Various Artists - Science Fiction Effects / Various [CD] USA import

Folkways Records

Various Artists - Science Fiction Effects / Various [CD]

Artist: Various Artists

Title: Science Fiction Effects / Various

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070625020

Genre: Sound Effects

Album Tracks

1. Sound of Approach of Missile or Creature
2. Launching Site
3. Elevator Descending
4. Elevator
5. Rocket Primer
6. Space Ship Hatch: Opening or Closing
7. Rocket Blast-Off
8. Space Ship Blast-Off
9. Exterior of Space Ship in Motion
10. Electronic Siren
11. Siren: Fast & High Pitch
12. Beeper
13. Beeper: Fast & High Pitch
14. Cosmic Bombardment Indicator
15. Same with More Activity
16. Electronic Telescope
17. Electronic Pathfinder
18. Electronic Drone (Background)
19. Drone with Variations
20. Drone with Variations
21. Frequency Sweep: Dual
22. Tone Pyramid, Sweeps & Drones
23. Continued: Tone Pyramid Etc
24. Low Frequency Sweeps
25. Medium Frequency Sweeps with Echo Re-Verb. & Pulses, Drones
26. Space Machine (Background)
27. Space Sounds
28. Space Background: Drifting
29. Space Music
30. Sonic Search
31. Same with Jamming
32. Same with Variations
33. Space Music (Try with Speed Reduction)

This eerie album opens with high pitched sounds followed by crackling and rustling noises. While what produced these noises is not identified, they are assigned possibilities such as "Sound of approach of Missile or Creature" and "Launching Site": it is left to our imagination how these sounds were created. Recorded by Mel Kaiser in 1959 in the height of science fiction popularity, this futuristic compilation is an interesting listen. No liner notes.