SILVER APPLES 1st LP NM ORIG ACID PROG PSYCH LP electronic minimal TRIPPY SYNTH

	£		57
	$		76

SILVER APPLES - same title / self-titled (1st LP) The first album from the pioneering psychedelic electronic minimalist duo. Original USA pressing LP on Kapp Records (KS-3562) from 1968. 
Condition: The sleeve is in EXCELLENT condition. The record is in NEAR MINT condition. Has the insert / poster. 
   

Silver Apples are a psychedelic electronic music duo from New York City composed of Simeon Coxe III, who performs as Simeon, on a primitive synthesizer of his own devising (also named The Simeon), and until his death in 2005, drummer Danny Taylor. The group was active between 1967 and 1969, before reforming in the mid 1990s. They were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.
Original 1968 first pressing of one of the early USA prog/psych/sci-fi bands...pure underground strangeness for the times...the otherworldly sound of SILVER APPLES went right over the hreads of most listeners in '68.... 
Even among the cutting edge early electronic rock acts of the late 60's, the Silver Apples were an anomaly. Bands like The United States Of America, The White Noise, and Fifty Foot Hose (all of whose Lp's have or will eventually appear with us) tended to perform more traditional songs, albeit with electronic instrumentation, juxtaposed with wild electronic weirdness. Silver Apples had a more consistent, unified, and droning sound. They're always at their strangest.
The band is only a duo, with hugely underrated drummer Danny Taylor provided complicated, organic beats while his partner Simeon supplies the vocals, electronic bass lines, and wailing oscillations from his namesake instrument. Yes, Simeon plays the "Simeon," a series of custom made oscillators which provide for most of the overt freakiness here.
"Oscillations" is a fine introduction to the band with it's pulsing beat and echoing, alien tones. This band's ace in the hole was the ability to actually write catchy songs, even if they were dresses in interstellar clothing, and "Oscillations" will stick in your head like glue.
Truth be told, there isn't a ton of variation in the Silver Apples sound (it is a duo after all), but no one else has ever sounded like this, so they certainly could deliver for two albums in the 60's. There are some minor touches to distinguish the song, such as flute in "Seagreen Serenades," and found sound in "Program."
As odd as it is, most of the songs here really are poprock songs mutated into something sounding like it was beamed from Neptune. The band only attempts epic, chanting mode on "Dancing Gods."
Silver Apples don't quite have the punch of a Velvet Underground, but they inarguably have earned "groundbreaking" status.
Tracks:
Oscillations (2:49) Seagreen Serenades (2:55) Lovefingers (4:11) Program (4:07) Velvet Cave (3:30) Whirly-Bird (2:41) Dust (3:41) Dancing Gods (5:57) Misty Mountain (2:46)
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