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Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the 2nd Moon

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Kid Baltan - Electronic Music

Label:
Catalog#:
315 538
Format:
Vinyl, 7"
Country:
Netherlands
Released:
1957
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Musique Concrète, Experimental

Tracklist

A   Song From The Second Moon
B   Colonel Bogey

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Electronically made experimental music from the labs of Philips; an announcement for the sound of the future. "Electronic music is like a new instrument, with its own possibilities of expression"
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Review by Alain_Patrick Aug 27, 2008
More than a decade before Kraftwerk, Dick Raaijmakers, also known as Kid Baltan (a pseudonym created by the spelling of his name Dick and Natlab - his working place - backwards) was, together with Tom Dissevelt, behind the early contemporary Electronic Music compositions.

Between 1957 and 1958, the duo composed through the use of primitive synthesizers timeless masterpieces, 'Song Of The Second Moon' and 'Sonik Re-Entry' being the most notorious of them.
Even before the landing of men into the Moon or any Space travels, majestic 'Song Of The Second Moon' captured the essence of the space mood and Science Fiction esthetic. 'Song Of The Second Moon' was the blueprint for a future sound, later recognized as 'Electronic Music'.

On the cover of the seven inch single first pressing on Philips, you could read 'Electronic Popular Music', and there was an astonishing text about the 'new possibilities of expression' concerning the Electronic Music and the independance between the spirit of the composition and the medium of its expression. (Don't miss the chance to read and realize how modern this concepts are).