TOD DOCKSTADER Eight Electronic Pieces 8 FOLKWAYS Psych

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Here is a great vintage electronic lp by Tod Dockstader called "Eight Electronic Pieces".

It got a rave review:

"February 23, 1970: The music trips are really helping me get through this intense winter.

"Dockstader is the only one you can count on to show up, trip after trip after trip.

"It always seems to be the climax, too, after pretenders such as Pink Floyd.

"Exposure to Dockstader has made me really critical of the music my friends are listening to."

"It is indeed gratifying to see Dockstader rediscovered by new generations of electronic music fans, but not surprising.

"He is simply one of the best practitioners of this tricky art, a genuine innovator.

"While his discography is not of the sort that could bury a healthy cabbage plant, the recordings he made are consistently brilliant, the music retaining its capacity to astonish.

"This album was originally released by Folkways. The recording consists of eight pieces that fit together as a suite, not revealing the gaps between them to any but the most concentrated listener.

"From an initial few seconds done in a kind of cheery, accessible sonority, Dockstader slips in the door like a costumed burglar and begins to create a sound world both real and unreal." -allmusic.com 

This is an original 1961 US first pressing on Folkways.  FM 3434.

Except for 100 privately pressed copies from 1960, which I have never seen offered for sale, this is the first pressing of Tod Dockstader's first record.

In other words, this is a historical moment in electronic music history, when it became more than just bloops and beeps, when it incorporated complex sound manipulations, all accomplished without a synthesizer.

The cover is near mint, with light edge wear.

The vinyl is nice with only faint angel hairs that result in occasional low noise.

Plays great.

Even the 1968 Scholastic reissue has sold for over fifty dollars and this is from 1961.

A great rare piece of elctronic music history.

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You can hear samples here:  http://www.amazon.com/Eight-Electronic-Pieces/dp/B00009QEPG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1226115372&sr=1-4