Wicked trippy music from the 60s, definitely different, electronic hard to describe, must hear it for yourself, now I want ALL the stuff by them I can find. Reminds me a TEENY bit of Deep Purple yet this is not rock.
Thank You for Posting this!! I haven't heard this in 33 years and I would wear this tune out when I was kid!! I sort of remember the liner notes: Dick used a Rhythm Ace and pushed the bossa nova and waltz buttons simultaneously to get that very hip drum pattern.
Very cool album. I'm still looking for the original single version. Same thing, just shorter. if nothing else so i can get a reference to make an edit from the CD.
Cool album in any case. Oh, and it was released in 1969. Cheers!
Dick Hyman fans, you're invited to a live master class with Dick Hyman and Dave Frank about Dick's music and career. Includes 2 new great solo performances by Dick, loads of interesting conversation and 2 *burnin* duets by Dick and Dave. Type in "Dave Frank" Dick Hyman in Youtube.You will enjoy this!!
This had to have been recorded in 1969. I heard it 3 years ago on Lane Quigley's Memory Lane shoe on the Live 365 station "Rockin Radio" and he quote 69 as the year.
Who would of thought it was that long ago.
Don't usually like synthesized stuff but this one I do.
I'm from Cleveland and I loved this jam!!! WOW! I was about 12 years old at the time. My brother actually had a recording of thison reel to reel, in Va when he returned from Vietnam. I was quite surprised that we had the same taste because he was about 10 years older than me.
A btw here, someone with a better memory might correct me, but like many a disk released over the years, this one was sent out to all kinds of radio stations. It so happened that a DJ at a soul station in Cleveland or Cincinnatti Ohio USA gave this a listen and liked "The Minotaur" and played it a couple of times. His listeners kept calling the station asking what that crazy new song was and would you please play it again? I believe that I read this in an interview with Dick Hyman.
What would grad school have been without reading abstract literary theories with spaced out music like this to keep me floating in my isolation chamber!
@harpsinth I just bought a 1961 Command album today for 50 cents, fairly good condition. These were the most expensive albums of their day, glossy gatefold albums, more tech specs listed than you can shake a stick at! For DEVOTED audiophiles! I searched 'Command' & found a discography of their ENTIRE catalog, which will show in a separate box/message, for those who may want to seek out the other tracks from this album.
@harpsinth The Command label was founded in 1959 by Enoch Light, one of the supreme technos of his day, to promote the 'new' stereo sound. Here's the complete data for the Command album this track is from:
RS 938 SD - Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman - Dick Hyman [1969] The Topless Dancers of Corfu/The Legend of Johnny Pot/The Moog and Me/Tap Dance In the Memory Banks/Four Duets In Odd Meter //The Minotaur/Total Bells and Tony/Improvisation In Fourths/Evening Thoughts
@chkjns ... excellent album! I bought this in the early 70s followed by Claude Denjean, Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Walter (Wendy) Carlos, TOMITA, Tangerine Dream ... the list goes on and the progression of synth/electronic music branched out in so many directions. Amazing. I love it. Thanks for the info of one of the Fathers of this type of sound.
@chkjns ... you bet I will! Also - the PHASE 4 (London) label series is also made of solid vinyl. It's one of the most thickest and "heaviest" LPs that I ever handled.
@MrChristian326 Perhaps it needed to be thick to carry those 20 channels of sound? If I'm not mistaken, Phase4 was the UK equal of the Command label. Some young lady in South American has uploaded a STACK of Phase4s - wonder how a teen got ahold of such great audiophile vinyl? I recently got a gatefold David Rose 21 channel sound album for 50 cents, circa 1966. It gave the whole layout of the orchestra, how the miokes were staged and which mikes did which instrument. Amazing history !!! chuck
ringo1308 you are incorrect "The Minotaur" was not an influence on Keith Emerson when he wrote "Tarkus". At the time that Emerson composed "Tarkus" he was heavily influenced by Alberto Ginestera. After hearing Ginestera 1st Piano Concerto Emerson wanted to compose an "Atonally" piece of music. "Tarkus" was the piece Emerson composed. Emerson did use Dick Hyman's "Minotaur" during the live "Aquatarkus" portion of "Tarkus" which can be heard on the"Welcome Back My Friends" live album by "ELP".
I walked out of my room right when this started playing, and walked back in at 8:00, forgetting that I had left it on, and I thought that sound was my wonky external hard drive about to explode.
I'm quite surprised that some enterprising little 90's electronica label like Astralwerks(Home to the likes of Fat Boy Slim, Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers among others) didn't lease the rights to the masters on this album and put out a bitchin' reissue, given how prominently sampled this record was back in the golden age of Electronica. I'd LOVE to see a deluxe 180-gram vinyl re-issue of this, since my Command Original is about worn the hell out!
Would you believe The Minotaur was on the Top 40 in Alabama in 1969? I was in high school and my parents barely tolerated the psychedelic rock I played at ridiculous levels; they didn't know what to think of this (I still have the album, and it's still playable).
I would be most appreciative if you could also upload The Topless Dancers of Corfu.
I first heard a Moog when i heard the shorter 45 version as played on some am radio stations in 68'..It is still my all time favorite pure Big Moog instrumental....After all these decades in this age of fancy digital synths it stil rules with its power glides and air of mystery..A pity that in the 70's as Dick Hyman has said, when he wore out his MiniMoog touring with it he abandoned synths entirelly and returned to mere jazz piano performing to this day.
The Minotaur! -- first heard it in the 1970's when I was in my teens. Electronic music was new back then, and my friends and I would smoke weed, crank up the volume and bug out on it. Thanks for the memories.
amazing, that i should hear thisagain after 40 yeears-i remember when my older brother brought it home on a 45; another musical epiphany for this (then)13 year old,
Thank you, plain and simple
islandwatermon 1 day ago
I had the 7" single & was amazed that it was 7:30 (longer than MacArthur Park or Hey Jude)
davidwalach 2 weeks ago
This track was first introduced to me by my bass player Roy Williams when we played for the band Pamoja
daestrem 2 weeks ago
Wicked trippy music from the 60s, definitely different, electronic hard to describe, must hear it for yourself, now I want ALL the stuff by them I can find. Reminds me a TEENY bit of Deep Purple yet this is not rock.
gmj2012 1 month ago
Thank You for Posting this!! I haven't heard this in 33 years and I would wear this tune out when I was kid!! I sort of remember the liner notes: Dick used a Rhythm Ace and pushed the bossa nova and waltz buttons simultaneously to get that very hip drum pattern.
LOKJazz 1 month ago
WOW
sacrificialtotem 3 months ago
Sounds exactly like Emerson's "Lucky Man" patch. Also, the phrasing is quite similar. I understand Hyman was one of Emerson's biggest influences.
if I didn't know better, I would have sworn this was KE. Great synth sounds.
fooloof 4 months ago
@fooloof Emo quotes the Mintotaur during his Moog solo on Tarkus on Welcome Back My Friends...etc.
mburgh 1 month ago
my 4 year old son walked in while this was playing and I asked "what does it sound like?"
his answer: "a Minimoog"!
This sounds like a Modular, but we don't have one of those in the house...all he knows is the Mini :)
fooloof 4 months ago
I had this album in seventh grade! So cool to hear it!!!
Catfurniture 4 months ago
The best part is hearing the caps in the VCOs trying to keep up. Makes it that much better.
jimBobuu 6 months ago
I didn't get it at 15, but I do now. Thanks for posting.
thewalruswasrichard 7 months ago in playlist Barry Gray
Very cool album. I'm still looking for the original single version. Same thing, just shorter. if nothing else so i can get a reference to make an edit from the CD.
Cool album in any case. Oh, and it was released in 1969. Cheers!
stratocat9999 7 months ago
What No Stereo ?
MrMotownmanny 7 months ago
1969
cfhendl 8 months ago
The flip side, "Topless Dancers of Corfu" was pretty cool too!
jazflt 8 months ago
@jazflt No doubt!
jamesmen1 5 months ago in playlist varlalik work
hey, there's a lot of acquatarkus licks inside!!! :-)
EnricoCosimi 8 months ago
Dick Hyman fans, you're invited to a live master class with Dick Hyman and Dave Frank about Dick's music and career. Includes 2 new great solo performances by Dick, loads of interesting conversation and 2 *burnin* duets by Dick and Dave. Type in "Dave Frank" Dick Hyman in Youtube.You will enjoy this!!
Dfrankjazz 10 months ago
This was the closing theme of "Wide World Of Sports" for a time in the 70s.
top40lives 10 months ago
I have this album. Black Bird is another good cut. johnos159able
johnny159able 10 months ago
Been looking for this forever; thanks for posting.
seeker1114 10 months ago
Dick was always on the pulse and sometimes was the pulse.
clyderae11 10 months ago
This had to have been recorded in 1969. I heard it 3 years ago on Lane Quigley's Memory Lane shoe on the Live 365 station "Rockin Radio" and he quote 69 as the year.
Who would of thought it was that long ago.
Don't usually like synthesized stuff but this one I do.
MIKECNW 10 months ago
@PANDOSING I recognized certain keyboard riffs from "Fanfare for the Common Man."
HarvestmanMan 1 year ago
I'm from Cleveland and I loved this jam!!! WOW! I was about 12 years old at the time. My brother actually had a recording of thison reel to reel, in Va when he returned from Vietnam. I was quite surprised that we had the same taste because he was about 10 years older than me.
Melaiyah1210 1 year ago
A btw here, someone with a better memory might correct me, but like many a disk released over the years, this one was sent out to all kinds of radio stations. It so happened that a DJ at a soul station in Cleveland or Cincinnatti Ohio USA gave this a listen and liked "The Minotaur" and played it a couple of times. His listeners kept calling the station asking what that crazy new song was and would you please play it again? I believe that I read this in an interview with Dick Hyman.
OutlandsCommunity 1 year ago
Thanks, man! Many's the night I spent tripping to this!
OutlandsCommunity 1 year ago
Jazz techno - invented 1969! Who'd have thought.
adbanno 1 year ago 2
What would grad school have been without reading abstract literary theories with spaced out music like this to keep me floating in my isolation chamber!
pmfnr 1 year ago
i should cover this on my electric guitar!!
Sunutobi 1 year ago
I had this in vinil and it sounds so gorgeus ! I think the year of release was 1969 !
(what a year...) Thank you for sharing this odd jewel ...
harpsinth 1 year ago
@harpsinth I just bought a 1961 Command album today for 50 cents, fairly good condition. These were the most expensive albums of their day, glossy gatefold albums, more tech specs listed than you can shake a stick at! For DEVOTED audiophiles! I searched 'Command' & found a discography of their ENTIRE catalog, which will show in a separate box/message, for those who may want to seek out the other tracks from this album.
chkjns 11 months ago
@harpsinth The Command label was founded in 1959 by Enoch Light, one of the supreme technos of his day, to promote the 'new' stereo sound. Here's the complete data for the Command album this track is from:
RS 938 SD - Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman - Dick Hyman [1969] The Topless Dancers of Corfu/The Legend of Johnny Pot/The Moog and Me/Tap Dance In the Memory Banks/Four Duets In Odd Meter //The Minotaur/Total Bells and Tony/Improvisation In Fourths/Evening Thoughts
chkjns 11 months ago
@chkjns
hi,Chuck.
its just moog sounds! reminds me "Emerson, Lake & Palmer":)
i know this is the synthesizer of first generation called "analog synthesizer",before YAMAHA DX7 released.
it could make only the monophonic sound... right?
i've touched the moog so far, and remember it difficult to make sound.lol
thanks Chuck for sending this.
SwingStreetCafe 11 months ago
@chkjns ... excellent album! I bought this in the early 70s followed by Claude Denjean, Gershon Kingsley, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Walter (Wendy) Carlos, TOMITA, Tangerine Dream ... the list goes on and the progression of synth/electronic music branched out in so many directions. Amazing. I love it. Thanks for the info of one of the Fathers of this type of sound.
MrChristian326 9 months ago
@MrChristian326 You're welcome. So, if you see any old vinyl for sale from the Command label, you'll know it's optimum sound quality. Buy it!
chkjns 9 months ago
@chkjns ... you bet I will! Also - the PHASE 4 (London) label series is also made of solid vinyl. It's one of the most thickest and "heaviest" LPs that I ever handled.
MrChristian326 9 months ago
@MrChristian326 Perhaps it needed to be thick to carry those 20 channels of sound? If I'm not mistaken, Phase4 was the UK equal of the Command label. Some young lady in South American has uploaded a STACK of Phase4s - wonder how a teen got ahold of such great audiophile vinyl? I recently got a gatefold David Rose 21 channel sound album for 50 cents, circa 1966. It gave the whole layout of the orchestra, how the miokes were staged and which mikes did which instrument. Amazing history !!! chuck
chkjns 9 months ago
please, pardon my immaturity but HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DICK HYMAN!
max269 1 year ago
@max269 Even Wikipedia mentions that "funny detail" about his name...
yusbarrett 1 year ago
@yusbarrett well, nobody had commented anything related to that on this video, so i felt the need to light up the mood a little :P
max269 1 year ago
ringo1308 you are incorrect "The Minotaur" was not an influence on Keith Emerson when he wrote "Tarkus". At the time that Emerson composed "Tarkus" he was heavily influenced by Alberto Ginestera. After hearing Ginestera 1st Piano Concerto Emerson wanted to compose an "Atonally" piece of music. "Tarkus" was the piece Emerson composed. Emerson did use Dick Hyman's "Minotaur" during the live "Aquatarkus" portion of "Tarkus" which can be heard on the"Welcome Back My Friends" live album by "ELP".
PANDOSING 1 year ago
@PANDOSING
that´s correct ! congratulations for your historic accuracy !
harpsinth 1 year ago
Fantastic, this was a very strong influence on Keith Emerson when he wrote "Tarkus"
ringo1308 1 year ago
1968
Fugix 1 year ago
2:09 is bliss
operadood 1 year ago
been listening to a vinyl copy of this record that i stole from my parents, very cool.
alramone1 1 year ago
I walked out of my room right when this started playing, and walked back in at 8:00, forgetting that I had left it on, and I thought that sound was my wonky external hard drive about to explode.
BradTheProducer 1 year ago
I'm quite surprised that some enterprising little 90's electronica label like Astralwerks(Home to the likes of Fat Boy Slim, Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers among others) didn't lease the rights to the masters on this album and put out a bitchin' reissue, given how prominently sampled this record was back in the golden age of Electronica. I'd LOVE to see a deluxe 180-gram vinyl re-issue of this, since my Command Original is about worn the hell out!
Rockstaralan 1 year ago
I had this album when I was 12, and heard this track on AM 1600 KATZ (St. Louis, MO). Hyman mad three recordings with his Moog. All were great.
See if you can find "Magic People' and 'Windmills Of your Mind'.
SuperCartiel 1 year ago
Would you believe The Minotaur was on the Top 40 in Alabama in 1969? I was in high school and my parents barely tolerated the psychedelic rock I played at ridiculous levels; they didn't know what to think of this (I still have the album, and it's still playable).
I would be most appreciative if you could also upload The Topless Dancers of Corfu.
originaljgf 1 year ago
Yeah man, it's awesome!..Any chance you can upload his version of Blackbird, by The Beatles?
TheMiguelinho52 1 year ago
awsome! thanks for putting this up, can you plz upload kolumbo if possible?
foxunit89 1 year ago
How cool to find this here!! Thanks for taking the time to put it up.
peace and long life
cyyyggnus 1 year ago
a classic futuristic composition with all the urgency of an air raid siren and masterful keyboard technique
grikney 1 year ago
thanks for posting. emerson quotes this theme in the live version of aquatarkus on "welcome back..."
gleonard9 1 year ago
Hot Stuff. It reminds me of my teens & such Heroes as Keith Emerson & Rick Wakeman back in the 70's. Top Upload.
A Fiver & Faver.....Click.....Click
arealbladeofgrass 1 year ago
I love this! Can you post "Alfie" from this album?
cartoonfan1920s 1 year ago
Absolute 100% pure time tripping art. Listening to this again after so many years... it's like an elixir of youth. Takk, AceWaxCollectors.
xearther 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Still got the vinyl
had it since the 70's
awesome tracks!!
Removed and reposted due to drunken spelling errors :)
livingdeadbtu 2 years ago
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livingdeadbtu 2 years ago
thanks sor much for this
I first heard a Moog when i heard the shorter 45 version as played on some am radio stations in 68'..It is still my all time favorite pure Big Moog instrumental....After all these decades in this age of fancy digital synths it stil rules with its power glides and air of mystery..A pity that in the 70's as Dick Hyman has said, when he wore out his MiniMoog touring with it he abandoned synths entirelly and returned to mere jazz piano performing to this day.
tripacer66 2 years ago
The Minotaur! -- first heard it in the 1970's when I was in my teens. Electronic music was new back then, and my friends and I would smoke weed, crank up the volume and bug out on it. Thanks for the memories.
caddyjoint96 2 years ago
EEK! This may be the Anti-Life Equation!
nacireman2009 2 years ago
Fantastic! I was turned on 2 this in 1987 or 1988 in Catholic school. Full circle now Crogsdad. UNREAL! MOOG!!!!!!!!!
MrGreenius 2 years ago
amazing, that i should hear thisagain after 40 yeears-i remember when my older brother brought it home on a 45; another musical epiphany for this (then)13 year old,
Honeychil2 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this!
tangledupinbloo 2 years ago
Yeah he gets down.
Check out Keyboard Kaleidoscope next time you're looking for Dick Hyman.
ra327 2 years ago