Laurie Spiegel – The Expanding Universe

I just received this pressing, and I was playing side C, flipped it over, and the same exact side played again... I then took a look at the etchings on the record, bc usually they label the sides there, and found that both sides were etched "C". Might be the first unlucky one to receive a misprinted copy of this record, but curious if anyone else runs into this... Super disappointed, it wasn't cheap.

Based on description of the tracklist from Spiegel's site, it seems that the titles "Old Wave" and "Pentachrome" were somehow switched. Surprising, if I'm right, that this was never fixed.
http://retiary.org/ls/expanding_universe/index.html (scroll down to "Notes on the pieces")

Weirdest inner sleeve ever. Takes me a few minutes every time to figure out which side it opens on...

Impressive pressing. After an initial cleaning of the vinyl, there are no pops/clicks and the discs are super flat and quiet (which is important because of the ambient nature and silences within the recordings). Packaging is also very sturdy and matches the vitality of the music inside. And whoa, what an amazing immersive experience this seminal work is. Highly recommended.

Collector Frenzy? Um, one should consider feeding the sharks for an original true analog pressing. Modern expanded offerings are best enjoyed in mp3 or cd format. Modern Vinyl reissues of primitive digital compositions are the real bait. Hope 100% recycled materials are used. I’m sure your friends will be impressed tho.

Spiegel the unsung early electronic genius! Brilliant 2 cd set worth of twisting, melodic analog synth music 100% accessible. This isn't dark, avant or sterile clinical electronic music instead much of this is along the trance/minimalist side of music think Terry Riley at his best moments circa Rainbow in Curved Air! Beautiful phased and filtered modulated music derived from diodes and silicon chips!

My copy is very noisy. Especially the 3rd LP. Hard to listen to. Not very impressed

This 2019 pressing sounds wonderful. Liner notes on every track. Beautiful and sturdy sleeve. Even comes with a postcard style download card! 4 out of 19 cd tracks were not included. Despite the omissions, I highly recommend it.

jesus christ when did this get so expensive? just saw it in a shop a few months back

The same conclusions were reached here as were reached by Juan Atkins a good while later, and to outstanding effect. Here, Laurie Anderson pretty much intuits the whole structure of techno by herself, 6 years prior to Cybotron's first release. It is somewhat striking she gets so little attention even in retrospect. Beautiful throughout, her debut LP The Expanding Universe reveals plainly and simply the fact that Techno cannot be conceived of as other to women as if they didn't play a role in its emergence and later its subsequent forms. Through Laurie, we recognise Techno' emergence through a multiplicity of distinct origins. It didn't come from any one person, crew, scene, night city, but is derived collectively through shared artistic and cultural endeavour, and experimentation with machines often very demanding and foreign in nature. Laurie was unique in being among those who properly domesticated technology to her own ends: she bent the Groove Synthesiser into a shape that through the work of others such as Jeff Mills or Robert Hood on altogether different machines, would later come to be known as techno. Her work sits alongside pioneers like Chris Carter, Craig Leon, In Aeternam Vale, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, whose power of vision sat exactly in proportion enormity of scale at which some of the producers delivering over the same period.