Goro Ohmi (淡海悟郎) – Niji Shinden (虹神殿) – Image Album (1984, LP, Japan)

Tracklist:
A1 椰子の岸辺 (Yashi no Kishibe) (6:13)

A2 剣の心 (Ken no Kokoro) (7:25)
A3 スコールの慰め (Squall no Nagusame) (7:15)
B1 虹の神殿 (Niji no Shinden) (7:26)
B2 花の舞 (Hana no Mai) (7:08)
B3 神々の視座 (Kamigami no Shiza) (8:00)

Composer, Arranger, Synthesizer Performer - Goro Ohmi

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Presage – Presage (1983, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:
A1 Presage 3:44
A2 Cyborg 4:09
A3 Blue Mirage 4:10
A4 Cyrce 3:44
A5 Trigger 2:50
B1 Space Runner 3:44
B2 Tibet 4:35
B3 Overglide 3:35
B4 Oddity 5:56

Musicians:
Tony Pomara: drums
Giacomo Caliolo: guitar
Pinuccio Zuppone: keyboards
Orazio Ursino: bass
Giovanni Burzomato: guitar
Producer, Composed By, Arranged By – G.P. Reverberi

A fascinating and rare piece of Italian 80s music, Presage sits at the intriguing intersection of Italian Progressive Rock and emerging New Wave/Electro-Pop. The album utilizes heavy synthesizer textures and drum machines, giving classic prog structures a sleek, futuristic, and atmospheric '80s sheen. Highly sought after by collectors of RPI (Rock Progressivo Italiano) for its unique, synth-driven sound.

Carlo Maria Cordio/ Claudio Simonetti – Aenigma/ Conquest/ Morirai A Mezzanotte (1988, CD, Italy)

Aenigma
1 Carlo Maria Cordio– Sudden Death 2:58
2 Carlo Maria Cordio– On The Dark Hill 3:12
3 Carlo Maria Cordio– Demon Knights 2:15
4 Carlo Maria Cordio– Sudden Death 2:13
5 Carlo Maria Cordio– Devil In A Red Dress 2:59
6 Carlo Maria Cordio– Science Project 3:14
7 Carlo Maria Cordio– Leaving LA 3:51
8 Carlo Maria Cordio– Imaginary Crimes 3:28
9 Carlo Maria Cordio– Opening Night 3:14
10 Carlo Maria Cordio– Search And Destroy 3:29
11 Carlo Maria Cordio– Fire And Dust 2:24
12 Carlo Maria Cordio– Run To Kill 2:32
13 Carlo Maria Cordio– Leaving LA 2:40
14 Carlo Maria Cordio– Breaking The Waves 2:12
15 Carlo Maria Cordio– Before And After 3:32
16 Carlo Maria Cordio– Tomorrow Woman 1:21
17 Carlo Maria Cordio– Fear Above Water 2:48
18 Carlo Maria Cordio– Head Over Heels 2:55
Conquest
19 Claudio Simonetti– Conquest 2:59
20 Claudio Simonetti– Flutes In The Night 2:07
21 Claudio Simonetti– Night Creatures 2:18
22 Claudio Simonetti– The Capture 1:31
23 Claudio Simonetti– The Cavern 1:04
24 Claudio Simonetti– Black Birds 1:18
25 Claudio Simonetti– Lonely Man 1:26
26 Claudio Simonetti– Funny Hunt 0:39
27 Claudio Simonetti– Dolphin 1:10
Morirai A Mezzanotte
28 Claudio Simonetti– Nichola's Death 1:54
29 Claudio Simonetti– The Smog Suspense 2:20
30 Claudio Simonetti– Black Dream 2:02
31 Claudio Simonetti– Dark Strings 0:53
32 Claudio Simonetti– Night Strings 1:02

Composed By – Carlo Maria Cordio (1 to 18), Claudio Simonetti (19 to 32)
Tracks 1 - 18 are from the soundtrack to Lucio Fulci's Aenigma, made in 1987.
Tracks 19 - 27 are from the soundtrack to Lucio Fulci's Conquest, made in 1983.
Tracks 28 - 32 are from the soundtrack to Lamberto Bava's Morirai A Mezzanotte (aka The Midnight Killer), made in 1986.

Giorgio Farina – Discocross (1978, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:
A Farina's Suite 14:57
B1 Tawawa's 5:52
B2 Suite Slide Return 10:05

Musicians:
Bass – Fabio Pignatelli
Drums – Agostino Marangolo
Guitar – Massimo Morante
Guitar [Electric] – Ivan Basilio
Keyboards – Claudio Simonetti
Vocals – Rita Menghini

Argo – Šviesa (1983, LP, USSR)

Tracklist:
A1 Pasaulis Vis Dar Noksta Manyje = The World Inside Me Is Awake 8:04
A2 Su Tavo Šypsena Nebesuspėju = Playing With The Sun 3:30
A3 Ir Šviesumas Gi Tos Dienos = The Day Is So Bright 7:38
B1 Ateik Ir Nueik = Awaking Of Our Senses 7:41
B2 Gyvenimo Švelnus Prisiglaudimas = The Ray's Tender Touch 9:32
B3 Regiu Gyvybę Šviečiant = On Seeing The Light Of Life 2:08

Musicians:
Bass Guitar – Artūras Kuznecovas
Chorus – "Ąžuoliukas" ("Oakling"), A Group Of The Boys' Chorus (A1, B3)
Drums – Arūnas Mikuckis
Guitar – Linas Pečiūra
Synthesizer – Julius Vilnonis
Synthesizer, Leader – Giedrius Kuprevičius
Vocals – Gintaras Kizevičius (A2, A3, B2)

Andy Summers, Robert Fripp – Bewitched (1984, CD, England)

Tracklist:
1 Parade 3:01
2 What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy 11:12
3 Begin The Day 3:33
4 Train 4:33
5 Bewitched 3:53
6 Tribe 3:23
7 Maquillage 2:16
8 Guide 2:34
9 Forgotten Steps 3:57
10 Image And Likeness 1:30

Musicians:
Bass – Chris Childs, Sara Lee
Composed By – Andy Summers (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9)
Drums – Paul Beavis
Saxophone – Chris Winter
Synthesizer [Roland Gr700 & 300, Jupiter 6, Jx 3p], Sequencer [Msq 700 Sequencer], Drum Machine [Tr909 Drum Machine], Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Loops, Other [Water Bucket] – Andy Summers, Robert Fripp
Tabla – Jesse Lota

Richard Harvey – Nifty Digits (1980, LP, England)

Tracklist:

A1 Motor Roller 2:57

A2 Festival (a) 2:10

A3 Festival (b) 2:05

A4 Exchange 2:13

A5 Dragonfly Dance 2:10

A6 Water Course (a) 1:57

A7 Water Course (b) 0:40

A8 Storm Riders 2:16

B1 Nifty Digits 2:28

B2 Song Of The Open Spaces (a) 4:00

B3 Song Of The Open Spaces (b) 3:00

B4 Air Spirals 0:56

B5 Soft Caress 1:35

B6 Victorian Lullaby 2:00

B7 Light Dancing 1:10

B8 Graylands 2:20

Composed By – Richard Harvey

Wavemaker – New Atlantis (1977, LP, England)

SIDE A
A1 Salomon's House 6:20
A2 The Pool 3:09
A3 Merchants Of Light 6:14
A4 Waters Of Paradise 3:55
SIDE B

Echoes Suite ("We Also Have Sound Houses...")
B1 Echoes A 3:19
B2 Echoes B 3:55
B3 Echoes C 7:56
B4 Towers And Caves 4:53

Musicians:

Producer, Performer – Brian Hodgson

Producer, performer – John Lewis

Percussion – Tony McVey

Francis Monkman – Energism (1978, LP, England)

Tracklist:
A1 The Dawn Of An Era (Realisation Of Unlimited Possibility) 3:10
A2 The Endurance Of Man (Expenditure Of Energy) 2:58
A3 Perpetual Motion (Unceasing Energy) 3:56
A4 Perpetual Motion (Alternate Cut Off End) 0:14
A5 The Achievements Of Man (The Determination To Achieve Great Heights) 3:28
A6 The Achievements Of Man (Alternate Tail End) 0:25
B7 Man & Superman (The Endless Turmoil) 3:30
B8 Man & Superwoman (Power With A Feline Structure) 3:16
B9 Female Of The Species (A Study In The Female Infra-structure) 2:57
B10 Bionics (Power Without Suppression - The Eternity) 2:07
B11 The Ascent Of Man (The Power Within Us) 1:59

Musicians:

Bass Guitar – Mo Foster

Drums – Barry De Souza

Percussion – Tristam Fry

Written-By, Keyboards – Francis Monkman

The first solo album released in 1979 by Francis Monkman, a British keyboard player who played on Al Stewart's early works and on Curved Air. Originally released on a British library label called Bruton, Klaus Schulze licensed it and re-released it on Innovative Communication. The composition consists of keyboards, percussion, drums, and bass, and the music is metallic and clear electric jazz-rock. The album features a mix of arpeggio synths, spacy synth SEs, and technical band sounds in the electric symphonic rock of A2/A3.

Telectu - Cutler - Berrocal – Telectu Cutler Berrocal (1995, CD, Portugal/ England/ France)

Tracklist:
1 Gost 42:13
2 God 12:38
3 Devil 13:13

Musicians:
Drums, Percussion, Electronics – Chris Cutler
Guitar, Tape, Electronics, Producer – Vitor Rua
Piano, Synthesizer, Percussion – Jorge Lima Barreto
Trumpet, Electronics – Jac Berrocal

Track 1 recorded live at Teatro S. Luis, Lisbon, 1994.
Track 2 recorded live at Teatro Gil Vicente, Coimbra, 1992.
Track 3 recorded live at Casa de Serralves, Oporto, 1994.

Fabio Liberatori – The Asimov Assembly - A Tribute To Isaac Asimov (2002, CD, Italy)

Tracklist:
1 Eyes Do More Than See 4:21
2 Strikebreaker 7:25
3 Nightfall 4:18
4 Nobody Here But... 5:01
5 The Machine That Won The War 5:03
6 The Galaxy Stock Exchange 4:21
7 My Son, The Physicist 3:38
8 Insert Knob A In Hole B 4:49
9 The Up- To -Date Sorcerer 5:33
10 Nightfall - Reprise 1:14

Musicians:

Fabio Liberatori/ Keyboards and Sonic Treatments

Sonja Kristina/ Vocals (1,3)

Arturo Stalteri/ Piano, Keyboards (3,5,7)

Anthony Drago/ Vocals (6)

Dominique Guiot, Eric Mallet – Plans & Sequences (1986, LP, France)

Tracklist:
A1 Jupiter 4:27
A2 Astrolabe 3:19
A3 Natural 2:57
A4 Glass 3:04
A5 Squadron 3:20
A6 Trapezium 2:13
A7 The End 2:19
B1 Go 3:25
B2 Power 3:00
B3 Mechanism 2:49
B4 Silicone Valley 1 2:58
B5 Silicone Valley 2 3:22
B6 Agenda 3:07
B7 Guillotine 1:07

Composed By – Dominique Guiot (A1 to A3, A7, B1 to B5), Eric Mallet, Fred Manda (A4 to A6, B6), Rolando Tambin (B7), Terry Lipton (B7)

Psichiatria Primo Piano – Psichiatria Primo Piano (2013, Cassette, Italy)

Tracklist:

A. Cascata

B. Sollievo Dal Terrore

Recorded By – Stefano Iannone/ N. Ritter

Recorded 2012-2013 in Italy + Wisconsin

The haunter mastermind behind Spettro Family, takes us on an all-new journey. Psichiatria Primo Piano revels in the heights of Italian symphonic progressive keyboard music; but despite this cassette being well within that sub-tradition, it also looks towards a far beyond future. Throughout the album, while manic shifts in style and texture continue to churn and churn, they haphazardly orbit into a kaleidoscopic universe of musical miniatures. At times these vignettes begin as elaborate deconstructions of the syncopated structures of prog-rock, but just as quickly evolve into massive collages that can bring to mind anything from radio rock, kosmiche musik, death metal, nursery rhymes, library music, Skinny Puppy, Phillip Glass, The Residents, Goblin, Stockhausen, and on and on. Aided and enabled by contributions from Nathaniel Ritter (Circulation of Light, Kinit Her, et al), this composition moves fast and rushes past you like the end of a dream, full of colors ecstatic, tranquil, and grotesque. (Heathen Harvest)

松武秀樹 Hideki Matsutake & K.I. Capsule – 007 Digital Moon (1979, LP, Japan)

Tracklist:
A1 The James Bond Theme
A2 You Only Live Twice
A3 The Man With The Golden Gun
A4 From Russia With Love
A5 Diamonds Are Forever
B1 Moon Raker
B2 Live And Let Die
B3 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
B4 Nobody Does It Better
B5 Goldfinger

HIDEKI MATSUTAKE is famous Japanese computer music programmer and one of the pioneers in the synthesizer music, he joined many YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA sessions. He uses Moog III-C, Poly Moog, Oberheim 8 voice, Prophet-5, Arp Odyssey, EMS VCS-3, Roland Vocoder VP-330 & Roland Micro Composer MC-8 and plays James Bond/007 music on this album.

Teddy Lasry – Rush (1981, LP, France)

More dramatic jazz prog vein, with several cinematic influences, and still sole funky elements, very refined synth electronic.

Baffo Banfi – Ma, Dolce Vita (1979, LP, Italy)

Tracklist:
A1 Oye Cosmo Va 6:41
A2 Quelle Dolce Estate Sul Pianeta Venere 6:05
A3 Vino, Donne E Una Tastiera 7:14
A4 Astralunato 3:51
B Fantasia Di Un Pianeta Sconosciuto 17:57

Musicians:
Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By, Liner Notes – Klaus Schulze
Written-By, Synthesizer [Moog Modular System, Minimoog, Yamaha CS-80], Vocoder [Korg] – Baffo Banfi

Giuseppe Banfi, former keyboardist of Un Biglietto per l'Inferno started a solo career with an album in 1978. His own musical style is deeply inspired by the visionary sounds of Kosmische electronic music from Berlin. It features gorgeous spaced out synthesised soundscapes and floating minimal melodies. After the release of Galaxy my dear (1978), he published Ma, dolce vita (1979) and Hearth (1981) on Schulze's label, Innovative Communication.

Moondog – The Viking Of Sixth Avenue (2004, 2xLP, Usa)

Compilation of early Moondog EPs and 10"s.

Nino Nardini ‎– Musique Pour Le Futur (1971, LP, France)

An experimental, musique concrete, sci-fi masterpiece. Originally recorded for Crea Sound Ltd., a sub-label of Louis Delacour's Neuilly imprint, Musique Pour Le Futur finds the French composer, arranger, producer, possible time-traveler, and all around music library legend Nino Nardini experimenting with synthesizers, percussions, prepared piano, echo, and special effects. Fans of electronic oddities, eerie cinematic audio-landscapes, Piero Umiliani, Ruth White, Tod Dockstaeder or Bernard Parmegiani, will rejoice at this full-length musical adventure that could very well be the soundtrack for a film in which characters from a '70s Italian horror movie visit a distant (forbidden) planet from a '50s sci-movie. It's bizarre, hypnotizing, slightly spooky, always out-of-this-world, and goddamn brilliant. Nino Nardini, also known as Georges Teperino, had a very fruitful career in library music, much like longtime collaborator Roger Roger. He composed a very large amount of works for French and British libraries which continues to be featured in numerous programs (radio, TV, films) all around the world. His passion for electronic music experimentations began in the late '60s and kept going until the '80s.

El Secreto Metro – El Sigilo De La Sigilografia (1982, Cassette, Spain)

Trembling Strain – Four Pictures ～四つの弔歌～(1995, CD, Japan)

Tracklist:
1. 埋葬歌 - Maisōka [Music for Burial] 10:59
2. 印 I - Shirushi I [Sigil I] 1:57
3. 火葬歌 - Kasōka [Music for Cremation] 8:31
4. 印 II - Shirushi II [Sigil II] 2:28
5. 嘆きの川辺 - Nageki no Kawabe [Kokytus] 12:46
6. 印 III - Shirushi III [Sigil III] 2:20
7. 鳥葬歌 - Chōsōka [Music for Aerial Sepulcher] 7:40
8. 印 IV - Shirushi IV [Sigil IV] 2:41

9. 水葬歌 - Suisōka [Music for Burial in Water] 10:38

In the mid-1990s, electronic and new age music composer Pneuma (Satoru Takazawa) unexpectedly shifted gears, leaving a series of tasteful recordings drenched in funereal mysticism, astrology, medievalism and pictorial symbolism. Supported by Akira, Shin Yamazaki (ex-Lacrymosa) and Yuko Suzuki, the formation adopted the unlikely name: Trembling Strain. With the help from other like-minded musicians, Pneuma & Co indulged in exotic exercises of color and space. Their appetite for trans-cultural combinations collated luscious mirages with Asian, Middle Eastern, African, medieval and Brazilian instruments. The results of this concoction are usually more than the sum of the parts and occasionally Trembling Strain added to the shortlist of the most accomplished ethnic atmospherics.