Before Psychedelia, There Was SPACE AGE Music

Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

As soon as you started the nonsense about appropriation I was out, but see you next time your vids are great overall

Royksopp is a more modern musician that gives me space age vibes. Check him out if you're interested in some dope space electronic pop.

Pete Drake is one of my favorite artists during this time. His innovation of the "talk box" was not only a massive stepping stone of future music creation.. he utilized it in a way that seemingly turned the soul into sound. Incredible.. Forever is one of my favorite songs.

Esquivel!! "The King of Space Age Pop"

the BBC experiments (the Doctor Who theme!) and the latin easy-listening movement (Perez-Prado comes to mind) where also relevant at the time. great video and hair as always 😉

Esquivel – obviously! That dude was on another planet. And if you like to read, RE: Search put out two volumes of Incredibly Strange Music, excellent sources of info for this stuff and everything weird. Great video tho, I was genuinely surprised at the final choice, but Dick Hyman put out some amazing moog stuff (and not just a hilarious name, he also got a Beastie Boys shout-out, but can't remember where – I think on Ill Communication somewhere)

Even Impressionist and early experimental/avant garde composers like Ravel, Debussey and of course Satie were already creating 'mood' and 'ambiance' music specifically designed to be the background music for experiences and activities. It is no coincidence that their music inspired legends like Joe Meek and Brian Wilson, and became popular again during the psychedelic pop era, and is also often mentioned as an important influence on modern electronic and ambient composers like Delia, Riley, and eventually the inevitable Brian Eno and of course Richard Norris.

You can really hear how these albums influced jg thirlwell for the venture bros soundtrack

I've been dreaming of making an electronic space age style album using at least some of the old tech, some of which I have on hand. Looks like I have some new records to seek out.

Sure ya if you're going to play Yma, imma listen.

I started collecting this sort of vinyl in the 1990s. It is a big inspiration in my own band. I can tell you know the subject pretty well, so you know you jumped over huge movements in music with only a sentence or two. Honestly, covering this subject could be an entire season of a music documentary show… the depth and reach of it is stunning. The evolution of early exotica from Martin Denny to Les Baxter starting his own band to Mongo Santamaria to the Hawaii music craze, Arthur Lyman to Latin dance… Prada, Cugat, Esquivel, cal tjader, to satanic/witch music, surf / drag race music…

Early techno, Perry & Kingsley, the exotica revival of the 90s, combustible Edison, hot jazz and gypsy…

how jazz and African folk blended into ska and then reggae, which eventually created dub, ragamuffin, jungle and influenced drum and bass and dubstep.

Exotica was a big influence on Jerry Dammers of the Specials and the other 2 Tone artists, and a lot of that subtly carried over into my favorite American ska bands.

how tribal and punk fused new wave Joy Division with Dead Can Dance to pioneer the entire Gothic new romantic genre… to steampunk and electro swing.

Heck you could do an entire episode on Korla Pandit alone.

I do like seeing that others still like this kind of stuff.

The use of broadway tunes as comically inappropriate lounge material – I have to laugh or I'll cry. "Lost In The Stars" by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson (from the musical of the same name) is this nice theremin song on "Music For Heavenly Bodies" at 15:40 .

In the original musical, adapted from "Cry, The Beloved Country," it's a priest in South Africa whose son just κוIIεd a white man and is going to hang for it, trying to explain to a child through his grief that maybe racism will never be solved, you lose hope, "and sometimes I feel maybe God's gone away, forgetting the promise that we heard him say, and we're lost out there in the stars."

"You know what this song about racism and despair and the loss of faith, written by a Jewish refugee from the Reich, what this song definitely calls for? Space age instrumental for the suburban American living room." I've seen nothing so defanged in my life. I wanna study it in a lab.

Back in the late sixties, my art teacher brought in his portable stereo and played a record that blew me away, it was, “Hooked on Bach.” It was the first time I heard of a MOOG synthesizer — I was hooked from there on. Then came Emerson, Lake and Palmer that took synth music to another level.

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The host of this show looks really sev (seventies.) Even moves like it. Well done.

The In Sound From Way Out and Kaleidoscopic Vibrations by Perrey & Kingsley are outstanding. "Future Pop" made entirely out of spliced together tape (lots of it!). Beasty Boys covered the cover and title.
Capitol Records had a fantastic compilation series in the 90s called Ultra Lounge. Each CD of the 18+ volumes is well worth getting.
They all have amazing cover art and well written liner notes.