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This Canadian-born composer was not only a mere innovator but went on to make some of the most deliriously strange and wondrous electronic compositions (and cover versions) of the 20th century. Just the fact that the phrase “occult-pop” has been used as a descriptor of his work should give you just a tiny hint of this man’s wholly unique genius.

At some point during the mid-70s, Garson seemed to have stepped out of our shared timeline and gone drifting through parallel universes, Moog in hand, like some sort of velvet-robed cosmic surveyor. His work stopped sounding like music and instead like the inside of a haunted lava lamp filled with dead satellites and broken View-Masters. 

Why not take a break from the algorithm? Read more about Mort Garson and his pioneering work in electronica here.