| Leaps in technology: oscillators, generators, vacuum tubes, amplifiers, transistors, magnetic tape, integrated circuits, and the microchip—inspired new instruments: the telharmonium, theremin, ondes martenot,electronic sackbut, clavivox, electronium, moog synthesizer, and computers—and artists everywhere hungry for new modes of expression.
This collection is a humble but bold attempt to give form to the wonderful, multi-directional, inevitable birth of electronic music.
Three CDs—42 original music tracks from 1948–1980
112 Page Book—extensive artist interviews, commentaries, and archival photographs
Special Edition DVD—over two hours of rare performances, interviews,animations, and experimental video.
“Many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. Some of it still sounds pretty exotic. These CDs are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities.” —from the Foreword by Brian Eno
"Herein lies the connective tissue bridging musique concrète, 20th-century classical, electronic experimentation, and the theoretical avant-garde to psychedelia, ambient, dub, techno, electro, and synthpop." —Amazon.com
"Early pioneers of electronic music get their due on Ellipsis 'OHM' set." —Billboard
"The whole thing is a scream." —Rolling Stone
It's here and it's great! |
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