Big fan of Sixties labels who did those sort of "introduction for the general listener" compilations of musique concrete and electronic composers: Turnabout, Nonesuch, Vox's Candide imprint, major-label subdivisions like Columbia's Music of Our Time...But I don't think I've got any of these beauties put out by Limelight, a division of Mercury that was originally focused on jazz but abruptly switched to electronic and avant-garde music circa 1967.
Quite a few seem to have been licensed from Philips in Europe, often off the illustrious Prospective 21e Siècle series.
Limelight also signed up a few acid rock and progressive groups, like the synthadelic Fifty Foot Hose
Never heard of this lot
And the first album by Beaver / Krause - Ragnarok - misleadingly heralded on the front as "Electronic Funk" - which nonetheless suggests that conceptually if not sonically they are the godfathers of techno. (Or if not them, then the publicity / A&R people at Limelight).
Limelight also put out some world-y releases not unlike the Nonesuch Explorer series.
I covet the full set - but especially this label sampler:
This one though I could probably skip to be honest....
[most of these images half-inched from Degenerate Art Stream blog]
