So I'm not sure if this belongs in this thread or not, but it is music related and something I find fascinating. Electronic music... before it was electronic music. You thought Kraftwerk were innovative? Well, you're correct, cause they were. BUT! There was cool stuff being done even before them, before the almighty Moog.
I'll start with Tom Dissevelt (referenced by David Bowie when listing his favorite albums!). This is from 1962 (production started in 1958) and had to have taken an insane amount of tedious work, tape splicing, producing the right sounds and waves... it's goddamn ridiculous and he was wayyy ahead of his time.
Meet Delia Derbyshire, alcoholic genius and hater of the Moog (and also the creator of the original Doctor Who theme). Known for being a perfectionist, spending ridiculous amounts of time on her work, filling entire hallways with tape that she would painstakingly cut up and tape together. Unable to cope with the emergence of synthesizers after all this work she had done, she eventually drank herself to death.
Here's some early Moog play with Doug McKechnie, which is just really fuckin neat
And finally... this is produced with a variophone, from the damn 1930's. Also another tedious and long process, I can only imagine.
So idk. I hope someone else finds this stuff as interesting as I do, lol. I also like to know my roots when it comes to music, it's fascinating to go back and see where it all began.