That's so awesome that you actually were down with the Apples back in the day. (This is where I bow and go "I'm not worthy!!!")

There's a CD reissue of the original first two silver apples albums available.
Very Highly recommended.


there's also a CD called "The Garden" that has some unreleased early tracks.


Here's a blurb about them from:

www.myspace.com/sapples

Decades after their brief yet influential career first ground to a sudden and mysterious halt, the Silver Apples remain one of pop music's true enigmas: a surreal, almost unprecedented duo, their music explored interstellar drones and hums, pulsing rhythms and electronically-generated melodies years before similar ideas were adopted in the work of acolytes ranging from Suicide to Spacemen 3 to Laika. The Silver Apples formed in New York in 1967 and comprised percussionist Danny Taylor and lead vocalist Simeon, a bizarre figure who played an instrument also dubbed the Simeon, which (according to notes on the duo's self-titled 1968 debut LP) consisted of "nine audio oscillators and eighty-six manual manual controls...The lead and rhythm oscillators are played with the hands, elbows and knees and the bass oscillators are played with the feet." Although the utterly uncommercial record ¡½ an ingenious cacophony of beeps, buzzes and beats ¡½ sold poorly, the Silver Apples resurfaced a year later with their sophomore effort, Contact, another far-flung outing which fared no better than its predecessor. After the record's release, the duo seemingly vanished into thin air, perhaps returning to the alien world from whence they purportedly came; however, in 1996 the Silver Apples mysteriously resurfaced, as Simeon and new partner Xian Hawkins released the single "Fractal Flow." American and European tours followed, and a year later a new LP, Beacon, was released to wide acclaim. The follow-up Decatur appeared in 1998, and was soon joined by A Lake of Teardrops (a collaboration with avowed fans Spectrum) as well as The Garden, the long-unreleased third and final effort from the original Simeon/Taylor partnership. However, on November 1, 1998, the Silver Apples' van crashed while returning from a New York gig; the accident left Simeon with a broken neck and spinal injuries, casting his continued musical career in grave doubt. Danny Taylor passed away recently (March 10 2005) of a heart attack in Kingston, New York at the age of 56.

"They're still at it. Check out the 30 second sample from their fist 1968 album."

Wow, that was really interesting. It doesn't necessarily sound like something I'd want to listen to repeatedly, but it sounded *way* ahead of 1968.

While shopping for import 45 's in Seattle, the record store owner I frequented would play German, French and Italian Prog --aural wall-to-wall. That's how I got my first taste of Can, Gong, GuruGuru.. I loved it..and still do love the building repetitive recordings I was turned onto then; Miles Davis "Pangea" included. Miles is a fifth source, if you still wanna hang onto that theory....
This was the foundation for my appreciation of current dance DJs.