual Communicator
• Cosmic Keys
• Closing Notes

Personal Music section:

Dave Gibson's Mind Evaporator - WF 23 - This Time It's - by Personal Bandana https://personalbandana.bandcamp.com/track/mind-evaporator

Jamal Gray's Shamanism - POLYMATH - by Aquatic Gardener https://aquaticgardens.bandcamp.com/track/shamanism

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Welcome to our inaugural episode of the Cosmic Tape Music Club monthly Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they wax poetic on the topic of Peter Zinovieff: Geologist, Computer and Tape Music Studio Innovator, Electronic Instrument Design Collaborator, Gentleman, and Scholar. We share all sorts of facts starting with his early and family life, buying what he believed to be one of the very first Personal Computers, EMS, the VCS3, Unit Delta Plus, famous folks that rolled through the studio, his obsession with pure randomness, and more.

Timeline:

• Intro 
• Early Life 
• Funding EMS 
• David Cockerell 
• Synchronicity between Synth Designers
• Couldn't be bothered with actually using the Synths
• Is he a tape musician?
• Unit Delta Plus
• Carnival of Lights
• EMS Tech Talk
• EMS's Downfall
• Robin Wood and EMS rebirth
• iVCS3
• Spectron Video Synth
• Randomness
• The Implant
• Pete Kember/Electronic Calendar Album

Personal Music section:

Justin Winn's Audio Emission 02 - The Big Bounce - by TMA-1 Audio Emissions https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/ZJLLQBhpiDaJEYBf6

Gene Maruszewski's Gimme a Break - by Tapewarm https://soundcloud.com/tapewarm-1/gimme-a-break

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 12 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Daphne Oram. What a pioneer of sound and vision.

Recommended Listening: Bird of Parallax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Oc0B6pkl4A

Vimeo video on the Oramics Machine - https://vimeo.com/21310959

Her book - https://www.daphneoram.org/anindividualnote/

Our Daphne-inspired Synth Performance - https://youtu.be/RVb-_xwRN9A

Personal Music Section:

Are you obsessed with early electronic music?? We started a private group for people like you. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cosmictapemusicclub/

Thanks for joining us for Episode 11 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Iannis Xenakis. Thought of by many as the godfather of granular synthesis. He was a multifaceted fellow who's ,perhaps, biggest achievement happened to be in the field of architecture when he was commissioned to design what became the Phillips Pavilion for a world's fair style event called Expo '58 in Brussels. 

Personal Music section:

Moon Worm - Beyond the Clones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&d=n&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3GOEzD_vjDKznZv4h4Un77eU7Sf2vPhFjDmpJpjS2oc8GjvZ25stlnNw0&v=aulODhks8CU

Frozen Pins - 0netwo0netwo

https://0netwo0netwo.bandcamp.com/releases

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Thanks for joining us for Episode 10 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Pierre Schaeffer. Thought of by many as the godfather of sampling, he was known as one of the original purveyors of what is now known as musique concrète. He was also the founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète also known as GRMC/GRM which led to him setting up a studio with a tape recorder that he would learn to master and use as his sole music making device. 

Personal Music section:

by artists Andy Slater, Jon Monteverde and Molly Jones mixed by group member Alex Wilson for the Arcane Object X compilation

https://arcaneobject.bandcamp.com/album/arcane-object-x

From group member Bob Percy under the artist name Second Hand Plan - Problems of Everyday Life

https://secondhandplan.bandcamp.com/album/problems-of-everyday-life

Pierre Schaeffer Inspired live improv by The Galaxy Electric:

https://youtu.be/CZLFSRORTFw

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Are you obsessed with early electronic music?? We started a private group for people like you. https://www.facebook.com/groups/cosmictapemusicclub/

Thanks for joining us for Episode 9 of the Cosmic Tape Music Club Podcast! Join your hosts Jacqueline and Augustus of the experimental pop band The Galaxy Electric as they get cosmic on the topic of Delia Derbyshire. Delia was a key member of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and a Tape Music genius. She was best known for composing the original theme to the popular Sci-Fi television series Dr. Who. However, that was just one of many breathtaking tape pieces. Some say her education as a Mathematician played a seminal role in her ability to compose strictly with chopped up bits of tape. We have a lovely chat about all things Delia and more. 

Personal Music section:

Løgan Mccurter - Primitive Baptist & The Oldest Time Traveler in the World - Primitive Baptist

https://loganmccurter.bandcamp.com/track/primitive-baptist

Michael Vallone - The Tara Experiment - Sensory Deprivation and Mind Control - Further

https://thetaraexperiment.bandcamp.com/track/further

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Join Hosts and Group Members Robert and Kyle as they talk about all things Buchla Electronic Instruments