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Mad electronics from the legendary Bruce Haack -- easily one of the most unusual talents to ever pick up a moog! The set brings together numbers from a range of sources -- Haack's classic Electric Lucifer album, and a host of his more obscure private recordings too -- an amazing array of unusual ...

An excellent bit of space-age jazzy and grooviness! Don Sebesky conducts a host of crack Verve studio players, and the mix of instruments includes piano, sax, flute, guitar, and lots of moog. The basic groove has sort of a 70s funky soundtrack feel, and the instrumentation on top adds lots of ...

A bit goofy, but a pretty compelling record issued on Motown's MoWest subsidiary. Tom Clay creates these groovy tracks that mix popular soul instrumentals (arranged by Gene Page and Artie Butler) with recitations that have a very righteous political feel. The single on the record, "What The ...

A very groovy batch of pop bossa tracks, and one that has Laurindo Almeida nodding to his Brazilian roots, and the movement that was supposedly inspired by his early 50s records with Bud Shank. This album expands the west coast jazzy concept, by adding a larger group with players like Bob Cooper, ...

Totally totally cool LP that has this groovy group playing with Oliver Nelson -- who plays soprano on most tracks. The sound is very groovy, and very Now Sound, with a female vocal duet, and mod swingin' jazzy lyrics. The LP's got a nice version of "My Favorite Things", a cool track ...

Wonderful funky fuzzy moogy! The cover proclaims that this is the "first album of electronic rock" -- and although we don't know how true that is, the record's a nice batch of moogy covers -- featuring tracks like "Grazin In the Grass", "Aquarius", "Penny ...

A beautiful bit of 70's grooviness from one of our favorite Italian composers! This set brings together 2 extremely rare soundtracks by the great Alberto Baldan Bembo, and they're both a fantastic mix of Fender Rhodes piano, vibes, wah wah guitar, and stunningly sensuous orchestrations. All of ...

Excellent lost funky work from Italy! The Barigozzi Group were one of these obscure little combos that churned out tight funky tracks for bigger outfits -- very much in the style of I Gres, Marc 4, or some of the other great Italian groups that are being discovered lately. Their strength was a ...

High concept work from David Axelrod -- and following on the same progression that he began with his work for the Electric Prunes, and on some of his Capitol work. The record's a version of Handel's Messiah, but it's done with all the right Axelrod touches -- plenty of subdued funk, nice jazzy ...

Bossa guitar, dreamy orchestrations, and a wonderful American take on the Brazilian sound of the 60s -- served up with sparkling Capitol Records production in a set that's easily one of the greatest by guitarist Laurindo Almeida! Almeida's guitar is matched here with some lightly jazzy backings ...

This is the 70's repackaging of the first Mystic Moods LP -- the one with 60's instrumental pop themes, mixed with sound effects of a rainy stormy night. Titles include "Love Is Blue", "Waltz For Tricia", "Lover's Lullaby", "Visions", "Come Saturday ...

Groovy pop orchestrations from one of the best bandleaders working at Verve in the late 60's. Sweet Verve sounds, with a mix of jazz, easy, and Brazilian sounds, and tracks like "Laia Ladaia", "Cinnamon & Clove", "The Look of Love", "Arrasto", and "B ...

Delightful instrumentals -- not as jazzy as Mancini's regular soundtrack work, but still pretty nice! The tracks are more in an easy instrumental vein -- but given Hank's style, they're still pretty cool, especially as they feature work by west coast jazzmen like Shelly Manne, Victor Feldman, Bob ...

A sweet little album of cinematic-inspired instrumentals -- featuring the sax work of Brit Easy star Johnnie Gray, over backings put together by Peter Smith. The sound is easily grooving -- not really funky, but in that streamlined late 60s British mode -- and the best tracks come off in very nice ...

One of the hardest to find LPs by Phil Bodner's combo The Brass Ring, which is saying a lot, since nearly the rest of the groups output is taking up space in nearly every thrift store's basement across the country! Besides that the set has a very groovy sound with sax, brass, and organ a meeting ...

The album to back up David Rose's famous single of the title, a track that, no matter how many times we hear it, still sounds great today. Too bad the rest of this isn't as great, but still, it's not too bad, especially on tracks like "Deserted City", and his take on "Laura". ...

Pretty darn groovy! Jack Pleis is at the helm of this obscure studio group designed to cash in on the younger generation (or older easy fans who wanted to be hip!), and he does a great job of laying down some slightly-funky easy arrangements with a light 60s Capitol pop feel! Titles include " ...

A groovy LP that features this swinging 60s keyboardist playing his versions of some of the bigger soul covers of the day! The album features Hyman on piano, organ, and clavinette, and he's playing with "The Group", a tight little combo that gives him a hip kind of mod edge that wasn't ...

Oh for the mellow genius of Henry Mancini! The album's a sublime testament to Mancini's talent for understatement -- and features tunes that move along quietly, smoothly, and with a wonderful blend of piano, strings, and slight chorus vocals -- to to mention some great flugelhorn solos from Doc ...

Classic percussion and brass recording by one of the loudest conductor/arrangers in the business. Tracks include "Stumbling", "The Thunderer", "Misirlou", and "Chimed, I'm Sure" (get the joke?). ...

Moog -- with a twang! This excellent set is by the enigmatic Gil Trythall -- a moog musician who turned his talents towards the sound of 60s Nashville, with some incredible results! The format is simple -- take country hits, strip them down, and fill them with cool electronics and moogy bits -- ...

Jack "Bongo" Burger was similar to Jack "Mr. Bongo" Costanza -- that is, he was a west coast studio player who also made a number of albums under his own name, and who could groove pretty hard if he wanted to. This LP is a bongo instructional record with him playing along with ...

Terrible! But pretty darn wonderful, too -- at least if you dig The Odd Couple! Considering their roots in Broadway, Randall and Klugman should be pretty decent singers -- but instead, they decide to camp it up for this one, as they spend a lot of time arguing about and during sweet old-fashioned ...

A more Latin-styled set than usual from The Brass Ring -- as you might guess from the title and cover! The sound is slightly fuller here -- a bit of brassy trumpets used sparingly, but just enough to fill out the groove at times -- and other new elements too, like acoustic guitar, added rhythms, ...

A very nice album that's sort of a "Bacharach meets The Left Banke" kind of album. The 18th Century Corp peform nice baroque versions of Bacharach material, including many hits like "Are You There", "Wishin & Hopin", "Reach Out For Me", "Walk On ...

A groovy moogy pop classic! Hot Butter weren't the most groundbreaking moog combo, but they certainly were the most successful. The title cut of this one, their version of Gershon Kingsley's "Popcorn", was used in a gazillion commercials and TV shows during the 70s -- and was certainly ...

Wonderfully groovy stuff! Enoch Light has made more than his share of mediocre records over the years -- but this isn't one of them! Instead, this set is an excellent batch of groovy tunes -- mixing together mod 60s instrumentation that includes sitar, organ, moog, backing vocals, and some nice ...

Capitol 12" LP that features work from 2 earlier Yma Sumac 10" LPs -- Voice of The Xtabay and Inca Taqui. Voice Of The Xtabay is one of her earliest Capitol albums, with classic arrangements by Les Baxter, of material that was written by Yma's Partner Moises Vivanco. Titles include ...

Moogy country stuff that actually sounds pretty great (imagine all of the plinks and ploinks of the moog in bluegrass stuff.) Tracks include "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", "Last Date", "Cattle Call", and "Walking the Floor Over You" -- but our two faves are ...

A lost lounge gem from the RCA catalog -- with a dreamy exotica feel that's right up there with the best of the bachelor pad era! Gerald Fried arranged and conducted this ersatz studio group, and his overall approach has lots of sweeping woodwinds and percussion, similar to the great Les Baxter ...

One of Henry Mancini's grooviest LPs from the 70s -- a mixture of tight large arrangements with a smooth funky edge, similar to some of his best soundtrack work at the time! The rhythm section is great -- with Harvey Mason on drums and Joe Sample on keyboards, and guitar by David T Walker and ...

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Excellent work from Enoch Light! Sure, the guy was a knock-off snoozer back in the early 60s -- but by this point, he's gotten a very hip sound, and is working here with his Brass Menagerie ensemble to craft a lightly groovy late 60s easy back of tracks! The group's got horns over the top, and ...

Breathy, sexy pop stuff from 101 Strings, featuring a nice remake of "Je T'Aime...Moi, Non Plus", with vocals by Bebe Bardon. Sexy gatefold package, too, and very different than their other records. More of a sexy easy pop sound than usual, with covers of "This Guy's In Love With ...

Claude Denjean's always been one of our more favorite moogy artists, and this LP's a really nice batch of 60's covers done in a very moogy way, with little or no backing behind them. Tracks include "Venus", "Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head", and "Everybody's Talkin'". ...

A lovely little set from Johnny Keating -- in his best early mode that's partly jazz, and partly mood music -- and all great all the way through! Keating's work always had a percussive approach -- even when straight -- and here, it's applied to a set of tracks that crackle with the best approaches ...

Lots of percussion -- and loud! Slatkin's normally a bit sleepy, but this record's filled with drums and chimes and vibes and loads of exotic percussion instruments -- and swings with a groove that's in the best of the Liberty easy styles from the late 50s. Titles include "Night Train", ...

One of the most important modernist expressions of the city! Gordon Jenkins' Manhattan Tower is a wonder -- an extended narrative work about a guy who moves to, discovers, falls in love with and in New York City. The music's a bit flowery, but the narration is fantastic -- lifted right out of ...

Although there were plenty of easy and studio musicians who tried to cash in on the success of the Bond-era spy soundtracks, few did it as well as Billy Strange! He gets a helping hand here from Les Baxter and a boatload of west coast session greats like Carol Kaye, Tommy Tedesco, Dennis Budimir, ...

The man responsible for so many great soul arrangements strikes out on his own -- and with some really wonderful results! The style here is a bit more groovy and mod than some of Arif's soul work -- but still has a nice little groove on the bottom -- a kind of bouncy mix of Atlantic soul and mod ...

One of the weirdest Beatle-related projects of the 60s -- and one of the most abstract, as well! The album's got kind of an odd concept -- in that it purports to be a rediscovery of rare baroque music roots of famous Beatle tunes by Lennon & McCartney -- recorded with offbeat arrangements done ...

Jackie Gleason's soundtrack for "that moment" of love, lust, whatever. Like a lot of his stuff from this period, not totally spot-on for the specified act (at least we'd never try to make "that moment" happen with this stuff), but it's still pretty great lush orchestral stuff, ...

Man, somebody at the Light label had to have been smoking something behind all those bibles -- because this album, like some of the other groovy ones on the label, has a great sound to it that's nothing like some of their mostly religious records! The album's a mostly-moog affair -- offered with ...

Weird mix of jazz, classical, exotica, and more -- all packaged together in a cover that features two skeletons hanging from a set of gallows! The tracks aren't as scary as the cover -- but the hi-fi package is a good one, and there's a few nice numbers, like "Theme From Richard Diamond" ...

James Last's cool version of the Hair score, played with funky staccato beats and sharp horn blasts -- both of which augment Galt MacDermot's groovy music in a very good way. All the faves are here, in nice groovy versions, including "Walking In Space", "Hare Krishna", and ...

A wonderful combination of music and sound effects -- very similar to some of the bigger label work from artists like Jack Fascinato or Dean Elliott over at Capitol Records in the late 50s, but an even more sonically-sensitive session done for the smaller Cook imprint! Jimmy Carroll leads an ...

One of the best Nelson Riddle instrumental albums for Capitol Records -- nice and jazzy! Let Yourself A set that's almost like soundtrack jazz at its best -- well conceived, and tightly arranged -- but with some strong moments of individual instrumentation! There's a slight touch of sweetness at ...

A fab set of James Bond tunes -- performed by Brit easy maestro Roland Shaw, in a style that's arguably groovier than the original soundtracks themselves! There's some nice instrumental touches on a few of these that push the mood of the set in a good way -- and Shaw's also chosen a lot of less-fam ...

An incredible little set by Dick Hyman -- as light and lovely as his other records are groovy -- and done in a way that mixes Dick's breezy work on piano with a sweet set of woodwinds in the background! The sound's not exactly bossa, but it draws plenty of inspiration from the sound of Brazil in ...

Enoch Light and his Big Band give upbeat renditions of "Desifinado", "One Note Samba", "Perdido", "E Luxo So", "Sem Saudades De Voce", "Besame Mucho", "Take The A Train", "Lullaby Of Birdland", and others. ...