Me too !! My first concert was KRAFTWERK in 1975, Birmingham. These guys are closer to Tangerine Dream. Good stuff.Me too !! My first concert was KRAFTWERK in 1975, Birmingham. These guys are closer to Tangerine Dream. Good stuff.
Fantastic Tim Blake, from Crystal Machine to Gong to Hawkwind and back…such an excellent musicnaut, bonjour Tim, C’est Karl a partir ile de Jersie ,merci pour la musique.
That's just what the technology lends itself to. Much of this style of music tends towards demonstration of equipment capabilities more than composition per se, hence the need to adopt the latest tech in order to stay relevant...
Man, I love synthesizers!!!! My dad gave me my 1st one back in the 80's and I've never looked back.i will always love traditional guitar, bass and drums of hard rock/heavy metal but the synthesizer is about the most versatile instrument out there and I can take my 4/5 synthesizers my drum machine a sequencer and mixing board and boom!!!! I'm a one man band!!!!!
I always loved that album from 1979. Loved Tim's sound combined with Huw Lloyd Langton's guitar. For some reason Tim's sound richness didn't get enough onto Levitation the following studio album. Maybe something about playing live.
@@davebellamy4867 yeah best experienced live with a laser show,for sure. I'm a drummer so it was good to see ginger baker playing live with Hawkwind,lthough I hear he didn't really fit in too well. I remember him having a fight with Roy Harper at Glasto one year on the main stage. He played his set with blood gushing down his face..gotta laugh,innit?
If you wish to hear more of this style search Berlin School. The Berlin School is a style of electronic music that emerged in the 1970s, and is an offshoot of Krautrock, and is still going strong now.
There's something missing..... Tim Blake isn't wearing a cape. The world needs more capes. And a few more laser tunnels wouldn't go amiss either. Amazing stuff!
Puiki muzika, norint mėgautis gera tailandietiška virtuve jaukiame ir skoningai įrengtame restorane! Žinoma, klausykite saikingai ir gerbkite įprastus atstumus
so so happy to see this piece of excellence in such high quality, thank you so much for not only sharing it with us but also for giving us “a way out” so to speak. (or maybe in?..)
Melodically, this live recording is less clearly defined than the recording that was frozen on the album. It almost sounds like a long solo, with occasional notes foreshadowing the album track, as if this live had been recorded before the record, when the idea wasn't yet fully defined. But it's a nice recording, and unfortunately we don't have much from that period.
@@joligrunlaub3412 The main difference is in the melodic line, it is less defined than the version that is on the record (and was a live too ? I don't remember).
Hmmm...sounds like a different version of "Synthese Intemporelle". I can hear some of the "head", similar root movement...but WAY better audio quality than the Egg version. Tim Blake's stuff has been a fave of mine for...hmm...well, I first heard Gong back around 1977 on import LPs, so 2024 - 1977 comes out to a couple of years shy of half a century! You've gotta know how to do music right for it to have those kinds of "legs". Also VERY cool to see Patrice Warrener's side of Crystal Machine for the first time. The first LP's cover only gives a hint of what the visuals really were like. Truly brilliant stuff...it definitely calls for MOAR! 👍👍
This actually does look as though it was played live which is a lot more than can be said for a lot of electronic artists of the time (looking at you JMJ!).
Never understood the ”magic” of live gigs, there’s a lot of other bothersome people waving their hands and shouting, the music is so loud that all I hear is distorted sounds if you’re unlucky you have to stand for 2 hours straight. What is so magical looking at a trained circus monkey wiggling his fingers?
@@RickardMattson very much depends on the venue. I've seen a few bands at the Manchester Apollo, and it's acoustically a very good venue, it's also not too large, so is quite intimate. It's my favourite venue. If I go to see a band live then I do expect to see them play live. There's a tension when it comes to the solos, especially if they are playing something intricate. There's a chance they'll make a mistake either small or large, and the audiences is willing them on, and hanging on every note. You don't get that when it's mimed. There's no tension when you know exactly what it's going to sound like. I guess watching a trained circus monkey wiggling his fingers is better than watching an untrained circus monkey wiggling his fingers pretending to play. To be fair to Jean Michel Jarre his mega concerts probably couldn't have been played live as there were so many things that could have screwed up. Also a lot of his music isn't really designed to be played live, with a great deal of it sequenced on old analogue synths. I have quite a lot of analogue and modular synths and they're a pain to use in a live situation. You have to tune them, and the tuning is liable to drift. A lot have no patch memories, so you have to program in each sound (which in a live situation would be a nightmare). It's one of the reasons Rick Wakeman has at least 2 Minimoogs on stage. I'm not keen on gigging but when I do I take a trusty digital workstation synth, because I know that's not going to crap out on me.
@@julianguffogg I was given a copy of Camembert by a colleague when I started work in 1977. It was a bit tatty then but I still have and treasure it. It was my introduction to Gong. I miss Daevid and Gilli but the current incarnation of the band are still awesome. Gong est mort. Viva Gong 🫖🕉️
The lead synths sounds exactly like C64 SiD, but it took 8 years to make SiD sound like this. Before it was just simple chip music, until a few talented musicians started to create art sounding comparable to this music.
This must be a chronological link between the Dick Hyman “Moog” and “Switched on Bach” albums of my childhood and the Tangerine Dream/Kraftwerk material of the ‘80’s.
I think you meant mid to late 70s leading into 80s. Most of my Kraftwerk albums are late 70s. My friend had the Tangerine Dream albums and they were of the same vintage. Not saying their 80s stuff wasn’t awesome just thinking that using them as examples they started earlier. Good to get that hat tip to them as well, so glad to see them mentioned, so thanks for doing that!
@@PaulBoos that was my reaction too. It's strange when bands get time-shifted. Happens a lot with The Police - a lot of people don't think of them as a 70s band but they were a leading light in 70s New Wave.
For 1978 this is massive... how have I never seen this before.
Me too !! My first concert was KRAFTWERK in 1975, Birmingham. These guys are closer to Tangerine Dream. Good stuff.Me too !! My first concert was KRAFTWERK in 1975, Birmingham. These guys are closer to Tangerine Dream. Good stuff.
Это и 2024г. ,грандиозно!
I was 7 in 78. I only remember coal and power cuts. Wow.
You must be British like me then!
The sound of the 70's is magic forever. When hearing this sound I feel happy ; this gives a good feeling.
Never heard this. Berlin School magic.
No no noooooo my friend, this is Tim Blake, coming from Gong. with Patrice Warrener, frendh musician........English frenchised stuff.....😂😂
Really delicious pulsating sounds, that feel like precious jewels on a mountain.
Fantastic Tim Blake, from Crystal Machine to Gong to Hawkwind and back…such an excellent musicnaut, bonjour Tim, C’est Karl a partir ile de Jersie ,merci pour la musique.
Saw him close out Glastonbury .. think it was 79 .. awesome
Nice and Hammer mega wow👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧I never heard before that music of him
Tim Blake-cosmic trip master.
Wow! 1978? Incredible!
Gorgeous synth textures. Thanks for posting this treasure!♥️
You're not kidding.
pure analogue nice
Sounds like Tangerine Dream.
A lot!
Yes .. check out "Klaus Schulze Live - WDR Köln 1977"
That's just what the technology lends itself to. Much of this style of music tends towards demonstration of equipment capabilities more than composition per se, hence the need to adopt the latest tech in order to stay relevant...
I agree
During their 'virgin records' era.
Long live Planet GONG. this music taught me so much about texture. Thank you Tim Blake.
Had the LP forever. How have I not seen this clip until now!! Love TimBlake's sonic landscapes!
This reminds me of that one time
Man, I love synthesizers!!!! My dad gave me my 1st one back in the 80's and I've never looked back.i will always love traditional guitar, bass and drums of hard rock/heavy metal but the synthesizer is about the most versatile instrument out there and I can take my 4/5 synthesizers my drum machine a sequencer and mixing board and boom!!!! I'm a one man band!!!!!
Ao tocar uma tecla de cada vez ...me lembra Keith Emerson ao vivo ....tocando Moog ,do engenheiro Moog
I love Tim Blake!
❤. Awesome! Had the privilege of seeing Tim perform this and New Jerusalem during a Hawkwind set in 79. Brings back great memories!!!
first saw Tim with Hawkwind in 79 at Southampton , i've got his autograph on an old tenner , with Dave Brocks on the B side lol
I always loved that album from 1979. Loved Tim's sound combined with Huw Lloyd Langton's guitar. For some reason Tim's sound richness didn't get enough onto Levitation the following studio album. Maybe something about playing live.
@@thekierongiles ha ha! A tenner was a lot of money back then!
@@davebellamy4867 yeah best experienced live with a laser show,for sure. I'm a drummer so it was good to see ginger baker playing live with Hawkwind,lthough I hear he didn't really fit in too well. I remember him having a fight with Roy Harper at Glasto one year on the main stage. He played his set with blood gushing down his face..gotta laugh,innit?
I knew it was going to sound like this ❤
I can hear the unmistakable sounds of the EMS synthi/VCS3 😊
Cool to see this. I always wanted to see Tim Blake live.
Having all his contemporaries music, 'tis nice to find another electronic musician to investigate.
Absolutely fantastic!
Tim Blake... yes. This is epic. Thank you for uploading!
Tangerine Dream were not alone, evidently. Very well improvised!
If you wish to hear more of this style search Berlin School.
The Berlin School is a style of electronic music that emerged in the 1970s, and is an offshoot of Krautrock, and is still going strong now.
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460exactly!
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460yep, one the best genres! Steve Moore's track, "Frigia" is a more modern take. It's super good if you wanna check it out.
I was born in September of 1978. Somehow all my favorite music uses this year like the center of a compass, I love this!
January 4th 1978 here; was always happy too because i like how the numbers *1978* look
Io sono nato il 4 luglio 1978 invece ...... ❤
pretty amazing. Live performance is always magic!!!
also legged clock counter!!!
Wow! I love this!
Love the analog sounds and some Berlin School to boot!
Thank you moonweed for sharing :)
''and we'll build a new Jerusalem......with looooove........... from me to you!'' Tim Blake brilliant!!
Brilliant! Sounds goods, looks cool.
*All surviving band members are now blind. 😎
Did they get blind because of lasers or of age?
@@FuriousCommunist I joke, comrade! I joke! 😉
All say it was worth it
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😎
Love Tim, love Gong! Do it now! 😉😍
FANTASTIC ANALOG HEAVEN ❤❤❤🎉😊jaffa Jenkins Dawless jams 🎉
This is brilliant!!!!
Wow ! This is so awesome! Thank you for sharing your awesome new music 🎶. Super well played and presented. Mark Bensette Aux Bois 🇨🇦.
Hardly new music!
God those filtersweeps i am kneeling 😮
a fabulous clip thanks
Das war unsere Zeit! DER Aufbruch ins "space-Zeitalter"! Die Lasershow ist heute noch geil!
There's something missing..... Tim Blake isn't wearing a cape.
The world needs more capes. And a few more laser tunnels wouldn't go amiss either. Amazing stuff!
This is a treat.😊
beautiful ❤
Wonderful !!!
Awesome!
they say a million C64 game soundtracks were inspired that night....
C64 powstalo wiele pozniej
@@marekk1337 I said "inspired", my dude, not composed.
Classic berlin school!
Ii've been doing around with synthesiser since 1971, but never heares from!
Great!
Que viagem boa !
Muito obrigado por proporcionar esse som 👉🏻👍🏻
Very cool. Will check out this group deeper
please more of this....
Un autre monde musical, que du bonheur. Cela dynamise.
What an upload!!!! Priceless gem
Reminds me of timewind -Klaus Schulze
Great!!!
🌻🌾💛💙🎷🎵🎼🔮Gloire à la France et à ses musiciens !
¡Me encanta Tim Blake!
This is art, not idiots on a stage with a laptop.
Wooooooooow
Puiki muzika, norint mėgautis gera tailandietiška virtuve jaukiame ir skoningai įrengtame restorane! Žinoma, klausykite saikingai ir gerbkite įprastus atstumus
Wow!!!!!👍creative improvisation
Given enough airplay, this will be huge
Live this 🧡
Dobre!
so so happy to see this piece of excellence in such high quality, thank you so much for not only sharing it with us but also for giving us “a way out” so to speak. (or maybe in?..)
Wow thank you love it ❤
Top seventies track 👌🤙👍🫶
Sweet
Melodically, this live recording is less clearly defined than the recording that was frozen on the album. It almost sounds like a long solo, with occasional notes foreshadowing the album track, as if this live had been recorded before the record, when the idea wasn't yet fully defined. But it's a nice recording, and unfortunately we don't have much from that period.
It's hard to to turn all the knobs and keys simultaneously. So a studio version may be more versatile.
@@joligrunlaub3412 The main difference is in the melodic line, it is less defined than the version that is on the record (and was a live too ? I don't remember).
Hmmm...sounds like a different version of "Synthese Intemporelle". I can hear some of the "head", similar root movement...but WAY better audio quality than the Egg version.
Tim Blake's stuff has been a fave of mine for...hmm...well, I first heard Gong back around 1977 on import LPs, so 2024 - 1977 comes out to a couple of years shy of half a century! You've gotta know how to do music right for it to have those kinds of "legs".
Also VERY cool to see Patrice Warrener's side of Crystal Machine for the first time. The first LP's cover only gives a hint of what the visuals really were like.
Truly brilliant stuff...it definitely calls for MOAR! 👍👍
Very Tangerine Dream-esque = I love it.
sii sii el comodore y el Amstrad...pero no os dais cuenta que esto es una joya un regalo de los cielos
Late 70s laser light shows looked fantastic. More bands should carry lasers and smoke machines as part of the production.
My neighbours have gone through enough tho :(
🎹MighTy cooOL! 🎹🎶
💙💫bon souvenir 💦
Still waiting for the beat to drop in 2024
Wasn’t Tim Blake also a member of Hawkwind ever so briefly? I think I saw his name on the credits of the ‘Levitation’ album…
Thats right and on more albums.
Try "the lighthouse" from Tim on a Hawkwind live album.
Awsome!
Wow!!!!!
He is also associated with Gong and Hawkwind!
Hi T Moonweed 🕉️🫖😊
Cela me rappelle Tangerine Dream.
3:40...🎷🎶🎵🎶🎵🐍
Wow. A rival to stratosfear at last. Is there an album ?!
There were two albums:
1. Crystal Machine & 2. Blake's New Jerusalem
It has lasers and everything!
This actually does look as though it was played live which is a lot more than can be said for a lot of electronic artists of the time (looking at you JMJ!).
JMJ - France's greatest mime artiste.
Never understood the ”magic” of live gigs, there’s a lot of other bothersome people waving their hands and shouting, the music is so loud that all I hear is distorted sounds if you’re unlucky you have to stand for 2 hours straight. What is so magical looking at a trained circus monkey wiggling his fingers?
@@RickardMattson very much depends on the venue. I've seen a few bands at the Manchester Apollo, and it's acoustically a very good venue, it's also not too large, so is quite intimate. It's my favourite venue.
If I go to see a band live then I do expect to see them play live. There's a tension when it comes to the solos, especially if they are playing something intricate. There's a chance they'll make a mistake either small or large, and the audiences is willing them on, and hanging on every note. You don't get that when it's mimed. There's no tension when you know exactly what it's going to sound like.
I guess watching a trained circus monkey wiggling his fingers is better than watching an untrained circus monkey wiggling his fingers pretending to play.
To be fair to Jean Michel Jarre his mega concerts probably couldn't have been played live as there were so many things that could have screwed up. Also a lot of his music isn't really designed to be played live, with a great deal of it sequenced on old analogue synths. I have quite a lot of analogue and modular synths and they're a pain to use in a live situation. You have to tune them, and the tuning is liable to drift. A lot have no patch memories, so you have to program in each sound (which in a live situation would be a nightmare). It's one of the reasons Rick Wakeman has at least 2 Minimoogs on stage. I'm not keen on gigging but when I do I take a trusty digital workstation synth, because I know that's not going to crap out on me.
Camembert electrique?
Tim Blake did actually work with Gong, and many other bands, but was not part of the Gong line up in 1971 when Camembert electrique was recorded.
Tim`s favourite GONG album, and he isnt even on it !!!
@@julianguffogg I was given a copy of Camembert by a colleague when I started work in 1977. It was a bit tatty then but I still have and treasure it. It was my introduction to Gong. I miss Daevid and Gilli but the current incarnation of the band are still awesome.
Gong est mort. Viva Gong 🫖🕉️
The Gong guy
This is what lasers sound like
The lead synths sounds exactly like C64 SiD, but it took 8 years to make SiD sound like this. Before it was just simple chip music, until a few talented musicians started to create art sounding comparable to this music.
WoWoWoWoWoWoW
With so many switches and dials to deal with, how does the keyboard guy know where to find the on/off switch?
Sounds like Baumann/Koek - GREAT!
Tim Blake, ex hawkwind,
The use of arpeggios here definitely smacks of Tangerine dream. Yet, I can't help hearing some Pink Floyd influence. Welcome to the Crystal Machine...
🤯🤟
Rainbow Rising?
Does anybody know what sort of laser that is?
This must be a chronological link between the Dick Hyman “Moog” and “Switched on Bach” albums of my childhood and the Tangerine Dream/Kraftwerk material of the ‘80’s.
I think you meant mid to late 70s leading into 80s. Most of my Kraftwerk albums are late 70s. My friend had the Tangerine Dream albums and they were of the same vintage.
Not saying their 80s stuff wasn’t awesome just thinking that using them as examples they started earlier. Good to get that hat tip to them as well, so glad to see them mentioned, so thanks for doing that!
@@PaulBoos that was my reaction too. It's strange when bands get time-shifted. Happens a lot with The Police - a lot of people don't think of them as a 70s band but they were a leading light in 70s New Wave.
@@unclemick-synths let’s do the time warp again…. It’s just a jump to the left…
Sounds like extended versions of some music by Styx.👍
Wie heißt bitte dieses Lied? Und von wem ist es?
If Tron were in the same universe as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable
Hipdiscowave?