The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music

In this episode we’re going to sample some of the early recordings of trance music from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Before Trance was absorbed into what is also called Electronic Dance Music, it rose up in Germany, specifically Frankfurt, and was put together by electronic musicians, some of whom were also sometimes DJs.

I have found a number of vintage and more recent recordings of electronic music that deal with the ups and downs of being in love. I have curated these for your listening pleasure.

There is a hidden seam of recordings in my archive of electronic music intended for babies which I am presenting here. It is also a great excuse to share with you some unique electronic music produced by one of the founding fathers of ambient and sequenced electronic sounds, Raymond Scott.

This podcast is the second of two parts on tape music from Canada. In this episode we cover the period from 1974 to 1992 with representative sounds from women and men composers.

This podcast is the first of two parts on electronic music from Canada. In this episode, we cover the early era spanning the years 1955 to 1972 and the women and men who composed music on magnetic tape.

For this episode, I’ve created a sound collage by remixing fragments of audio tracks from a selection of educational and instructional records found in my archive. Most of the recordings are from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

This podcast is the second of a two-part series in which we’re listening to examples of electronic keyboards in jazz. In this episode, we’ll begin around the time of the Fender Rhodes and explore various keyboards up until 1979 which is capped by the use of a wide variety of analog synthesizers.

This episode is the first of two parts covering the use of electronic keyboards in jazz. This part covers the early history of recordings from 1938 to the late sixties. Seven such instruments went out of fashion in jazz as the electronic organ and piano gained popularity. These included the Hammond Novachord, the Ondes Martenot, the Hammond Solovox, Lowrey Organo, Ondioline, Electr

Field recordings provide fascinating source material for electroacoustic music. For this episode, I searched the Archive for sound effects and the captured sounds of automobiles, trucks, motorcycles and scooters, plus ambient street sounds from various cities I’ve visited and remixed it all into a soundscape around motoring.

For this episode, we’re going to immerse ourselves in the mysterious ambiance of radio broadcasts. We will feature works by Aki Onda, a sound artist from Japan, plus my first electronic work for radio sounds dating from 1973.