RSS Feed (xml)Space Age Pop (SAP), what is it? If the album is made in the "age of Stereo" ie from mid 1950 to mid 1970 and has words like Percussion, Super Stereo, Moog, Glittering, Provocative and Exotic the chances are its a SAP album.
So what differentiates SAP from Easy Listening (EL)? Well words like Million, 101, Violins, Flutes, Romantic, Strict Tempo and Gentle would give the clue that its an EL album.
SAP albums were originally intended to show of the new wonder of stereo so ping pong effects, wide stereo panning and the printing of incomprehensible technical details on the back cover were common.
Anyway the Space Age Pop site gives a wonderful overview of this type of music and you should go there right now.
Anyway I was thinking of doing a post highlighting albums I think are representative of SAP music but while I mull over that daunting task I'm going to highlight the 10 basic SAP albums as listed on the aforesaid SAP site (see here).
Its a good starting place and most of the albums are already available on the net. Here then are the SAP 10 basic must have albums.
Anyway I was thinking of doing a post highlighting albums I think are representative of SAP music but while I mull over that daunting task I'm going to highlight the 10 basic SAP albums as listed on the aforesaid SAP site (see here).
Its a good starting place and most of the albums are already available on the net. Here then are the SAP 10 basic must have albums.
Available on the LB site or get it here
Here's a great stereo rip of this album courtesy of Manakoora. The original is in mono but Denny re-recorded it in glorious stereo and its my favourite version. Link
One of the kings of SAP music and any album of his is a listening treat. Link
I thought I had every Mancini Gunn album, there were 2 or 3, but I couldn't find this particular one. I found a site that had it but the link is Sendspace my least favourite file hosting site but I finally managed to download it so give it a try. Link
One of the many albums Enoch Light put out with the word Percussion in the title. Its hard to keep track of them all but they're all classic SAP music and the covers are a pop art delight too. Have fun collecting them all.
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F & T made a couple of really good SAP albums in the mid 50s until they got sick of eating noodles and living in the same room and decided to go Easy and make some folding money, which they did very successfully I might add. Listen for the treated piano almost classifiable as avant garde music. Classic SAP cover too. Link
Whew this steers dangerously close to EL but who am I to argue with such an esteemed site. The music is languid with sweeping strings and the sound of a cheery fire crackling in the background, oh wait its got some surface noise.
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Great make out music but move quickly before you both fall asleep which should take about two tracks.
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Great cover, great moog music and he's still alive and active today! Probably the greatest SAP moog artist and he has an incomparable library of albums which go way beyond what one thinks as Moog music. One mustn't forget his partner Mr Kingsley either.
A true classic and the album comprises the first 12 songs of this compilation and there's another 14 tracks.
Mr Anonymous has kindly given me a link to the above album. Just go to this blog it was posted in January in two parts. Link
Also here's some more moogalicious sounds from Mr Perrey.
What can you say about this album? Probably the best selling SAP album of all time and denizen of many a bargain bin and op shop. This copy looks like a CD rip so I grabbed this myself. Link.
Great mambo and latin album and this copy has Mambo Mania as a bonus. From a defunct site but the link is still active, lucky us.
12 comments:
Thanks! Believe it or not, all of these are new to me except Ritual, Whipped Cream, And Martinis, and I agree with you about martinis! I haven't really had time to listen to all of it yet, but I am psyched! The Enoch Light seems interesting. I never really saw what people see in him, but the few tracks I have listened to are great! I really like Esquivel, so I am looking forward to that one as well. Anyway, thanks, and I am looking forward to seeing what your top ten are.
Jonathan
I'm looking forward to my top ten as well as I haven't any idea yet what they'll be but I've got two or three in mind already.
Pity there's been a lack of comments on this post so far I thought it would create a lot of interest. Maybe the comment moderation is putting readers off.
Any way I might post the ten which I think are interesting and only upload them if there's sufficient interest.
Xtabay,
I wouldn't take the lack of comments too seriously. People are probably just away on vacation. This is a really great post.
Hey Jonathan did you see I've posted Sounds of Today not the best sound but listenable.
I forgot it was mid summer there, its winter here but with no clouds in the sky and 23C forecast it seems more like summer.
I found a double disc version called "The Out Sound from Way In (the complete Vanguard recordings)" of the Perrey-Kingsley album at the mUsistenZ blog - posted in January but still live as of yesterday.
Thanks so much for this killer kollection---you really hit a suave and well-rounded balance of Space Age Wunders, and I'm gonna dig in later this evening!
Just curious, though: Do you figure we're still IN the Space Age, or have we moved on to the Time Age, devoid of any sort of Spatiality? I don't much like the idea, since I myself take up some Space and find it quite comfortable, thank you very much. But the idea of disembodiment---or at least of dwelling in a spaceless time--- has its enticements. For one thing, we could probably get around a whole lot quicker, just zipping right around all the rush hour traffic caused by those archaic Space Dwellers.
Anyway, thanks again: I've downloaded scads of musical jewels from your site over the past year, and it just never occurred to me to express my gratitude.
Thanks for the comment Prof altho its a bit too spaced out for me to get my head around lol
Your blog is absolutely amazing! I just found it via a Google search for Kava Kon; it's going to take me forever to get through all this. Thanks for posting!
Early Ferrante and Teicher! great stuff. Many thanks
I jsut discovered this blog, it's fantastic. loved the esquivel particularly. thanks!
This is a great post--I love the Enoch Light and Ritual of the Savage. I'd heard about the latter but never got it until now. This is the first time I've commented but I just want to say THANKs for all the amazing music and Kulture!!
The Ferrante and Teicher link [sadly!] doe not work.
Steve C..
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