Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000

by 101 Strings

Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Alshire
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 24:51
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Al Sherman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Originally established as a highly successful purveyor of budget easy-listening records, the anonymous studio orchestra took a bizarre turn into fuzz-drenched, sci-fi psychedelia. Composed largely by Les Baxter under a pseudonym, the project layers chaotic analog synthesizers and surf-rock guitars over lush string sections, creating a wildly entertaining piece of space-age kitsch.

Genres

Descriptors: lounge, instrumental, melodic, space, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Flameout (2:49)
  2. Re-Entry to Mog (3:29)
  3. Space Odyssey (1:39)
  4. Astral Freakout (2:58)
  5. Orbit Fantasy (2:57)
  6. Barrier X-69 (2:15)
  7. A Disappointed Love with a Desensitized Robot (2:26)
  8. Trippin' on Lunar 07 (2:05)
  9. Where Were You in 1982? (1:50)
  10. A Bad Trip Back to '69 (2:17)

Credits

  • Al Sherman - composed by
  • David L. Miller - composed by

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