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after seeing the 1 line review post about brian eno’s imaginary landscapes, i thought it might be good to collect a list of all the extant electronic music documentaries that are worth watching, so, here’s a start. bonus internet awesome points for anyone that unearths little known treasures.

Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution

I Dream of Wires

What the Future Sounded Like

Brian Eno - Imaginary Landscapes

Moog - A Documentary

Bassline Baseline (TB303)
(i haven’t watched this yet, it may indeed suck, or not)

The New Sound Of Music

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BBC Synth Britannia

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KQED Spark, Loren Chasse

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#4

The Krautrock documentary is really incredible. It’s not really an “electronic music” documentary, but there are a lot of interesting tangents that involve electronics.

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#5

This isn’t an electronic music documentary either, but something about working in Max / coding / computers always ha me curious about where modern electronics came from, this offers some explanation about transistors.

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A Documentary about live coding practise by Louis McCallum and Davy Smith.

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#7

Here’s a video that is not the “Alchemists of Sound” - one of the better documentaries of the early days.

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Just watched this amazing bit last night. It’s from an old TV show, so it’s short, but man, so amazing. The state of MIDI in 1986!

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#9

Not about electronic music but about sound in general.

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#10

fad gadget.

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oh, and (general avant-garde, but lots of electronic - so good, so so good) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgoEOJv2I_M

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#11

This radio 4 doc on Delia Derbyshire was a good listen

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#12

My favorite has always been Discovering Electronic Music:

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#13

countless reasons to love this documentary about depeche mode on tour. 1988 yes yes.

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#14

more / incoming !

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#15

I Dream of Wires is now on Netflix.

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#16

Universal Techno (french tv)

#17

shocked it wasnt here already

essential

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#18

Not about electronic music exactly, but about someone that contributed to it too…

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#19

The subsonic series was good:

6 half hour episodes looking at various experimental acts from around the world, produced in Australia.

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