Help identify this early electronic music?
August 25, 2023 6:25 AM Subscribe
This busy, vaguely industrial-sounding electronic music in a 1975 TV broadcast is maddeningly familiar - what is it from? A soundtrack? Please help!
The music in question is at 26 seconds - timestamp included in link. Please help! It sounds so familiar, and it may be from a soundtrack. It's not from A Clockwork Orange or The Shining, we checked those first.
The music in question is at 26 seconds - timestamp included in link. Please help! It sounds so familiar, and it may be from a soundtrack. It's not from A Clockwork Orange or The Shining, we checked those first.
It puts me in mind of the Terminator 2 theme, but that's 16 years the wrong way.
posted by Kyol at 6:46 AM on August 25, 2023
posted by Kyol at 6:46 AM on August 25, 2023
It does sound a lot like Wendy Carlos's Timesteps.
This probably originated from some Library or Production music collection, which were notorious for being extremely poorly documented, and often produced locally by musicians at local studios. This is a vast corner of the music industry, or at least was at one point. There are some dedicated forums out there that might be able to assist with an ID.
Like, this could fit in with some Hingross collection pretty easily if you look at it sideways, recorded and played it over a VHS player?
posted by furnace.heart at 7:13 AM on August 25, 2023
This probably originated from some Library or Production music collection, which were notorious for being extremely poorly documented, and often produced locally by musicians at local studios. This is a vast corner of the music industry, or at least was at one point. There are some dedicated forums out there that might be able to assist with an ID.
Like, this could fit in with some Hingross collection pretty easily if you look at it sideways, recorded and played it over a VHS player?
posted by furnace.heart at 7:13 AM on August 25, 2023
Sounds like Tangerine Dream type stuff, they are old enough to have been producing ahead of 1975 so someone could have picked up on their early stuff. They obviously went on to do a lot of soundtracks.
posted by biffa at 7:22 AM on August 25, 2023
posted by biffa at 7:22 AM on August 25, 2023
Best answer: Yep, it's Wendy Carlos, featured on the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange https://vimeo.com/254916343. Section in question starts at about 3:48.
posted by Ms. Toad at 7:41 AM on August 25, 2023 [14 favorites]
posted by Ms. Toad at 7:41 AM on August 25, 2023 [14 favorites]
Sounds like Tangerine Dream type stuff,
It's too speedy and nervous for 1970's Tangerine Dream.
posted by Stoneshop at 9:03 AM on August 25, 2023
It's too speedy and nervous for 1970's Tangerine Dream.
posted by Stoneshop at 9:03 AM on August 25, 2023
Best answer: Yes, this is in Timesteps, somewhere. Note that she released two versions. On the official soundtrack (the one with "I Want To Be A Lighthouse Keeper") it's a nine-minute excerpt; on her personal realization of the soundtrack, Timesteps was longer, almost the whole side of the LP. This is the version Ms. Toad links to. I think the excerpt in the OP's link is in both, and the film as well (it's what's heard while Alex is enduring the Ludvoko Technique).
posted by Rash at 9:08 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Rash at 9:08 AM on August 25, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: This is Wendy Carlos, just to confirm.
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:26 AM on August 25, 2023
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 10:26 AM on August 25, 2023
Best answer: Not the soundtrack album, the album "music from the film " has some music included that isnt on the soundtrack..
posted by hortense at 12:43 PM on August 25, 2023
posted by hortense at 12:43 PM on August 25, 2023
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posted by TheAdamist at 6:45 AM on August 25, 2023