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Sin Agog

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Edited Feb 13, 2012, 01:21

Songs That Were Ahead of Their Time

Feb 13, 2012, 01:09

Oops, accidentally started a thread when I meant to reply to a post. Goddamn weed. Let me try and turn this into a real thread while I'm here...

Three minutes later.

In the same way some people say Leonardo da Vinci glimpsed the future and wrote down his impressions of all the things he saw, I want to hear tracks which were decades ahead of their time... Or maybe we still haven't caught up with them yet.

I nominate a cut by French folkster, Emmanuelle Parrenin. She's pretty good, but there's one track of hers that sounds as ahead of its time as This Heat's 24 Track Loop. It's got this Trip-Hoppy drumbeat I could listen to for hours with tons of little warped effects over it. Seriously cool song: Topaze

Also there are two Syd Barrety songs on the soundtrack to Kenneth Anger's Puce Moment by a guy called Jonathan Halper that seem to predict quite a few movements in the ensuing decades. Being all gauzy and gorgeous doesn't hurt either: Leaving My Old Life Behind/I Am A Hermit. From 1966 I believe, or maybe even earlier.

Plus Karlheinzbakedbeans Stockhausen's Kontakte and its occasional almost Space Rockisms.

The Velvets' After Hours seemed to predict a thousand cardigan-wearing effete Twee Pop bands.

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Songs That Were Ahead of Their Time – Sin Agog, Feb 13, 2012, 01:09


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