Keeping the Oram legacy alive
Oramics (2007)
> This definitive compilation of Oram’s recorded works was first released by Paradigm Discs in 2007 and re-pressed on quadruple vinyl by Young). As a starting point, try , composed in 1972 for , a ballet performed at the Edinburgh Festival. It opens with sounds of the Oramics machine before developing into the kind of rolling musique concrète groove which has led to Oram being hailed as an accidental pioneer of proto-techno, about a decade and a half before anyone in Detroit stumbled upon similar ideas.
