Blog: the blackened air

an essential guide to the birth of electronic music. brian eno puts it pretty well in the introduction in the accompanying booklet: "many of the ideas in this collection have now been so completely assimilated into popular listening that it may sometimes be hard to remember how surprising it all was on first outing. some of it still sounds pretty exotic. these cds are important as part of the story of how we got to where we are now–the cultural conversation so far–and as a still fruitful repertoire of future possibilities." there's also a dvd out [...]