TODD RUNDGREN MANIPURA - SEAT OF FIRE WITH BACKING TRACK

"MANIPURA-SEAT OF FIRE" FROM "A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE", FROM TODD RUNDGREN'S 1975 LP "INITIATION" ONE OF TODD'S MOST EXPERIMENTAL TUNES, WAS RECORDED AT BEARSVILLE STUDIO AND TODD'S SECRET SOUND STUDIO WITH HELP FROM SYNTHESIZER WIZ ROGER POWELL IN THE SUMMER OF 1974. COMPRISED MOSTLY OF TAPE LOOPS AND PATCHES EDITED TOGETHER TO MAKE INDIVIDUAL MUSICIAL SEGMENTS THIS IS TRULY THE ROOTS OF TECHNO MUSIC. RECORDED MOSTLY ON MOOG AND ARP SYNTHESIZERS. THE BACKING TRACKS ARE FROM REELS THAT WERE FOUND IN BEARSVILLE STUDIOS TAPE VAULT BY TODD WHEN HE VISITED THE STUDIO IN 1998.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• TODD
• RUNDGREN
• ROGER
• POWELL
• SYNTHESIZER
• BEARSVILLE
• MOOG
• ARP
• TREATISE
• ON
• COSMIC
• FIRE
• MANIPURA

[notfragile33]

This was really  nice to listen to on LSD: I could imagine I was attacked by hammers, exploding alarm clocks, and atomic popcorn makers! This went beyond where "Interstellar Overdrive" and "In A Gadda Da Vida" didn't go!

[JonP1961]

anyone can screw around with the latest technology available. ok, well, back then not anyone ;).... anyways, he understood how to apply music elements. the first 20 secs of this are some the best use of harmony i've ever heard put out on a synth.

[TJSlipperman]

Awesome technical/experimental piece here =) if only there were more of today's artists talented enough to pull off playing something like this...

[chuckbeattyo]

Genius percussionistic composition

[A2theD1]

reminds me of philip glass

[therealdonm]

Pick your favorite few seconds and make a ringtone ! Share some Todd with the world !

[mark374]

please mojorisen post the whole b-side of this excellent lp if you can

[peterbelelius]

always loved this, always will, the best of organics, better !

[mike584]

...what...the...fuck..........­..???

[sonictimbo]

Just genius! Haven't heard this in a while - it was my companion going to college on the bus for about a year on and off. Thanks for the backing track sections too - really interesting. They should teach Todd in music colleges!