Fans of Midnight Juggernauts and Cut Copy's disco-rock beats, sweeping synths, Beatle-esque harmonies, vocoders and laser beams: we need to talk about Electric Light Orchestra. And not the ELO who brought you "Evil Woman" or even "Don't Bring Me Down", but specifically their hugely influential and yet under-the-radar 1981 synth-heavy experimental space-disco/rock concept album, "Time." So I asked Ken Robin, a S.F.-based attorney, to talk about it, because he is my dad. He wrote this: "When I first heard of Electronic Light Orchestra in the '70s, I immediately pictured [...]
Fans of Midnight Juggernauts and Cut Copy 's disco-rock beats, sweeping synths, Beatle-esque harmonies, vocoders and laser beams: we need to talk about Electric Light Orchestra. And not the "Evil Woman" or even "Don't Bring Me Down" ELO, but specifically their hugely influential and yet under-the-radar 1981 synth-heavy experimental space-disco/rock concept album, "Time." So I asked Ken Robin, a S.F.-based attorney, to talk about it, because he is my dad. He wrote this: "When I first heard of Electronic Light Orchestra in the '70s, I immediately pictured polka playing Lawrence Welk and his [...]
Fans of Midnight Juggernauts and Cut Copy's disco-rock beats, sweeping synths, Beatle-esque harmonies, vocoders and laser beams: we need to talk about Electric Light Orchestra. And not the ELO who brought you "Evil Woman" or even "Don't Bring Me Down", but specifically their hugely influential and yet under-the-radar 1981 synth-heavy experimental space-disco/rock concept album, "Time." [...]