My theory is the members of Silver Apples had to be time travelers.

@72daystar

4 жыл бұрын

@Charlie Hufft To jokingly call them time travelers is to imply their originality.

@DonnachaDeLong

4 жыл бұрын

@Charlie Hufft Sadly people like them and Suicide get far too little credit compared to Kraftwerk. I remember seeing a BBC thing that described Soft Cell as band who pioneered the singer and tech geek thing, which is totally ridiculous as Marc Almond was a huge Suicide fan when Soft Cell started and there's a BBC video of him doing a cover of Ghost Rider (with Clint Ruin AKA Foetus AKA Jim Thirlwell).

@dchapero6929

3 жыл бұрын

Still hilarious.

@elot83

3 жыл бұрын

Negative hip hop made it

@williampena197

3 жыл бұрын

It sounds like someone is revving up a time machine, when I listen to this it makes me think of parallel universes.

Someone's grandma is gorgeous

@GJ-dj4jx

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha Good one

@pablosantander5739

4 жыл бұрын

Sisi

@0patience4flz

3 жыл бұрын

@Felix Fox very good....🏆...the trial

@bloodsweatandbeers9670

2 жыл бұрын

😆

A rare instance of a new music genre arriving on the scene too early. But that drum groove is has an oddly modern "programmed drum" feel that you get on a lot of 80's electronic music and the recent synthwave/retrowave subgenres.

@diogeneslantern18

2 жыл бұрын

Directly influenced Portishead. We Carry On is an homage to this song

@clurgee4923

2 жыл бұрын

sounds very krautrock-ish too

@marasmusine

Жыл бұрын

Oscillations came up in a 60s playlist yesterday and I can't believe this is the first I heard of this band. I could not believe this was from the 60s. Incredibe in stereo. It's a shame about the Pan Am thing, who knows what more influence SA could have had.

@en16ma_music

Жыл бұрын

It's known as "motorik" and is meant to sound like a machine chugging along!

@kelechi_77

2 ай бұрын

@@en16ma_music Which is crazy since this was years before German bands like CAN, Kraftwerk and NEU! would coin the motorik in the first place, these guys were so ahead of the game

One of the coolest songs and imagery to go with it. If this doesn’t make you fall in love with psychedelic 60s futurism, nothing will.

Ah yes, my favourite instrument, the Microwave

@tiffytattoo2450

4 жыл бұрын

This comment made my whole day xD

@megwinski

4 жыл бұрын

@@tiffytattoo2450 the same thing just happened to me today!

@Tronky3000

4 жыл бұрын

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

@MasthaX

4 жыл бұрын

It's called a magnetron, and it's not an oscillator.

@balu89

3 жыл бұрын

@@MasthaX you must be fun at parties

Bought this LP in a bargain bin about 1970. Still have it. Best song on the album

@davidbussell7799

8 ай бұрын

I bought it in the bargain bin too. Along with Apple Tree Theatre and Lumpy Gravy.

The fact that I just discovered this about five minutes ago depresses me. It's incredible!

@RainbowLayer92

4 жыл бұрын

This is me, but six years later.

@SkyeMpuremagic

4 жыл бұрын

@@RainbowLayer92 Same

@infinitive7654

4 жыл бұрын

Why don't you just feel grateful that you found this at all? There's an alternate dimension where you never even knew that this existed. Regret porn is not it.

@priyas.8141

4 жыл бұрын

I discovered this about six months ago, I'm glad.

@paulkelly5517

4 жыл бұрын

Thats me...NOW. 40 years old and teach music and production for a living...shame on me.

In 1968, a group of stoned hippies were freaking tf out to this while wondering if they were dying or ascending.

@ElrondHubbard_1

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a bad trip machine to me... i guess you'd have try it to find out.

@Witchesofbapho

Ай бұрын

Why not both

@FabianMacGintyONeill

Ай бұрын

I'm doing the exact same thing to this now

R.I.P Simeon Coxe 1938 - 2020 You were a legend

@Truckngirl

2 жыл бұрын

I've been listening to Silver Apples for a few months and didn't realize that Simeon had also passed. Thank you for letting us know...

whoa. having been a fan of electronic music since i was a kid i can't believe i'm just discovering this group.

@sweetpurple8812

3 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hXeLtMyQf9Ldm8Y.html

One of the best songs from 60's and most inovative..

Read somewhere that even Kraftwerk cited this as an influence. That's good enough for me...

@marguskiis7711

3 жыл бұрын

Probably all the kraut rock scene.

I can see the futuristic aspect but this sounds very 1960s still. The percussion style, BPM, their vocals, the sound of their electronic equipment.

@davorcihak7330

3 жыл бұрын

This sounds like a second wave of Detroit techno (1987-late 90's) with psychedelic vocals. Melodic instruments are very repetitive and disturbing, like something Jeff Mills would do.

@valeriofabbroni8212

3 жыл бұрын

@@davorcihak7330 Don't know how to begin with her: The sound of their electronic equipment is so '60s. In Latin there's something like consecutio temporum that seems to be a bit neglected nowadays, too many Gigabyte at a time could be a little disturbing.

@chouchoue

2 жыл бұрын

They probably wanted to still sell records so they kept it regular. I still think it's pretty fetch. The drums are great. It's just the singer is a bit on the dull side. Not robotic enough and not emotional either.

@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614

2 жыл бұрын

@@chouchoue really? I love his voice. Very folky which makes for an interesting contrast to the music.

@chouchoue

2 жыл бұрын

@@oompaloompadoompa-de-doo3614 I researched band + after this. He says he singed that way because the oscillators being unpredictable tuning. Then I learned percussion have pitch & tuning also! Which I suspected but didn't know (no music education). I understand now. All I could hear was how tuneless he was (now it seems it was on purpose). Anyway, I appreciate that they innovated. Maybe this lead to Kraftwerk's Man Machine. Which is more for me.

This band and Ultimate Spinach were my favorites back in the 60's. This is what real psychedelic music sounds like!

I don't know what it is about the drumming in this song, but it really speaks to my inner caveman, always makes me follow the beat with hands and feet

This is what I listen too sometimes when reality is boring and unsatisfying,which is a whooole lot lately.

@egoCSGO

4 жыл бұрын

How are you doing lately?

There was a Nathan For You episode where he needs a smoke detector to be featured in a song. These guys figured out how to do that

I used to work with Danny at NYNEX/Bell Atlantic. We used to talk on the phone quite a bit and he told me about it. I was really blown away.

I was first brought to this band by Portishead, but now they've acquired a whole new dimension to me. This is so beautiful. They were true pioneers and innovators. This album is great!

@tylerbolden6189

5 ай бұрын

I was first brought to Silver Apples by myself.

@salvatorescarcella7361

4 ай бұрын

It sounds so good that I first thought “someone” had taken inspiration from Portishead when I first listened to this song, then I checked the year it was released: totally mindblowed.

Oscillations, oscillations, Electronic evocations of sound's reality, Spinning, magnetic fluctuations, waves of wave configurations That dance between the poles off sound and bind my world to soul. I walk the streets of moment. Head down to the ground. Cars are stars remotely far. My only world is sound. Passersby are worlds that fly. Far from the dance of time. Time whirls round from pole to pole and swirls within the sound of Oscillations, oscillations Electronic evocations of sound's reality

@damoncarfagna6559

5 жыл бұрын

The lyrics are printed on the inner sleeve. Ive had them in my heart since i first felt them. It perfectly describes the nature in which life vibrates.

@almishti

Жыл бұрын

seeing them in print gives a new kind of chill up my spine

This is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard.

As a new obscure electronica artist, I'm doing some early pioneer education and am floored by how magical this is. The video too is absolutely amazing. This is art. 💗

The evolution of techno and hip-hop music comes to life here!

@autismatic

7 жыл бұрын

A lot of underground techno has a way more trippy psychedelic sound and atmosphere, not like those overprocessed mainstream radio friendly EDM shit that most people now sadly label as techno as well.

@unwelldanny7108

5 жыл бұрын

sounds like D&B, Toonami shit to me

@yeetyeetonthestreet-colinm1186

9 ай бұрын

@@autismaticlol fr, radio friendly EDM techno is the worst

So it seems that by 1968 you had pretty much everything - techno/ambient (Silver Apples), proto-black metal (Cromagnon), proto-punk/noise rock (Sonics/MC5/Stooges) and on and on and on.

@MikeKiker

8 жыл бұрын

And it was all better off in it's proto stages then where it went.

@goodsirknight

8 жыл бұрын

+Ilya S counter-culture was the mainstream, drugs were legal, people were free and the future was bright.

@saintbabylon7250

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Kiker I agree man.

@saintbabylon7250

8 жыл бұрын

Even doom metal (Sleep/Om/Sun((O)) )

@MrAsaf1984

8 жыл бұрын

+Ilya S and most people will say "sixties were all about hippies and woodstock"...

RIP drummer Danny Taylor (1949-2005).

@Ratelzwatel

8 жыл бұрын

+cldmn25 Danny Taylor deserves much more attention as a drummer.

@aaronberns8485

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Simeon 1938-2020

This is the trippiest trip I've ever tripped over.

This has to be from 2068 not 1968 , right ?

This blows away the Beatles

@LeonFelixRusso

3 ай бұрын

No, it doesn't. They're both remarkable. There's this thing called 'perspective'.

@jasonpeters9716

3 ай бұрын

@@LeonFelixRusso Imo? And many others? Lol..yes it does Beatles= 🥱

@jasonpeters9716

3 ай бұрын

@@LeonFelixRusso"tomorrow never knows," only thing of importance Beatles did. "I am walrus" too

The fact that this is the first EDM song ever is impressive, even for its time. It sounds old, but it could also easily pass for a modern song *trying* to sound old. Its pretty inventive

@taniaarthur

2 жыл бұрын

no, it was the Dr who theme (1963)

@rryuna

2 жыл бұрын

@Tan Tan technically it isnt. This silver apples song is a mix between pop music, and electronic sounds, which makes edm. The doctor who theme is just electronic, it doesn’t contain any pop elements, I understand where you are coming from though

@jackjude

2 жыл бұрын

@@taniaarthur Maybe (given the poster's definition of EDM below) the Dr. Who theme has the first IDM tune.

@aegisraven1284

2 жыл бұрын

Industrial not edm thanks

@aegisraven1284

2 жыл бұрын

@@rryuna this is industrial not edm please educate yourself

It's amazing, ahead of it's time and a brilliant song... but does anyone else hear a man sing 'arse elations' over and over...?

@HeathbrookBadhwar

9 жыл бұрын

Oscillations

@TorrezVideo

9 жыл бұрын

Now I do. Damn you.

@idcaf

8 жыл бұрын

damn... now i do

@elninoelnino3846

5 жыл бұрын

Aah-xillations

@VyraJade

4 жыл бұрын

Are you British? Cause that's pretty funny😂

R.I.P. Simeon Coxe. I bought this album in 1968 and always loved the music. "Ahead of their time" is a cliche, but yes, these guys were. Beautiful music. Keep in mind that playing analog electronic music is EXTREMELY difficult. Making it beautiful is quite a feat.

@johntiggleman4686

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is. Tube based audio equipment had to warm up to be stable enough for this kind of production. Another superb example is the "soundtrack" to the excellent 1950s Sci-Fi movie "Forbidden Planet." The "tonalities" produced by Louis and Bebe Barron.

@bodhiapurva3887

2 жыл бұрын

Completely agree, this music has been carefully crafted by musicians who pioneered this type of unique sound generation and composed it all from scratch.

Wow, everything that you think started in the 80s and even 90s started in the 60s… and even the 30s?? Leon Theremin’s 1930 “Deep Night” just blew me away. Thank you KZread algorithm rabbit hole!

Moby said that he consider this as first house tune ever.

@A8AAAHHHNOPYRAMIDS

7 жыл бұрын

u l0st the titanic said what?

@lego5745

5 жыл бұрын

I would consider it proto-disco, because house music uses an electronic bass drum, whereas disco doesn’t.

@jellyacc

5 жыл бұрын

Who?

@unwelldanny7108

5 жыл бұрын

@@lego5745 "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer

@romancernjak

5 жыл бұрын

@@unwelldanny7108 i feel love isnt disco. disco was born on the shoulders of soul and funk while italo-disco (a misnomer if there ever was one) was born out of post-punk and kraftwerk-music.

I'm sad I never discovered this band sooner. This trippy, proto-techno sound gives me joy!

RIP Coxe, a man ahead of his time.

way ahead of their time, but sounds like their time as well amazing song this really made history

Birthed in the same year as myself. Brilliant! First time ever hearing it and loving life!

I got Simeon to sign copies of their LP's when he was playing for an art gallery opening in Fairhope, AL. Yes, Simeon is from Alabama. He said that he sold "The Simeon" a long time ago because it was taking up too much space at his parent's house.

This song always brings me chills. So beautiful

images from the incredible film ''Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno''

Genius to the bone.

I saw Simeon live in a small church in Toronto (that doubles as the music gallery) about 2-3 years ago. 40 people in the room. I listened to all of electronic music and beats being replayed in front of me, from hip hop to synth pop to most every electronic genre to present, from Severed Heads to Aphex Twin to Tiesto. I had to wait 20 years to see him live since my first exposure by a rather well informed friend (yay Dan Bryk!) but it was unbelievable. That only 40 people showed was ridiculous.

These dudes are total pioneers and legends. The originals of electro pop

great track! the drumming is incredible.

One of my favs. You can hear the origins of LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, and the roots of melding Electronic with Analog Performance. Amazing band. Too bad Pan-Am had it out for them.

The time machine really exists. Club banger 💥💥💥

... & i thought Kraftwerk was the genesis of electronic music

@thetasurfers

8 жыл бұрын

+Chaidir Basman definetely not. :)

@hrtz3312

6 жыл бұрын

The drums aren't electronic. Kraftwerk holds the title for the first ever track to have only electronic instruments. They invented electronic drums that you can play.

@reprodcer

5 жыл бұрын

Chaidir Basman well, define "electronic music". Kraftwerk is known as pioneers in terms of Electro and Dance Music, as we know it today.

@bulldogdave

5 жыл бұрын

@@hrtz3312 Stop! Not true. Electronic drums were thought of way before Kraftwerk; the first electronic drum was created by Graeme Edge who played with The Moody Blues. Kraftwerk were great but people give them a lot of credit they are not due.

@synthonaplinth5980

5 жыл бұрын

@@DarwinRojjo It started in the 1940s with Pierre Schaeffer.

I said it in '68 and I say it again: "Cool!"

Bought the vinyl back in 1968. Way ahead of it's time.

This was so ahead of its time it hurts!

@0patience4flz

3 жыл бұрын

We havent caught up to it yet

I really love this song. It's the best!

What a brilliant song from a underrated band from the sixties

Hypnotic and ahead of their time

I never did psychedelic drugs but this song seems like it would be trippy if you had some.

@Seraphim_skateboards

3 жыл бұрын

I’m stoned asf now I’m beside the toilet

This will be a unique and dark touch to put into a film soundtrack

I see the silver apples ( well... 1 of them) at my local music venue in Essex around 6 or 7 yrs ago. Rather an extraordinary experience.

My recommended just keeps getting weirder

I was born in 1968, and I like acid.

@gryaznygreeb

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in 2001, and I like acid. Truly a timeless invention.

@kaylaisnothere4397

4 жыл бұрын

@@gryaznygreeb Same. But it is certainly making a comeback in our generation.

@xrxckyx9210

4 жыл бұрын

I was born 2005 and I like acid Jk ... born 00

@sinepnam

4 жыл бұрын

Acid nice but shrooms better

@SkyeMpuremagic

4 жыл бұрын

I've never even tried acid and I like acid 😂

Anyone from 2020 ?

Mindblowing !

Fantastic video to go with a great song.

I have never heard this AMAZING piece of music before...how is it? it's completely relevant as EDM now. Just..wow!

a masterpiece - timeless

This is at least 20 years ahead of its time. Why isn't it better known. This is modern electronica, house/techno for the late 60s.

A friend bought me here. He got the CD of this for his 69th B-Day to reply his worn out vinyl version!

Experimental film and music. Love it! Period.

I bought this album when it came out! Great stuff! There are tales...

@efalkows

9 жыл бұрын

do tell

@goodsirknight

6 жыл бұрын

what a time to be alive and tripping.... pray tell!

This music is beautiful. What a sophisticated beat for the time, 1968! It looks like a pre-Disco, or an ancestor of Hip-hop!

Heard this today on Radcliffe and Maconie BBC Radio 6. Wow! Never heard it before.

Great video to this song, nice done!

I hear this song's influence in Portishead's "We Carry On", as well as some earlier Sonic Youth.

it could be played in a club and nobody would notice that this song was produced in 1968.

@Quantum_Sasquatch

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever been in a club ?

@uhohhotdog

4 жыл бұрын

Nah this definitely sounds old

@MellowJelly

4 жыл бұрын

@@Quantum_Sasquatch Have you ever been to a good club?

May we pay our respects to these pioneers who came before us.

Thumbs Up if the Nocturnal Wonderland documentary got you here :D

I like the part in which when we hit play we hear oscillations!

yeah, I triple-checked the release date because I couldn't believe my ears

That was pretty cool!

incredible. this is as ahead of it’s time & for me matches the ( Hot Butter) song Popcorn original version being played to a studio audience at BBC Top of the Pops in 1968. they’re doing their best being 1968 teenagers trying to get their heads & bodies around something which sounds as if it were in 1988 🙄👍❤️

I had to turn off the video to see if the oven timer was going off!

Amazing

Wow

I can hear so many sounds that would later be sampled for the TR808 909 etc etc. Fantastic track.

I have made it back home...I had a couple albums back in 1969 great even with a clear mind!!

1968, that means 53 years ago, wow sounds very electronic.

at least two decades ahead of it's time

another banger, jean-phillippe

One Saturday morning watching TV in 1968 I caught Dick Clark introducing a new band on American Bandstand, named Silver Apples.

RIP Simeon Oliver Coxe III ;-(

Utterly original and haunting song from the masters of their craft.

I have this album on Vinal. bought it is 68 in Seattle

That moment when you realize that your grandparents were way cooler than you ever were.

You could have told me this was an early Gorillaz track and I would have believed you

@MellowJelly

4 жыл бұрын

Same lol it's pretty fantastic to realize just how old this music is

@kelechi_77

2 ай бұрын

Sad Skinhead by Faust is from 1973 and also kind of sounds like Gorillaz

@zackzallie8735

2 ай бұрын

More like Portishead. Listen to their album Third.

Wow 👍👍👍

I wonder if this is the trippy song that was playing back in high school! I was going 15mph on the highway what a trip.

IF I HAD NOT LOOKED AT THE VIDEO. I SWEAR THIS WOULD BE FROM THE FUTURE

Great song & listening to it after I smoked a joint! 🙂🙂

Masterpiece.

You know when you hear a sixties song you never heard and love it, this isn't one of them

Masterpice!!!

Just picked this album up today