Music that is spookily ahead of its time

Anne Joyal - Eveil (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmxGNZ3MBh8

add some more reverb and this could almost be an outtake from the Cocteau Twins' Victorialand

Wow, that Anne Joyal track is gorgeous.

Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem - "Patriarcat" (1977)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-oyVndrmfw

Robotic feminist synth funk, well ahead of its time

And I always thought this Siouxsie track held a heavy influence on early-2000s to now types of electropop (could have readily been covered by Adult or The Knife, etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCfc0TqN_c

And yeah, that Fontaine/Areski track is a standout.

A couple classics for interpolation/sampling in a more or less "pop" context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2_1Jfgo4I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAu1wBYuCJQ

That Anne Joyal needs a reissue--seems like maybe something Lion or Drag City could pick up, or Light in the Attic.

The Fontaine/Areski track pairs in my mind with the Emmanuelle Parrenin track "Topaze," which sounds nothing like the rest of the album it's from either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLeAqReD2XI

I posted this to the other thread, but it fits here too... Some Finnish IDM from 1968:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPopMt6Zh0

i had never seen this IHOP commercial until today.

http://goodness.greatergood.com/ihop-ad-1969/

that is some next level stuff.

Okay so this isn't that far ahead in time, but I've often wondered what inspired Kid Rock to use autotune for Only God Knows Why given that Cher's Believe wouldn't be released till several months after this album. Was he just trying to go for Peter Frampton type sound? Is this even using autotune?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DQup4hd1_o

I'm gonna have that weird IHOP song stuck I'm my head all day now.

Not kidding-- but I actually think "Cotton Eyed Joe" by Rednex was ahead of its time, and would have been an even more massive hit now.

But Rednex didn't even start the "country + Eurodance" mini fad of the mid-90s! The Grid was the first, and 2 Cowboys' Everybody Gonfi Gon preceded "Cotton Eye Joe" too. Rednex were just following a trend.

I don't agree that it sounds ahead of its time but eurodans+country should definitely make a slight modern comeback.

I think "Timber" kinda filled that gap

What's that late 70s/early 80s disco record that sounds like microhouse

Kikrokos - life is a jungle? (6 min in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x0d8nJlEnw

it's funny how so many commenters on that IHOP commercial insist that it sounds weirder than they remember and that there must be something wrong with the playback, as if they're not willing to admit that they were exposed to such crazy shit when they were growing up. imho it sounds very much of its time (in a goofy Raymond Scott/Perry-Kingsley vein) but it would fit right in on a Focus Group album

Holger Hiller's sampling experiments predate glitch pop by a solid decade. As Is (my fave of his) still sounds visionary, it could've been issued by Morr Music in the early aughts and nobody would have blinked

This angry calypso/jazz/punk number from Harry Belafonte in 'Odds Against Tomorrow' (1959)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFd3u8mCb_U

Sorry, that's the wrong clip, and can't find the right one.

This Mannfred Mann song is the title track from their 1966 EP where it already sounded futuristic. But theremin band Lothar and the Hand People took it to a new level two years later - From the clashing machinery keeping the beat to the detached deadpan vocals to the dissonant guitars and synths, this could easily have been the work of Gary Numan or any of his early-80s new-wave synth pop disciples, or even current-millenium acts like, say, Modest Mouse. But this was released way back in 1968!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDUFaRiUwsk

oh wow, I get a big Albert Marceour/Zolo vibe from that