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This one I love as well
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Somehow reminded me of the humor in Queen’s I want to break free… 
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Yeah… kinda evoque a bit of the same vibe 
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Seems like a perfect segue to this one
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This one too
I guess that would leave to the inevitable result…
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My new artist discovery of today: Maya Shenfeld
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Ah Marc Almond with his biggest hit ?
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Or Quiet Riot with theirs…
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Nice find! Of course this calls for Soft Cell here, too 
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The later 70s…a transitional period…
Pierre Shaeffer’s student Jean-Michel Jarre brought (instrumental) electronic music into the mainstream with Oxygène (1976) and Equinoxe (1978)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Pt. 4
But there where many contemporal (and earlier) pioneers like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Isao Tomita, Klaus Schulze and others.
Tangerine Dream explored new boundaries with their iconic Phaedra (1974) and Rubycon (1975) albums. Achieving major record sales and popularity without being played on radio.
Tangerine Dream | Phaedra (1974)
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon (1975)
Ex-Tangerine drummer Klaus Schulze developed his own style with Moondawn (1976). Although on this and other albums he left the drumming to Harald Grosskopf.
Klaus Schulze - Floating (1976)
And here’s Klaus Schulze doing a Live gig in the German WDR studio in 1977. The WDR (West Deutsche Rundfunk, West German Radio) was one of the first major studios investing in electronic music from the fifties onward (e.g. with Karl Heinz Stockhausen).
Klaus Schulze Live - WDR Köln 1977
In the same year, 1977, Giorgio Moroder changed pop music forever with Donna Summer
DONNA SUMMER I feel love 1977 HD and HQ
In America, Patrick Cowley brought the synthesizer into the gay disco/dance scene collaborating with Sylvester. Spawning a new genre: hi-NRG. He passed away a few years later in 1982 as one of the early victims of AIDS.
Patrick Cowley and Sylvester - I Need Somebody To Love Tonight (1979)
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Great stuff! The last half of the 70’s was the golden age of electronic music - fight me
Irrlicht, Zeit, Cyborg where the avant garde (not the pioneers), X was the culmination point and Audentity the retrospect. 
Yeah, and even after all these decades, still recognizable and unique. Watching him here, at a Live performance, many decades later. Here he teams up with Lisa Gerrard (of Dead Can Dance fame). Powerful, beautiful.
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Another german synthesizer pioneer, Eberhard Schoener in cooperation with The Police and the “Tölzer Knabenchor” choir. Saw this live as a teenager in 1977, after the show Eberhard Schoener was very approachable and showed us 16 year olds his modular Moog and the Oberheim. First time I had seen such instruments up close.
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And still…after decades of interest in electronic music and its history…new pioneers keep popping up. I have to look into Eberhard Schöner!
That must have made quite an impression! I guess so…since you’re currently on a modular synthesizer forum…
Rad hadn’t seen this clip before!
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