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Switched-On Bach

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date September 20, 2004
Like Bach? Like Electronica?
If you do, you need to buy this platinum selling album.

An album of straight classical keyboard virtuosity in experimental timbres.
Before this album, nobody had ever heard of a "synthesizer".
After this album, everybody knew the name Moog.(Rhymes with Vogue!)

Wendy Carlos? Genius! Pure genius.

There aren't that many genuinely seminal albums - but this is one of the very most original and best.

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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date April 24, 2007
Despite taking its title from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, this album explores a wider range of music than its predecessor, the justly famous Switched On Bach. Here, music by Monteverdi, Handel and Scarlatti sits alongside the Bach piece.

I'd advise anyone wondering whether to buy this album or Switched On Bach to buy this one first. Carlos' technique has advanced since the earlier album, and the result is possibly her most brilliant of the early Moog albums. The sound-colours are simply beautiful, the blending of textures by various means (outlined helpfully on Carlos' `secrets of Synthesis' CD) and the sheer overall musicality of the album make this one of the finest synthesizer albums ever recorded.

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Switched On [BOX SET]

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date April 05, 2005
Have been a fan since the early days with my scratchy vinyl and audio cassettes Switched on recordings - which have long worn out. This reprocessed version is excellent and also enjoyed the explanitary sections Wendy puts in. Remembering the early days of the monophonic Moogs through to the extraordinarily 'easy' time for today's artistes makes you really appreciate the effort the musicians, engineers, producers put in to provide us with such superb entertainment. The arrival and development of any new instrument can provide a tremendous spiritual uplift and insight into the beauty of music. (Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy hints at this). But Wendy's treatment of that great master Bach's work, brightens up the dullest of days and brings joy to the soul.

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Switched On Bach II

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date January 01, 2007
Have been a fan since the early days with my scratchy vinyl and audio cassettes Switched on recordings - which have long worn out. This reprocessed version is excellent and also enjoyed the explanitary sections Wendy puts in. Remembering the early days of the monophonic Moogs through to the extraordinarily 'easy' time for today's artistes makes you really appreciate the effort the musicians, engineers, producers put in to provide us with such superb entertainment. The arrival and development of any new instrument can provide a tremendous spiritual uplift and insight into the beauty of music. (Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy hints at this). But Wendy's treatment of that great master Bach's work, brightens up the dullest of days and brings joy to the soul.

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Sonic Seasonings

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date March 14, 2003
When I first heard this album in 1972 I was amazed. The reason I'd never heard anything like it was that back then there really was nothing else like it. Since then we've had Eno's ambient electronic music and a host of other, similar things which resemble some aspects of Sonic Seasonings, but in 1972 this was totally groundbreaking.

Back then most of didn't even know what a synthesizer was. I certainly didn't. Now I can find my way around the Moog modular Wendy Carlos used on this album, but the music sounds as fresh as it did originally. Time has only made it more and more clear how skilled Wendy was on her early Moog albums.

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A Clockwork Orange

by: Original Soundtrack

Release Date March 13, 2000
If you were to listen to this beutiful piece of music, and then watch the film it features in, you'd never think either were related. I'm not a huge fan of classical music, but am a fan of the movie, and so had to give this album a try.

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Tales of Heaven and Hell

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date January 24, 2005
If you were to listen to this beutiful piece of music, and then watch the film it features in, you'd never think either were related. I'm not a huge fan of classical music, but am a fan of the movie, and so had to give this album a try.

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By Request

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date November 17, 2003
A few vinyl copies with 'Pompous Circumstances' on did 'escape' onto the UK market, though they are now very rare. (If you are a vinyl collector, remember to search the second-hand market for Walter Carlos (later to become Wendy)). Pompous Circumstances is a cleverly constructed dialogue between Britain and the USA in the form of musical fragments that are identifiable as representing each country - from Camptown Races to Yellow Submarine. The fragments become shorter as the piece progresses, so that it is tantalisingly difficult to identify every quotation. There is also a wry ambiguity as to which country has the last word!

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Clockwork Orange [1972]

starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive
directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Release Date July 01, 2005
I was half way through watching a clockwork orange when i couldnt help but think what is all the fuss about??. Yes it may be shocking but that is all it is. Some times people for some reason regard controversial films as masterpieces when in trueth they are average. A good performance from the lead but the storyline is patchy and doesnt flow well. The film realise on shocking rape scenes to make up for the awful storyline, maybe a sign of poor filmmaking but thats being way way to critical

The only reason i have given "A clockwork orange" 4 stars is because of Kubricks other work such as Full metal jacket and the shining and the fact he is no longer with us influenced my desicion. For this film alone i wouldnt go further than 2 stars just for sheer overated piece ... Read More:

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Beauty in the Beast

by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date January 24, 2005
I was half way through watching a clockwork orange when i couldnt help but think what is all the fuss about??. Yes it may be shocking but that is all it is. Some times people for some reason regard controversial films as masterpieces when in trueth they are average. A good performance from the lead but the storyline is patchy and doesnt flow well. The film realise on shocking rape scenes to make up for the awful storyline, maybe a sign of poor filmmaking but thats being way way to critical

The only reason i have given "A clockwork orange" 4 stars is because of Kubricks other work such as Full metal jacket and the shining and the fact he is no longer with us influenced my desicion. For this film alone i wouldnt go further than 2 stars just for sheer overated piece ... Read More: