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A really amazing record -- even more incredible than you might guess from the cover and title! The whole thing's definitely a "party" in sound -- as the record takes lots of familiar instrumentation and mixes it with odd sound effects and weird production tricks -- creating a space age ...

A groovy German treasure from the late 60s -- a sublime little set we'd rank right up there with the legendary Vampyros Lesbos for pure musical genius! Despite the appearance of a group on the album's cover, the music's all made by a couple of studio cats -- Horst Ackermann and Heribert Thusek, ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the funkiest albums ever from Henry Mancini -- a brilliant reworking of hit 70s cop show themes, put together with a really jazzy groove! The group's a big one -- filled with hip players who include Clare Fischer on organ, Artie Kane on electric piano and harpsichord, Don Menza on tenor, ...

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 ...

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?). ...

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", ...

Of all of his A&M records, this is our favorite. Why? Well, because it seems to break from the usual Tijuana Brass sound, and adds in some weird arrangements, cool instrumentation, and a great set of tracks. Herb does a great job with Nilsson's excellent cut "Without Her", and the ...

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 ...

Holy cow! Although some of Leonard Nimoy's albums were attempts to "get past" his Spock career, this one is a full-on Star Trek experience! Nimoy's on the cover, holding a replica of The Enterprise in front of some weird spider web design. On the wax, he's laying down great space stuff ...

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 ...

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 ...

This album features Chicago jazz legend Eddie Higgins playing the moog on a number of soundtrack-related cuts, including "Theme from Z", "Mah-Na, Mah-Na", and "Midnight Cowboy". Hip sound, and a great use of the moog. Spooky. ...

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 ...

Juan Garcia's at his best here -- gazing into a telescope on the cover, looking at the stars and contemplating his next musical direction. For that, the session leaps into a swinging hi-fi mode that brings the hi-ghest fi-delity to the band's nutty approach to arrangements. Esquivel's definitely ...

This is John Keating's electronic masterpiece -- and it's filled with a fantastic mix of funky rhythms, big band orchestrations, and wild spacey electronics! The record was one of the EMI Studio 2 gems that got the whole Sound Gallery going, and it still sound great today. There's a few originals ...

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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 ...

One of the most memorable Esquivel albums, and perhaps the first record that really let him hit his fantastic mix of off-beat orchestrations and spacey electronicized production! The arrangements are splendid, with echoey piano lines in the front that seem to trail off into the stratosphere. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A knockoff group -- like a lot of the stuff on Diplomat -- but they're pretty swingin' nonetheless, and lay down nice versions of the spy themes "The Silencers" and "Our Man Flint". The album's short -- and more like an e.p. -- but the keyboards are pretty groovy, and it's got ...

A sparkling set of piano instrumentals from Dick Hyman -- not electric or moogy at all, despite the date -- and often recorded with some weird overdubbing that's almost in a Ferrante & Teicher style! Hyman's keyboard work here is often highly virtuostic -- hardly the laidback styles you'd ...

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 ...

A pop instrumental album, but a really tremendous one -- filled with snapping bossa rhythms, and recorded with a really wonderful sound! Pianist Joe Harnell is at the head of the set here -- working the keys in a bold, echoey way that's a bit like Roger Williams -- but the real star is almost the ...

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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 ...

Nice nice set of some of Esquivel's best moments from his late-50s/early-60s RCA recordings! The cover's got Juan Garcia on the front, looking very cool, and the record includes a dozen groovy numbers that are the epitome of space age bachelor pad chic: "Poinciana", "Guadalajara" ...

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'". ...

Les Baxter conducts a set of string-laden ballads with a sweet dreamy feel. Titles include "Dawn On the City", "Rush Hour Romance", "Afternoon Affair", and "Hot Summer Night". And despite the fact that this stuff's not his exotic material, Les still wrote a ...

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 ...