The School of Electronic Music

Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at Jon Hassell’s little-known tape music piece from 1968 along with a more recent album which is fetching big money on the secondhand market

Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at obscure film music by Russian composer, Vladimir Ussachevsky

Resident archivist Jack Dangers revisits a 1975 album by Italian composer Vittoria Gelmetti

Resident archivist Jack Dangers looks at two avant-garde electronic music albums from Sweden by Knut Wiggen and Kåre Kolberg

Resident archivist Jack Dangers shines a light on a lavish release of an important piece of experimental music by Marino Zuccheri, the in-house engineer at the Studio di Fonologia Musicale in Milan

This month, our resident archivist digs out a ridiculously scarce record by Ernest Berk, whose london-based electronic music studio is all but forgotten

Resident archivist Jack Dangers digs out Australian avant-garde experimentalists Laughing Hands and their something album ‘Dog Photos’.

Back in the 70s, in the search for alternative interfaces to control sound, the likes of Pierre Henry, Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros and David Rosenboom all tried to tap into brain power. The resulting brainwave music albums were noisy, weird and fascinating…

Our resident archivist has been listening to voices from the other side, caught by researchers of “Electronic Voice Phenomena”, or EVP, and first committed to vinyl in 1971

The four-lp boxset ‘Electronic Music’ by Phillip Werren was originally released in an edition of just 100, and made the news recently when a copy sold for over £2,000