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November, 2000
In an era of techno and electronica it's easy to overlook the fact that electronic music has been around for 80 years. Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music, 1948--1980 (Ellipsis Arts) is an intelligent survey of a once-promising genre. The three-CD set starts with Tchaikovsky's Valse Sentimentale (as performed on theremin) and ends with Brian Eno's ambient musings. In between there's Bayle, Risset, Stockhausen and Xenakis. But there are also plenty of surprises here: Charles Dodge's exhilara...
