EL PALMAS MUSIC SPAIN
*************** Barcelona
Distr. : SP -
US - Forced Exposure
Style : experimental / electronic /
ELPALMAS 002 RADA : TROPICAL COSMIC SOUNDS FROM SPACE 2LP 02.2020
Angel Rada, pioneer of experimental electronic music in Venezuela, has always been
a restless mind, an experimentalist with his feet firmly planted on the ground of
the art, his particular mix of sound design, cultural avant-garde attitude, and
spiritual inquiry led him to explore an impressively rich sound universe throughout
his more than 20 productions (one of the most extensive in his country) making him
the cult musician he is today. El Palmas Music, an independent record label in
Barcelona, pays tribute to this visionary Venezuelan musician with Tropical Cosmic
Sounds From Space, a double-LP compilation with 15 carefully selected tracks from
Angel Rada's extraordinary first period, coveted by experimental and cult electronics
collectors around the globe. The main focus of the compilation is between 1980 to
1989, the time when Rada released cosmic-tropical experimental jewels such as Upadesa
(1983), Viveka (1984), Continuvm (1986), Armagedon & the Third Wave Revolution (1987),
and Impressiones Etnosonicas (1988). Rada embraced psychedelia in his youth, his rock
band named The Gas Light gave him the opportunity to experiment with electronic
instruments, electric organs, and the autoharp. This impulse led him to get his
career to the next level. While he was taking music studies in Germany, gets in
direct contact with cosmic music and iconic artists such as Klaus Schulze. Back
in Venezuela, at the beginning of the eighties, he establishes the foundation of
his work and begin to be known as a reference, subverting the industry rules, not
only from the point of view of sound and production but also because of his self
management. Although his direct influences: psychedelia, krautrock, and experimental
electronic, were a starting point for his work during his studies in Germany between
1973 and 1978, Rada not only mastered the art of analog synthesizers, creating
totally new sounds, but put his efforts on the search for an original sound landscape,
rooted in its native homeland as in spiritual matters. His music was tagged in his
time by his German colleagues as "Latin Cosmic Psikraut", a futuristic vision of the
Caribbean Sea ahead of its time, full of innovative textures and amorphous envelopes
with an almost narcotic effect. Unexpectedly, while rehearsing, one day in 1999, a
natural tragedy would take his studio away, and all those valuable instruments that
had accompanied him throughout his life were forever gone. Includes insert with notes
and download with seven bonus tracks.
https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/ELPALMAS.002LP.html
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ELPALMA 7 LA JUNGLA/EL DRAGON CRIOLLO - LA CUMBIA DEL DESIERTO 7" 06.2020
A LA CUMBIA DEL DESIERTO
B JE PENSE A TOI
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ELPALMAS 008 CONTENTO LO BUENO ESTA AQUI LP 01.2021
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ELPALMAS 009 V / A COLOR DE TROPICO LP 01.2021
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ELPALMAS 012 JAGUAR ,ADREMONTE LP 12.2021
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ELPALMAS 013 V / A SABOR SURF LP 02.2022
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ELPALMAS 014 CONTENTO EN LANCHA PAL FUTURO LP 02.2022
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ELPALMAS 015 FRANK Y SUS INQUIETOS FRANK Y SUS INQUIETOS LP 12.2021
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ELPALMAS 016 EL DRAGON CRIOLLO PASE LO QUE PASE LP 02.2022
01. El Dragon Criollo - La Número Uno
02. El Dragon Criollo - La Brisa
03. El Dragon Criollo - Librame de Todo Mal
04. El Dragon Criollo - Hoy No Morire
05. El Dragon Criollo - Cumbía Fantasía
06. El Dragon Criollo - Mientras Unos Mueren
07. El Dragon Criollo - Contigo
08. El Dragon Criollo - Ojos De Bosque
09. El Dragon Criollo - El Día Que Te vayas
10. El Dragon Criollo - Pase Lo Que Pase
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