This real masterpiece of Concrète and Synthesized music.
was no more available since its original manufacture in 1973.

Dub Taylor is an US composer, producer, engineer and designer born
June 22, 1948 in Burbank, California.
He has many creative facets: recording and mastering engineer,
record producer as well as composer, graphic designer and visual artist.
He has studied with pianist Richard Bunger and composer Karlheinz
Stockhausen.
Not long after the release of Lumière, Taylor established Vargod Studios
for electronic music and recorded sound, where in 1974 he created
his second work, Variations on the 'Dudley Do-Right' Theme for sampled
and processed sound (never released before, this exclusive track is included
on the CD version).
Taylor has bounced between the music world and the visual arts for most
of his life and continues to pursue diverse creative projects.

Lumière" evolved over a period of three years from 1969 to 1972.
 I started by recording random sounds:  Jets taking off at LAX, my girlfriend
laughing and screaming, my cat Bartok biting a microphone, conversations, etc.
I also sampled music, film soundtracks and TV and radio broadcasts. 
During this period I acquired the first self-contained portable synthesizer,
the newly-designed ARP 2600.  I began to envision an electronic and Musique
Concrete piece combining various natural and processed sound recordings with
synthesized sound into a suite of noise. In June of 1972 I did a preliminary
version of elements of the piece.  By October I was ready to put it all together.
I set up all these reel to reel machines with tapes I had pre-recorded and plugged
them into a mixing board, feeding stereo to a two-track master 15 IPS Revox
A77 tape deck. My idea was to create a sound collage with form but without
losing spontaneity and an element randomness. So I rehearsed my fade-ins and
fade-outs and the starting and stopping of the various playback decks and when
I was ready I went for it, "playing" all these machines like a musical instrument
 in this mad moment of creation.  In effect, "Lumière" was a "live" performance. 
The only later additions were the silence gaps inserted near the end of the piece
using pieces of blank leader tape.

Tracklista:

1 Lumière
(For Synthesized and Concrète Sound)
part one   17'11

2 Lumière
(For Synthesized and Concrète Sound)
part two   14'52