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From: LarryC@cup.portal.com (Larry WB Ching)
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Subject: RE: Theatre of the Mind Soundtracks
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Date: 20 Oct 91 03:10:23 GMT
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From LarryC@cup.portal.com     (San Jose,CA)
[posted to rec.music.misc, rec.music.newage, rec.music.synth, alt.drugs]

 A while ago I wrote:

>  I want some recommendations for music I can use to dream or trance with.
>
>  ||  My goals:                                                ||
>  || Dreams sweet, nightmares black, meditations surreal ...   ||
>

 Here are the responses (so far) ...

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From: Edward M.

I can highly recommend anything by "The Grandfather of Minimalism" 
Lamonte Young.  If you're into Faust maybe you have the Tony Conrad
& Faust lp on Virgin.  Tony played with Young's ensemble back in the 
sixties.  Particularly incredible is "The Well Tuned Piano".
Ed.

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From: Chris A.

This would be my top list for late night mental exercizes:

Synthetic:

   Tangerine Dream 
      anything prior to Lily on the Beach/Melrose/Optical Race.
      best: Green Desert, Logos, Force Majeure

   Steve Rich/Robert Roach
      "Strata" - amazing.

   Michael Stearns
      All good; esp. "Encounter"

Prog/Space Rock:

   Pink Floyd
      Old stuff, esp. Dark Side of the Moon, Ummagumma

   Genesis
      Old stuff, esp. Foxtrot, Selling England by the Pound

   Steve Hackett
      Voyage of the Acolyte, Spectral Mornings

Bizarre Danceable/Tranceable Heavy Rhythm:

   Yello
      "You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess", "Baby"

Happy listening.  BTW, stay away from Yanni, he is classical saccharine
to the nth power, where n is large.  Probably Vangelis is a bad idea
too.

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From: ?????

Anything by 4AD act Dead Can Dance is GREAT!!  I'd start with the Ryko
compilation (I forget the title, but if you don't have any of their
import albums, it is a good and inexpensive start.)

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From: Cricket

   Perhaps you already have it (as it sounds like you are fairly well
versed in the "ambient industrial" field) but I cannot reccomend it
LP/CD enough:

   -V/A -Subrosa Myths 4 (w/ great trks by Coil, Current 93, and Morrocan
 trance music)

I also recommend later releases of Lustmord.

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From: Julian

Some not entirely industrial bands!

Not quite 'ambient industrial' but definitely not New Age are Slowdive,
who use oodles & oodles of guitar effects (& 3 guitar players) to create
drifting  whatevers of sound, with pretty heavy drumming. These days
they've gone pretty Cocteau Twins/Cure in sound (these days being their
debut LP!) - if possible check out the 'Slowdive' EP & stick Avalyn 2 on
at 33 (if you can get vinyl) and let that repetition get to you. It has a
pretty strange affect on my mind.
 Also check out MBV's 'Glider' (esp. the 9 minute version) - just looped
guitar noise sampled, building up into quite horrible (:-)) noise.
Spacemen 3's 'Suicide' (a tribute to the band) is a good 10 minutes or so
of throbbing distorted 60s keyboards playing one chord chucking out loads
of wierd beat frequencies.
 David Sylvian's 'Gone To Earth' is close-ish to Bill Nelson (unsurprising
as he plays on it).

All these records I've found have a certain 'mood-altering' affect.

Julian

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... and here is a summary of replies I got from the
    folks on rec.music.industrial:

      GROUP                    TITLE                       LABEL
     -------                  -------                     -------
Art of Noise         "The Ambient Collection"
Coil
Controlled Bleeding  "Music From The Scourging Ground"    [KK]
Current 93:          "Dawn"                               [Durtro]
Delerium             "Syrophenikan"
Electro Static Cat (or whatever their name is these days)
Etant Donnes         "Aurore"
De Fabriek
Bruce Gilbert:       "This Way To The Shivering Man"      [Stumm]
The Hafler Trio      "Kill The King"
The Hafler Trio & Thee Temple Of Psychic Youth:
                     "DREAMACHINE"
                       (includes the Dreamachine itself)  [KK]
HNAS
The KLF              "Chill Out"
Kraftwerk            "Autobahn"
Thomas Kolner        "Nuntak Gogamur"
Lustm0rd             "Heresy"
Bill Nelson          "Chance Encounters in the Garden of Lights"
Nocturnal Emissions
NON                  "Blood & Flame"                      [Stumm]
The Orb              "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld"
PGR/Asmus Tietchens/Merzbow   "GRAV"                      [Silent Record]

Psychic TV:          "Kondole/Dead Cat"                   [TOPY]
Soviet/Zoviet France "Just An Illusion"                   [Staaltape]
                     "Shadow, Theif of the Sun"
                     "Mohnomische"
Throbbing Gristle    "CD1"
                     "2nd Annual Report"
                     (esp. the Caum T.soundtrack)
Asmus Tietchens
Vangelis             "Direct"