The Holmes Archive of Electronic Music Thom Holmes

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.