Cybotron - Colossus (1977)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Steve Maxwell Von Braund - Return To Monster Planet (2020)
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Geoff Green - Exodus to Genesis (2022)
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Cybotron, not to be confused with the American group, was an electronic/experimental music band from Australia formed in 1975 by Steve Maxwell Von Braund and Geoff Green. The band was formed after the release of Braund's 1975 album, 'Monster Planet' which Green contributed to; along with Gil Matthews (Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs), Henry Vyhnal and Jim Keays (The Masters Apprentices).
Cybotron released a self-titled album in 1976 containing mainly synthesizers and saxophone. Stylistically, Cybotron were similar to their contemporaries; innovative bands such as Ash Ra Tempel, Hawkwind and Tangerine Dream. They were creating minimalist, repetitive electronica at the same time that Kraftwerk released Autobahn. Today their music is still played around the world and is positively received, albeit not commercially recognised.
In this video:
Steve Maxwell Von Braund - synthesiser, electronic percussion, alto saxophone
Geoff Green - keyboard, organ, synthesiser
Colin Butcher - drums, percussion, synthesiser (1977-1978) 
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Have both the albums bought in Melbourne I'm 70 now and still thrash them saw them playing a few times live ===brilliant
They were so ahead of their time. Their 80's stuff is the best, timeless yet nostalgic. awesome.
My favorite part was the video wobble artifact at 2:03. Having grown up watching VHS bootlegs until they degraded to unviewable noise, that sound is pure magic to my ears.
@@A5PEN-W0LF Thanks for the info. But if we are quibbling over 11 year old youtube comments... you are countering an assertion that was never made. VHS was merely mentioned as being the inspiration for my nostalgic appreciation of wow and flutter artifacts.
my favorite snippet too!
Yeah man, that's how you do it. You go in gong first.
Hi all. I've added some captions to the Cybotron videos to ensure everyone is aware of the latest works of co-founders Steve Maxwell Von Braund and Geoff Green. I'll be keeping them there for the rest of 2023 as I think it provides a historical undertone, but happy to hear suggestions for a better way if too many people find the captions annoying.
Also in the description, here are the links for both Braund and Green's latest works:
Steve Maxwell Von Braund - Return To Monster Planet (2020)
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Geoff Green - Exodus to Genesis (2022)
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Also, I''m more than happy to hear from other members/related to other members if they, too, have new works out. All members deserve to be celebrated.
Hi all. I am pleased to announce that Geoff Green's solo album, and the first publically released work since 1976, is now out on all streaming platforms. I hope you enjoy Exodus to Genesis: open.spotify.com/album/1cmx0p4YRvoa9NaTNQKFhY?si=-CCZSmz6TICjoOxPAyUbbQ
i had two of cybotrons albums....have never got over the music....awesome and surreal
this track is my faorite tho i know it goes for longer than 3 minutes..
I loved Cybotron synth music from the heady 70-80s. Strangely meditative.
They more than lived up to the name, Cybotron. Great job.
i just bought their first vinyl from a thrift shop yesterday for $55. it's in good condition and i feel pretty good about it
how is that a thrift shop?
Just great these guys were ahead of their time...
Absolutely awesomeness bloody master piece if I say so myself
One of the best songs ever recorded
It does recall PF's Live at Pompei (1972), yeah!
Drummer looks like Brian Eno, Johnny Winter and one of the Schenker bros had a multidonor love child raised in Xanadu. And that key change at 2:03 - glorious!
Great tune really :)
@shazzatpm you can tell your dad that his music is trully amazing and still inspiring for the new generation (23y here). cheers from portugal!
This is GREAT !!!!
Wow this is actually a pretty interesting band compared to the America band we all know. Cool tune.
Thanks, Aaron :)
I bought two of their CDs some 20 years ago. I find them sounding more like Frenchies Ange, Clearlight/Cyrille Verdeaux, Pulsar, Heldon/Richard Pinhas, Catharsis and even Space. Also somewhat like French/UK band Gong, led by fellow Aussie Daevid Allen (who died a year ago), as well as - of course - 70s Hawkwind and Tim Blake (ex-Hawkwind, ex-Gong) solo back in the day.
Great stuff, and a big THANK YOU to you, Mr. shazzatpm!
At first, I thought this was the Gibb brothers finally getting their act together.
reminds me of floyd's live at pompeii
nice wild beasts, these guys! :)
Love
E P I C . ...and the glimpses of Aussie suburbia i.t. background almost transport it into a parallel universe...
Live at Pompeii.
dopest thing ive ever heard in my life
You what?
I was looking for american Techno artist Cybotron, but this also sounds good.
I'll ask my dad (Geoff Green) if he knows of the gearlist when I go home next. Cheers!
What a great band, my friend!
Its a Great electrónics álbum
Stunning stuff
@jacobkay There's also a Farfisa Organ and two Mini Korg 700, which you can hear clearly towards the end, playing some bass notes. Yes, I am a sad synth nerd :-)
Mighty and Majestic
Wow !!!! can't believe my eyes. I was looking for Cybotron for my facebook group but never imagined to find a video-clip ! I first airplayed them on chilean fm radio back in 1983 and then almost weekly at Futuro Fm. Surely Cybotron has remained a TOP band for me and am glad technology is helping promote this part of the australian music. Chris Neal and Charles Wain (Groover Myers - who scored Peter Weir's THE LAST WAVE) are also among my aussie faves :) 3 thumbs up.
yo los escuche en los años ochenta en la radio concierto
Well, that ruled.
fantastic music
INCREDIBLE
Very cool stuff! I was in a couple prog rock bands from the early 80's through the early 90's and . . . most people know that was THE WORST time to try to make it as a prog rock band, especially in the USA. :-/
Great stuff.Sounds like Tangerine Dream,Pink Floyd and Polish band SBB.
props for the vynil records aligned saying CYBOTRON
i used to work with the drummer . awesome guy.
Carlo Guevarra same hes a top bloke
what was the job?
As far as the band is concerned, all of the material is outstanding, no exceptions!! Okay?!
Thanks for the uploads, shazzatpm!
Woow😊
live in pompeii was filmed in 1972, this video is from 1977. Thus, Pink Floyd stuff is earlier.
Mag-effin-nificent
Cybertron was one Atkins too Detroit missing home of house music get it real that's how we do it we number one
@WolfgangAmadeusF
i had two of these albums on vinyl years ago and have never forgotten the music awesome and surreal....now i am looking to buy the three albums they made...not having much luck tho...
ethellred
Damn, like watching a Hong Kong kung fu film
If not a video, at least some clip with Medusa. It's a great track and it would be nice to post it on Tube.
Great stuff. I've found one album (Colossus) on emusic - it'd be great if Implosion and Cybotron could also be listed...
2:38, the sax groove blasts in...
Best Video
epic.
Hey everyone!
I noticed yesterday that Australia's youth, alternate station, Triple J, has listed Cybotron's most popular album, Colossus, on the shortlist of Australia's Top 100 albums.
If you guys could take a little time and head to abc.net.au/triplej/hottest100/alltime/11/ and click C and vote 'Cybotron -Colossus', it would mean the world to me and my dad, Geoff Green.
Cheers guys. Peace. x
the link does not work because it's been 12 years man
fuck yeah \m/
Great!
I'd love to hear a metal band cover it too ;p
@minimomaximo Yeah, I have been meaning to. I do have all three albums complete. I believe there are a couple of torrents now around. I doubt my dad would care, as he is well aware of the internet's impact on royalties and whatnot. I'm visiting him tomorrow so I will ask him then!
We were actually contemplating making an official website.
never today would I allow my Synths to be roasting like that in the desert heat
Hmmmm.... I wonder of they ever saw Live At Pompeii?? hehe
@rosieanneliese Their 80's stuff? The band disbanded in 1980; the last album was released in 1980, Implosion ,but did not consist of the classic line-up. Are you sure you are not confused with the US band, Cybotron, which came to prominence in the 80's?
Great song of the great times... There wer no DJs, no "PressButton" players, no sh+t... Just synthesizers, ideas, feelings and playing abilities...
I never expected to see what I see here. From the makers of "Clear" wow haha
Ok Update; Wrong Cybotron
handsome guys!
Hé, mais c'est d'la balle !
The videos I posted are the only three filmed.
rad.
@shazzatpm im pretty sure rosie is, many people get the two confused.
Good
Wonders if M83 knew about this when he made Midnight City....
Ben B no comparison dude...
Sweet Jesus...
@minimomaximo Do you mean putting up the studio versions of songs onto RUclips?
A video of them? They never recorded a ivdeo for Medusa.
Psicodelia Floydiana em excesso . Marcaram época numa Alemanha dividida .
a 2:04. i really miss that in the old beta and vhs
I could not see the entire PA system setup in this video. Is it quadraphonic by chance?
The old Melbourne gas works
Where was this filmed, Melbourne?
Yep!
I was born in 1977
that sound system ahahahah
smells like OLD BOOKS
Would you be so kind and post Medusa?
South Melbourne Gas Plant, Albert Park
Awesome retro electronica! I have the albums Cybotron, Colossus and Implosion. Can anyone tell me where this footage was shot?
1012egg i work with the drummer. it was shot in Melbourne. If you want more specifics i can ask him.
There is some resemblance with Pink Floyd, yes. Still, Cybotron is GREAT !
wierd...kinda cool...
I think he's implying the electro-music scene...
@shazzatpm Well I like both then ;p
Daft Punk should do a remix :)
All they need is a Guitar and There goes Muse :)))///]]
i need some new pants... :O
Capodopera
good stuff, shame about the saxophone though
;-)
Visually it looks like a plagiarism of Pink Floyd live in Pompeii
Rhizosphere do you know which petroleum depot exactly?
@Rhizosphere Greek? Pompeii is fully Roman period!
Visually it is very much copied from PInk Floyd at Pompej...
too long to get to the chorus, lol
Acoustics and mixing are bad. This cut was better then the last 2.
Dreadful
cybotron band rul3z, we need more