I Hear A New World/The Pioneers Of Electronic Music: Boxset

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In 1960, Joe Meek -- already thinking in terms that couldn't be constrained by the limits of the day's technologies and marketing strategies -- devised a "concept LP" of sorts that speculated about the nature of life on the moon (this was almost ten years before Apollo 11). Working with a group of musicians he dubbed the Blue Men, this "outer space music fantasy" tried to conjure the mood of the cosmos with the clavioline, a Hawaiian guitar, a rinky-dink piano, and then-futuristic electronic noises and sound effects. Listening today, the largely instrumental work sounds futuristic in a very dated way, especially the Chipmunks-like, electronically sped-up voices that were meant to simulate those little green men. As Monty Python's Flying Circus would say, it all sounds a bit silly, but it's an interesting insight into his unique production techniques -- the sounds he sculpted for "Magnetic Field," for instance, are a clear forerunner of the electronic pulses that open and close "Telstar." Only four tracks from the opus were released at the time, on a super-rare EP; 30 years later, the RPM CD I Hear a New World presented the full work to the public for the first time. The 2001 RPM "Special Edition" release of I Hear a New World adds a 35-minute spoken monologue from 1962 in which Meek talks about his life, career, recording equipment, and production/working methods. The fidelity is hissy and scratchy (although quite comprehensible) and it gets dull as Meek takes a detailed tour of his studio sans visuals, but if you're enough of a Meek fan to seek out I Hear a New World in the first place, it's likely you'll find this a significant bonus. There's also an enhanced CD track with a three-minute 1964 TV interview clip of Meek, though it's playable only on PCs, not Macs. ~ Richie Unterberger

【DISC ONE】
THE RPM RESTORATION (1991):
1. I HEAR A NEW WORLD
2. ORBIT AROUND THE MOON
3. ENTRY OF THE GLOBBOTS
4. THE BUBLIGHT
5. MARCH OF THE DRIBCOTS
6. LOVE DANCE OF THE SAROOS
7. GLOB WATERFALL
8. MAGNETIC FIELD
9. VALLEY OF THE SAROOS
10. DRIBCOTS SPACE BOAT
11. DISC DANCE OF THE GLOBBOTS
12. VALLEY OF NO RETURN

THE ORIGINAL UNRELEASED ALBUM (1960):
13. I HEAR A NEW WORLD
14. GLOB WATERFALL
15. ENTRY OF THE GLOBBOTS
16. VALLEY OF THE SAROOS
17. MAGNETIC FIELD
18. ORBIT AROUND THE MOON
19. THE BUBLIGHT
20. MARCH OF THE DRIBCOTS
21. LOVE DANCE OF THE SAROOS
22. DRIBCOTS SPACE BOAT
23. DISC DANCE OF THE GLOBBOTS
24. VALLEY OF NO RETURN
BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP:
25. AMPHITRYON 38 / Daphne Oram
26. THE ARTIST SPEAKS / Phil Young
27. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY / Phil Young And Maddalena Fagandini
28. INTERVAL SIGNAL / Maddalena Fagandini
29. TIME BEAT / Maddalena Fagandini
30. IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION / Maddalena Fagandini
31. THE CHEM LAB MYSTERY / Maddalena Fagandini
32. TIME ON OUR HANDS (TITLES AND CITY MUSIC) / Delia Derbyshire
33. ARABIC SCIENCE AND HISTORY / Delia Derbyshire
34. TIME BEAT / Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini / George Martin)
35. WALTZ IN ORBIT / Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini / George Martin)

【DISC TWO】
1. DRIPSODY (AN ETUDE FOR VARIABLE SPEED RECORDER) / Hugh Le Caine
2. SYNCOPATION (ORBIT AURORA) / Tom Dissevelt
3. WHIRLING (SONIC RE/ENTRY) / Tom Dissevelt
4. DRIFTING (MOON MAID) / Tom Dissevelt
5. FANTASY IN SPACE / Otto Luening
6. PIECE FOR TAPE RECORDER / Vladimir Ussachevsky

PIERRE BOULEZ
DEUX ETUDES DE MUSIQUE CONCRETE FOR MAGNETIC TAPE
7. ETUDE 1 SUR UN SON
8. ETUDE 2 SUR UN ACCORD DE SEPT SONS
9. TIMBRES DUREES / Olivier Messiaen
10. SOUND IN UNLIMITED SPACE / Herbert Eimert & Robert Beyer
11. STUDIE NR.1 / Karlheinz Stockhausen
12. LA RIVIERE ENDORMIE / Darius Milhaud
13. INTERPOLATION 1 FROM DESERTS / Edgard Varese
14. SPIRALE / Pierre Henry
15. ETUDE AUX SONS ANIMES / Pierre Schaeffer

【DISC THREE】
1. POEME ELECTRONIQUE / Edgard Varese
2. SCAMBI / Henri Pousseuri
3. MUSICA SU DUE DIMENSIONI "DIMENSIONI NO. 1" (VERSION FOR FLUTE AND TAPE) / Bruno Maderna
4. FONTANA MIX / John Cage
5. ARTIKULATION FOR TAPE / Gyorgy Ligeti

VISAGE V / Luc Ferrari:
6. PART ONE
7. PART TWO
8. PART THREE

9. ORIENT OCCIDENT LA PRISONNIERE / Iannis Xenakis
10. MOMENTI, FOR MAGNETIC TAPE / Luciano Berio
11. VISAGES (EXCERPT) / Luciano Berio
12. THE INNOCENTS / SAVAGE NOISES (EXCERPT) / Daphne Oram
13. RHYTHMIC VARIATION 1 FROM ELECTRONIC SOUND PATTERNS / Daphne Oram