Gil Melle ANDROMEDA STRAIN Orig.1971 Electronic HEXAGON VINYL Gimix Cover NM- LP
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Many rare vintage JAZZ LPs in Phase 2 of my Spring/Summer series.
Bop, Soul-Jazz, Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant Garde, Jazz Funk, Spiritual Jazz, Fusion and more
All in SUPERB Condition; most with EX+ to NM+ Vinyl
Mostly 1st PRESSINGS, including a large amount of PROMO LPs.
Many, many others still in SHRINK WRAP. Several STILL SEALED.
Quite a few WLP, Sterling, RL, Masterdisk and Audiophile import pressings in the mix!
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Most of these from a fanatically well-kept collection of a long-time former DJ
also a number of rarities (a few signed) from the AUSTIN WELLS* Estate collection.
*Austin Wells was a well-known west coast soul-jazz player who had many LPs autographed by the artist.
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Following Soon:
Phase 3 with More vintage and classic SOUL, GOSPEL, R&B, BLUES, JAZZ and JAZZ SINGER LPs
...then Phase 4 to follow, with a large collection of REGGAE and INTERNATIONAL (Afrobeat, Latin, Caribbean, Brazilian, etc.)
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GIL MELLE
The Andromeda Strain
Original Electronic Soundtrack
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.KAPP Records KRS 5513
Original 1971 issue • Stereo LP
1st PRESSING • Limited iss. HEXAGON DISC
Multi-Flap, Die-Cut, Foil Fold-Open Cover
VINYL is NM/NM-
Gleaming gloss vinyl has one short hairline, Side 1 only. VERY Minty all around with superb unscuffed die-cut edges. Labels are immaculate both sides.
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COVER is EX
Crisp, clean Foil-coated Die-cut, Multi-flap cover is extremely bright and evenly reflective. Some light wear/scuff (as usual for 45 year old silver foil covers) ...minor, nothing alarming, just light visible gentle use. No creases, dinged or bent edges. Multi-flap Hexagon pocket opens and closes snugly. Edges straight, corners sharp. One lightly bumped (still sharp) corner. No writing, tears, soil, stains or split seams. Overall very collectible condition.
STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG
LEGENDARY SHAPED DISC / COVER Combo for AMAZING ELECTRONIC SOUNDTRACK
Limited Issue First Pressing
ORIGINAL 1971 1st press in mind boggling multi fold gimmix silver foil cover and hexagon vinyl
Soundtrack to the early 70's sci-fi space thriller.
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next pressing (same year) was a regular round record in normal construction, flat foil cover.
That also soon went out of print - and the one other reissue (Spain) also was regular round.
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Tracklist
A1 WildfireA2 Hex
A3 Andromeda
A4 Desert Trip
B1
The Piedmont Elegy
B2 Op
B3 Xenogenesis
B4 Strobe Crystal Green
• Producer, Composer, Arranger – Gil Mellé
• Executive Producer – Dr. Rick Steinberg
• Engineers – Alan Sohl, Gordon Clark, Terry Brown
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Like Forbidden Planet, The Andromeda Strain is one of the few Hollywood productions to feature an electronic music score. The soundtrack was composed by composer-musician Gil Mellé, who is probably best knownfor his innovative, experimental jazz recordings and for his theme music the 1970s Rod Serling TV series Night Gallery. It is a unique blend of electronically generated sound, manipulated taped sounds (musique concrete) and some traditional instrumentation (keys, double bass, percussion), punctuated by bursts of electronic white noise and pink noise. The Percussotron III, which the composer designed especially for Andromeda, is heard throughout the various tracks.
Musique concrete also plays an important role here. Many field trips were made by the artist in order to record natural sounds of 20th century life (Jet Propulsion Labs in Southern California, buzz saws, wind, bowling alleys and railways). Traditional instruments were used after being electronically altered (like ten times) electronically processed with keys & sound effects. On the general level with some of the avant-garde pioneering (OHR label, etc) German Krautrock "space" bands... Faust, earliest T.D. and first generation Ash Ra Tempel.
Here are some interesting facts from the man behind this unique creation, in his own words, by Dr. Rick Steinberg:
"In 1970, during the editing of his now classic movie The Andromeda Strain, the director, Robert Wise, approached me with a view to have the soundtrack album marketed in a special manner. I was then in charge of Order Service for MCA Records; that is, record manufacture. He asked if it was possible to have the record pressed in a hexagonal shape as the extra terrestrial viral strain called Andromeda in the film was hexagonal. I said anything was possible, but that it would cost an estimated $20,000. While this was then a high figure for record production, it was minimal to the movie business and was agreed. ??The executives at Kapp Records were only too happy to go along with the scheme as it relieved them of the production costs. (The soon to be defunct Kapp Records was one of several labels under the MCA umbrella at the time.)
I discussed the matter with the president of Monarch Records, who pressed all MCA record requirements for the West Coast at that time. My idea was to have the music recorded in 10 Au format but put on a 12 Au matrix and manufactured as a 12 Au record. A steel hexagonal mold would then be made and this would be used in a press to trim the excess material from the 12 Au record to make a hexagonal shape, leaving the 10 inches of recorded material intact. This became the production method. ??Kapp had agreed to a production run of 10,000 records. The pressing process encountered some problems: the unrecorded surface of the record had to be roughed so that it could be gripped for the cutting. This left unsightly corners on the finished record, therefore a more careful method of roughing only those edges that would not form the corners of the finished record had to be devised. Also, for a run of 10,000, the edges of the mold had to be sharpened frequently so as to leave a clean edge on the record. ??The (elaborate) packaging into the record jackets also required extra time compared with normal jacketing.
However, the total cost, including a spare mold, came to somewhat less than the quoted figure of $20,000. MCA were fortunate in having a very creative design team for their record jacket production. John LeProvost and Virginia Clark wanted to reflect the fact that it was music from a movie, thus they came up with the idea that the jacket should emulate a camera lens surrounding the actual record, but nevertheless pasted on a 12 Au square board. ??The original 10,000 records sold out rapidly. Gil Melle, the composer of the music, urged a second pressing, but the Kapp management did not want to go to the expense of reproducing the original format. It was therefore decided to repress the 10 Au recording in the standard (round) disc and standard (square) jacket. This did not sell so well, and MCA soon lost interest in the record."
"Origami" style original custom inner sleeve included - NM.
Album kept in a protective, Mylar Flap-Seal outer-sleeve
*as shown in LAST photo
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