Spectrum - Forever Alien (1997)

Side project of Peter Kember (of Spacemen 3), electronic music experimentation in the vein of BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

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Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.2 (2000)

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Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol.1 (1999)

After Psychic TV, it seems to be the right time to present Coil.

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Psychic TV - Dreams Less Sweet (1983)

Always is always in the nursery of Medmenham, white nights under a black moon, and clouds without water; picking silver and gold orchids in Eden with an iron glove.

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Akira Rabelais - Spellewauerynsherde (2004)

he music on spellewauerynsherde is as unusual as its title which, redefined, reads ‘spell.wavering.shard.’―‘spell’ alluding to the effect cast by its hypnotic incantatory voices, ‘wavering’ their shivering quality once filtered through Rabelais’ Argeïphontes Lyre software and ‘shard’ their fragmentary character. After Rabelais discovered forgotten tape recordings of traditional Icelandic a cappella singing, he found himself so transfixed by the female voices’ heartbreaking sound that he decided to digitally weave them into pulsating drones. By exhuming these phantom, siren-like voices and digitally reconfiguring them, Rabelais’ haunting recording straddles medieval and modern eras. Don’t think that he smothers the remnants with distracting treatments, though. His approach is far subtler; in some cases, voices seemingly stand unadorned of any added embellishment. (source)

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John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (1968)

Tape loops, sound experimentation and whatnot.

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Scott Walker - The Drift (2006)

«A moving aria for a vanishing style of mind.
A noble debut tackling vertiginous demands.
Has absence ever sounded so eloquent, so sad, I doubt it?»

—Lyrics to the first track, Cossacks Are

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Nurse With Wound - A Sucked Orange (1990)

«Introduction to the Music of Nurse With Wound» sort of album, blending elements of early electronic music, ambient, noise, industrial and musiqué concrete; it might be considered as one of the most important efforts of Nurse With Wound.

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