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CASSETTE SPECIAL

Essential Trip Music Reviews

A great source for forgotten new age ambient etc. synthesizer music is
soundsofthedawn.net Tons of cassettes have been digitized in mp3 format and the
inlays scanned too. Here are some life changing treasures you can dig up there:

Fred Whackenhut - Orianna Twilight *****
A forgotten ambient jazz classic on the beyond ultra cult MU-PSYCH label
On side A its mostly romantic filmic piano mixed with dark synthesizer tones.
I guess its nice to listen to if you are taking a bath or something.
But its the B-Side where things go mental with a more deeper melancholic
trippy vibe. Somewhere in the middle (the tracks are all untitled) around
10 minutes, things expand into ascension with vaporous accidentals of incredible
portamento'd solosynthesizer. Can't stop listening to this.

Pauline Anna Strom - Trans-Millenia Consort *******
Mesmerizing harmonic album from blind bay area synthesist Pauline Anna Strom.
Released in 1982 it ventures lightyears away from anything you might have heard
at that time. There is something very special about this music, unknown emotions
bubble up with an enorumous vibe of an etheral sacredness. Apparently played on
a Sequential Prophet 10 synthesizer.

Emerald Web - Valley of the Birds *****
"Visonary music on flutes and synthesizers"...Dark RPG folksynth made around
1981 by husband-and-wife music group Emerald Web.
According to the new age music encyclopedia they perfomed in planetariums,
made music for Carl Sagan's COSMOS series and did a lot of other TV soundtrack
work.

Contstance Demby - At Alaron ******
1983 harp gepingel with some unsettling stunning synthesizer parts.
As expected by the title a lot of the tracks are very Arthurian. But its all in
a very consenting luring minimalistic way and going towards a lot of different
places. Like Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works II with a touch of Autechre with
a milli-gram of Doris Norton, sometimes even touching a NICO-esque mood.