You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel’s masterpiece of early ambient music

I precocious had the pleasance of interviewing Laurie Spiegel for the site. As mentation for the interview, I spent a batch of clip implicit the past mates of weeks revisiting Spiegel's records, astir notably The Expanding Universe, her 1980 masterpiece that blends synth experimentalism with aboriginal examples of what would yet beryllium called ambient music, and algorithmic creation techniques. It's a marvel that sounds some nostalgic and cutting-edge astatine the aforesaid time.

Tracks similar "Patchwork" and "A Folk Study" dabble successful the benignant of bouncy arpeggios that beg comparisons to The Who's "Baba O'Riley," portion "Old Wave" and "East River Dawn" conjure ea …

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