https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFEN4v-NFAY
search: Bizarre Ko.Ko.Ko's 00 Time (1984) — slightly abrasive sequencer-driven stuff with space guitar/mellotron/dark ambient/twiddly subotnickesque interludes (and the occasional meow). it's a good example (along with Zanov's In Course of Time) of ye olde '70s progressive electronick surviving well into the '80s without drawing upon typical '80s stylistic trends or production values
also search Cultural Noise's Aphorisms Insane (1980) even though it's a little more conventional. Bizarre.Ko.Ko.Ko were Cultural Noise minus one member. I can't find much info about them online aside from the fact that they were from Austria
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:12 (two years ago) link
(that youtube video includes both albums: the Cultural Noise one starts at the beginning and the Bizarre Ko.Ko.Ko one starts at around 40:40)
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:15 (two years ago) link
Oh, fortuitous revive. I've recently discovered three early 80s electronic albums by Reinhard Lakomy: Das geheime Leben (1982), Der Traum von Asgard (1983), Zeiten (1985). These are definitely Berlin school but East Berlin as Lakomy was a sort of DDR state-sanctioned Jack-of-all-trades musician/composer who seems to have played in every genre going but was apparently best known for children's music. Anyway, it seems he was friendly with Edgar Froese and was somehow involved in Tangerine Dream's concerts in East Berlin in 1980 and bought TD's giant moog (which had once belonged to Mick Jagger!) off them. Also, it's said Froese wanted him to join TD but Reinhard didn't want to leave East Berlin.
So these three albums are very early 80s Tangerine Dream, with occasional hints of Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis. I had assumed these albums would be like sonic Trabants but they are technically pretty sophisticated, some clunky drum machines on the first album aside, with some great synth sounds (apparently mostly East German or Soviet synths). Third album is mostly digital (I think?). All three are good albums.
― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
I love the Lakomy I've heard, which is just Das Geheime Leben tbh. Discovered him through this great compilation and stumbled upon a copy of DGL shortly after. Lovely stuff. I used "Das Unendliche Rätsel" in a kraut-themed mix recently.
― willem, Monday, 24 January 2022 09:52 (two years ago) link