LES BAXTER CHOPIN Prelude in E Minor MOOG ROCK 1968

[pupthelovemonkey]

Sounds SOoooooooo similar to Radiohead - Exit music (for a film). My god its almost uncanny.

[BusinessButterfly]

uy

[revdoktorcrash]

praze Bob Moog

[rxtuner]

Where did you find all of the Wally Wood illustrations?

[cosmocorps2000]

@rxtuner I googled them some years ago.

[psychodamned]

This is not dated its timeless a bit like Walter/Wendy Carlos Clarks A Clockwork Orange soundtrack. That Retro futuristic soundtrack.

[freedom5370]

superbe!!!!

[cazzo53]

Man!! This is Pimping!! Lovin it..

[politoojete]

¡Exelent Marvelus !

[politoojete]

¡ Exelent , Marbelus!

[ilikeyouallot]

i was so depressed.And then i found synths, they saved my life.i love these space ships, i love a nice future where men are civilized and the best is that they could have COMMON SENSE. War is a thing of primitive societies, poverty doesn't exist any more. wealth? there's no need for a world of sick OBSESSIVE HUMANS. We've been here enough time for us to grow up and change the world, no communism, no dictators, no over population, no capitalism, no democrats. THe planet earth civilized people.

[ilikeyouallot]

ahead! i love this futuristic sci-fi. i always love this world men of science. and mr. les baxter is one of them: a genius.

[psychodamned]

If only Scott walker had have composed lyrics to this. It would have been a more posotive and musically forfilling then the stuff he's doing now. This is simply the work of a genius to marry this tune and this instrument !

[Mtnpox]

this is so satisfying...just wonderful

[sortabli]

I like these pictures

[dementedpianist]

the melody at the beginning needs to be a lot louder... it's totally drowned out by the drum loop

[gaetanomariadigiorgi]

Very sad

[unbanane]

this is win...so win

some of the best music making it to contemporary

[klaus442]

Beautiful.

[anthroslime]

is it just me or is that jane B song?

[watoowatootheband]

Sure - Gainsbourg also used this theme from Chopin & added wonderful lyrics + Jane's sad voice

[stevecool18]

interesting rendition.

i love it!

[abstractduk]

so so very cool..waiting ..at 3am to go home from the office

[Dogsledfan]

Personally, I think analog synths made far better music than the solid state digital stuff nowadays. Having been through electronics techn, I far prefered to work with discrete analog components. I was always playing around making mini analog synths during my studies. Of late, my interests have reverted to the more traditional accoustical instruments. However, sometimes I like to "escape" to the Switched-On era - when Wendy was still Walter Carlos. Now if THAT doesn't give away my age...

[Fant00mRecords]

i think referring to digital synth's as solid state tech is giving away your age :) The digital era will become the new analogue as soon as people quite listening to mp3's and new formats with lesser harsch spikes in the signal becomes the standard. Tape and analogue sound better, but digital sound processing has the future!

[CadillacL]

I was born in '71 so I missed this era of music. In the pass year I've discovered Les Baxter, Esquivel, etc. How can folks not be taken to another world listening to this? Very relaxing.

[michio]

WOW..this is like cake with extra vanilla frosting to the max!

What sci-fi comic is that from?

I'm in love with it~

[cosmocorps2000]

Thanks the comments. The first pic is from the comic to the series UFO (as posted by themachinestops). All others are various images from the great Wally Wood.

[trylonperisphere]

The Wally Wood stuff is mainly from his interior illustrations for Galaxy sci-fi novels. Many are collected in the book Wallace Wood's Wayout (Pure Imagination).

[vividwatch47]

R.I.P. Wallace Wood and Les Baxter.

[scwt89]

R.I.P. Fredric Chopin

[beerdeddi]

This is the amazingst thig i ever heard.....

[themachinestops]

The first image looks like Harlington Straker studios from UFO (Gerry and Sylvia Anderson)

[turner789]

Whoa! That is cool. I love the images you put together to go with the music.

[Anto1]

Same here. Really fitting.

[ajdicks]

this is not really cheesy...you just have to let your mind drift away

[chets808]

agreed. the cheesy moniker only came after the evolution of synths and music. at the time, this was not cheesy...taken in context its unique and interesting but far from cheeseball.

[Jtronique]

Nice vid, where is the art from exactly? Very evocative. Thanks.

[BoogieBalo]

this is the most amazing thing i've ever listened here...

[antid3ity]

This was pretty cool, and I loved the images that went with it! Awesome = )

[CriticulMuzical]

superb

[Rango9]

This is perfect. Just perfect.

[joeocho88]

POOP people of Paris indeed.

This is Moog at it most primitive...

And it rather interesting as a footnote of musical history.

[beerdeddi]

This is insane, if Chopin could hear it!!!

[nyggis]

It´s addictive! Great flow!

[ressuvhio]

Awesome song... I can listen to this all the time... ;D

[sonofdamocles]

Adam Parfrey used this song in the back of his spoken word track "Race Riot".

[Dogsledfan]

Analog synths beat any of this digital crap today and I'm old enough to remember the original stuff! BTW, I have BOTH a musical AND electronics background so I have SOME idea what I'm talking about. 90% commercial stuff for jerks it about right - maybe the percentage is higher? Another thing, "Poor People of Paris" was NOT something in which Les Baxter took much pride; his BEST music is to be found in his numerous concept albums which sound much like Debussy, Stavinsky, and Ravel.

[joeocho88]

It sounds so dated considering the technology we have now.

Poor People of Paris might have been les baxter not this guy..

[cosmocorps2000]

Yes it's dated. But in the 60's there was no Midi, Synch, etc. only modular synths with patchcords. So it takes hours/weeks of work to make electronic music. Today we have technology, which they never dreamed, and what's the result? 90% commercial music for jerks and 10% who wants the perfect imitation of analogue synths to make a poor imitation of the past. A bit confusing!

[davesharon5747]

Was hoping to find Poop People of Paris.