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Magyar Elektronikus Zene = Hungarian Electronic Music (Hungaroton #SLPX 11851, 1979)

1-01. Zoltán Pongrácz; Mariphonia (8:11) 1972
1-02. Zoltán Pongrácz; Egy Cisz-Dur Akkord Története (5:51) 1975
1-03. Peter Eötvös; Mese: Rövidített Változat (12:21) 1968

1-04. Iván Patachich; Magánhangzók: Ta Fonaenta (8:10) 1976
1-05. Iván Patachich; Hangzó Függvények: Funzione Acustica (10:39) 1975
1-06. Máté Victor & Péter Winkler; Viscositas (5:17) 1975

Zoltán Jeney (Hungaroton #SLPX 12059, 1979)

1-07. Zoltán Jeney; A Hundred Years' Average = Százéves Átlag (18:05) 1977

Fiatal Magyar Zeneszerzők Elektronikus Kompozíciói = Electronic Music By Young Hungarian Composers (Hungaroton #SLPX 12371, 1983)

2-01. Iván Székely; For Alrun (7:45) 1975
2-02. Miklós Csemiczky; Meditatio Mortis (9:59) 1981
2-03. Máté Victor; Viatrone (8:54) 1981

2-04. László Király; Piano Piece (11:29) 1980
2-05. István Szigeti; Souvenir De K. (11:57) 1981

[CP 003 CD] Magyar Elektronikus Zene = Hungarian Electronic Music, Fiatal Magyar Zeneszerzők Elektronikus Kompozíciói = Electronic Music By Young Hungarian Composers +

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September 2024; long-awaited & much needed refresh of this canonic early C.P. classic, here augmenting the original "Magyar Elektronikus Zene: Hungarian Electronic Music" (SLPX 11851, 1979) set w/ the entirely apropos follow-up, "Fiatal Magyar Zeneszerzők Elektronikus Kompozíciói = Electronic Music By Young Hungarian Composers" (SLPX 12371, 1983) on a second disc, along with the... additional addition of the stunning Electronic Gliss-Drone piece "A Hundred Years' Average = Százéves Átlag" from Zoltan Jeney's intial Hungaroton survey (SLPX 12059, 1979; released simultaneously with the original "Magyar" LP) added at the end of disc one! Comes with a 6-panel insert (in addition to the 6-panel semi-gloss booklet) recreating the multi-lingual inserts included in the original editions!

It’s Friday, and here’s another Creel Pone - I’m sensing a pattern here - this time a thoroughly fantastic comp running down the cream of the early-mid 70s Budapest crop. One of my all-time favorite pieces of Electronic Music is on here; Zoltan Pongracz’s "Egy Cisz-Dúr Akkord Története" (or, "The Story of a Chord in C Sharp Major") which sounds like a Hammond Organ melting over a rainbow arc.

Other than the last piece (mired by a somewhat crippling sound-set consisting of what are now known as “Sci-Fi noises”) everything here is of the highest caliber; an especially attractive proposition as most of the composers are entirely unknown outside of Hungary other than Pongracz (who split a Deutsche Grammophon “Avant-Garde” series LP with Gottfried-Michael König) and possibly Eötvös; but you’d have to be very knowledgeable.

Totally great found-junkbox cover collage repro’ed here beautifully, as are the liner notes (in four languages) on the gatefold of the booklet inside. The first of, hopefully, many Geographically-specific titles in this fledgling, mysterious series.