Music From Patch Cord Productions CD

The work of Mort Garson has always held a special appeal to those who dig early electronic music. An early adopter of synthesizer technology, the late, great composer and experimentalist is beste days for his 1976 new age set, Mother Earth's Plantasia, which Sacred Bones reissued a few years back. Here the same label presents a selection of previously unheard, lifted from an archive of over 100 reels of archival recordings. Variously creepy, cheery, unsettling and joyous, the showcased music sits somewhere between new age synthesizer music, the alien-sounding experiments of the Radiophonic Workshop, Autobahn-era Kraftwerk, and the cheeriness of easy listening. As a result, it's an eclectic and at times surprising collection that should be essential listening for anyone interested in the development of electronic music.