The Nightcrawlers - Spacewalk (1985, Progressive Electronic)

The Nightcrawlers were an electronic music trio hailing from Philadelphia, consisting of Peter Gulch, Tom Gulch, and Dave Lunt. They formed in 1979 and released close to 40 albums, many of them improvisational synth works, before disbanding in 1991.
To say they're one of my favorite electronic acts of all time would be an understatement. Their music was really responsible for me taking an interest in this whole scene of music, and to top it off they have one of the most consistent discographies of any musical act out there. If you enjoyed this album, I would really recommend seeking out their other works, a lot of which can be found on this channel: / @losament
Tracklist:
A1 - Digitalis 0:00
A2 - Ombra 6:42
A3 - A November Evening 18:10
B - Spacewalk 23:47
If anyone affiliated with this recording wishes for it to be taken down, please let me know. Thank you :]

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[@vindorin]

If you liked this, you may also enjoy "Realms of Magickal Sorrow" by Old Sorcery and other projects like that.

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since the dawn of the internet, one monolith stood still against the eternal waves of greed: free music sharing

[@patrick2935]

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[@greanbeen3525]

@@patrick2935 can't agree as it brings out something really unusual from time to time. Though I should say that didn't use KZbin back then as often as these couple of years

[@Switcher1972]

The holy Algorithm strikes again. For a fan of all things electro from 1968-1998, YT has been a blessing.

[@spardaparodax]

Fuck the algorithm, thanks to the great artists for the good music and to those who share it

[@DG-ic5yw]

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[@livearchives2826]

This really is superb - thanks for posting this, definitely deserving of a re-release! Great find, Cheers

[@powerplantplanetuniverse5945]

What another crazy rarity...the Nightcrawlers are a legend for very Berlin School & Ambient fan...for good reasons! They were a fantastic duo doing magic with their analogue instruments. And for 1985 this is an extraordinary recording...its made in their home studio,think all of their cassettes & vinyls are really good,but some are more advanced in the sound quality. There you can hear how they start levitating all around them,ghosh! I like them since long. Just very hard to find these albums. They were as great like Klaus Schulze indeed! Or earlier Tangerine Dream. This here is one of their BEST! Its opening doors to another reality!😂❤️‍🔥🎉😊🤪

[@Sad--kt]

🐱The time of my childhood, when musical caballah began, the time🎶 when I had it for the first time, whistled in my ears.. The time of such bands as Space, Zodiac and Secret Service.Then science fiction and disco are fascinating, and euphoria reached the stars💎

[@therealrodhull1]

I like the one they did with crickets in the background because they recorded it in a garage, and the cricket's noises became part of the sound !

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

Crickets will chirp in time with music. Buddy Holly's three piece was recording in a garage and that happened, the crickets turned up on the tape and they liked it so they called the band "Buddy Holly and the crickets." That story is why the Beatles named themselves the BEATles... they intended to play "beat music" like the crikets.

[@therealrodhull1]

@@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase Thanks for that info! Incidentally, on Cricket Lullaby by the Nightcrawlers, the crickets do seem quite loud and clear (just as loud as the synthesizers, if not louder!) - so I cant help being a tiny bit suspicious that their volume wasn't 'enhanced' somewhat... Of course, I'm not suggesting that the crickets volume was enhanced - maybe crickets really are that loud ?! Peter Gulch says that when the music was recorded, live crickets were outside his garage, so they just left them on the recording... But would they be this loud, since they were much further away from the microphone than the synthesizers were. What is your opinion on it?

[@bryanscarboddi1210]

Birds do the same thing🤖🐦🤖

[@burningrabbitacres8330]

Holy Buddy Holly!!!!!!!!

[@IsaacSMILE]

@@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase Great NUGGET!

[@IsaacSMILE]

Saw the name and artwork and was like - this will be good.

[@Kudagraz]

beautifully hypnotic. projects such as this really demonstrate how much emotion can be channeled through minimal composition. big fan of the space themes, as well. cheers.

[@indigoskywalker]

gotta love that dot matrix printer from 1985

[@nw1750]

It brings back a lot of memories....

[@subject20productions2]

I wish they would re-release all their works, all of their albums I heard so far is pure gold!✌️💚

[@Beardqt]

Sometimes older synth has a way of being abrasive but this album has been consistently peaceful and inspirational. I genuinely admire their passion for sound.

[@WAXT3R]

Hidden gem! Very atmospheric and deep!

[@nnamreh9463]

Thank you for that discovery. First time hearing this band, that's amazing !!!

[@The_Wizyrd]

Legendary pull ❤️‍🔥

[@lazy_dad]

this was awesome! thanks for sharing it. i had never heard of this band before! if anyone wants something in a slightly similar vein, i recommend PANCHROMA by WATERWHEEL. hypnotic and low-fi just like this!! you can find the whole album on YT as well.

[@breakfreak3181]

Thanks very much. This is quality! Great stuff!

[@muradtalukdar4401]

This feels like being in a dream that Stanislaw Lem had.

[@MORTIFICER]

This is remarkable and has sent me down a rabbit hole in search of more information on this band. So ahead of its time in different aspects, thanks for the share.

[@thehiddendrive]

Yeah - this is great. 40 albums?! They are like an electro-Guided By Voices. I'm excited to delve.

[@TremblingBeauty]

@@thehiddendrive And that's not even counting the solo works of each member + another 13 albums under the name Xisle, which had both brothers from this trio alongside frequent collaborators Andrew Rath & Chuck Van Zyl. Crazy amount of stuff to explore!

[@MORTIFICER]

@@TremblingBeauty Yeah so much creativity revolving around this one trio, I found the chuck van zyl while looking up their synkronos label. Such a gem that keeps showing new facets.

[@IsaacSMILE]

Veryu ahppy to have stumbled into this band knowing that they have 40 albums to listen to! Get in!

[@ParranoviaSynthMark]

This is wonderful ❤

[@trekanderson6701]

What an album

[@Thr333_Sugar_Skulls]

This is fantassstic great, wonderment Rainbow music. So beautifulll!!!

[@YoursTrulyMew]

Woah this just transported me to the outer limits of space 👽

[@The-KP]

This is fascinating, just interesting album, I bet their story is interesting

[@graysynther2169]

The problem with tape is storage + giveaways ! Every composition I did that went on cassette from the mid Eighties- early 2000’s,either disappeared or was given away.. The remaining ones where eaten buy mid old decrepid tape player double deck with Fast dubbing 😂

[@jinthecrazyhomosapien]

Exceptionnel, merci pour cette découverte ! Cet album est vraiment incroyable !

[@jasonblalock4429]

This is good stuff! Never heard them before, now I'll have to look into them. Thanks!

[@sergiomelis3344]

Beautiful album 👍👍👍👍👍

[@thekarmafarmer608]

Very stylish, throughout. VERY ahead of their time.

[@GreyishHouse]

The idea of things being "ahead of its time" is a bias originating from ageism and generational tribalism

[@Kwai-Chang-Caine]

upload is Atmosphere Records LP track sequence thumbnail shows Synkronos cassette inlay Good choice 👌

[@TremblingBeauty]

The synkronos cover is so much better it's absurd

[@urluberlu2757]

Wow! So beautiful and soothing! 🤩 Thanks for sharing!

[@FAEFYREDRAKE]

Oh nice, this is cool. Love hearing old rare tapes. Would of loved to see them live in the day that acid-y bass mixed with vangellis-y synth lines is really lush. Added these to mine and my partners list of things to vibe to🤗💜🙌🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️😜🫂😋

[@Chris_yes]

thanks algorithm. and thanks @december 23rd, 1969 for the upload!

[@hieronymous7]

I'm listening to it at same time as Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts from 1973 - take that KJ! Electronic music FTW LOL

[@josebenitez9442]

WOW

[@goodnightvienna8511]

i could have bought a physical copy listening to it and zone out to the deceptively simple artwork///we dont get that so mmuch now.

[@aurelf3158]

Thank you !A gem

[@memorytheater]

huge fan of this, honestly reminds me of 2009 emeralds

[@michaelmcclelland7075]

Better than mall music.

[@FLH3official]

Just discovering your channel (and subscribed). I want to thank you about what you do, to make people to rediscover the early synth scene. (I bought my 1st synth and began to record my work in these times...) 👍

[@DauvitAlexander]

This is fantastic. Thank you.

[@TJNorton]

This is so my world. Thanks for sharing it with the world

[@Waxadisc]

A November Evening is brilliant, reminds me of a track from the KLF's Space album.... what a great find this is.

[@technoman9000]

Oh wow this is glorious... reminds me of Drexciya

[@alessandromarchesini9039]

HAL 9000

[@bexiexz]

Very stylish, throughout!!! WOW

[@Robert-vk7je]

I think, I'll add this to my radio in Voices of the Void.

[@marcdoyle6297]

😊❤

[@orchidcut]

Wowzers

[@stefanoih.acquaviva4712]

My algorithm: Do U come in search of knowledge?

[@wallpurgesnight8209]

I had this & 2031

[@alessandraromano454]

Amazing!

[@metheboom]

First track goes matchingly with Massive Attack's Teardrop. Except for the lead synth that pitches high and low.

[@willdatsun]

presumably different Nightcrawlers to 'push the feeling' etc

[@tanompace9901]

Playing in this band is what Charlie and frank do in the night

[@ilanmoreau5198]

A November evening

[@bouloukos78]

!!!!!!

[@Sad--kt]

🎶1985🐱 🔊

[@eyoung1683]

Really cool record but it looks like side B is playing before side A

[@TremblingBeauty]

This upload is the vinyl LP version which has Spacewalk as the B side as opposed to the cassette version which is the opposite way around. I just chose the cassette artwork because it's prettier :)

[@soylentramen7795]

I won't let them stretch their necks To see my little black egg with the little white specks

[@clown134]

damn electyronic music before computeres even existed

[@TremblingBeauty]

real and true!

[@euonymos-k.-dexios4548]

Evocative music. But is it really a clever counterfeit? Just posing as old?

[@gandolphcarter]

I wondered this too, because I thought "nightcrawlers" might be an Always Sunny reference, and they are from Philadelphia too. But there seems to be mentions of it elsewhere online going pretty far back, so I'm thinking not a counterfeit.

[@atomicgrandpa]

The final five minutes seem oddly familiar, like something heard on a Netflix show or something. Weird. 🤔

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[@slimbrouckske]

14:40 yay

[@user-ve4wm5lq6l]

What if this is actually made by ai yesterday?

[@noshejustdidnot1923]

fun stuff but not sure about "progressive" for 1985. sounds like electronic music from the 1930's to 1970's... Johanna Beyer, Herbert Elmert, Oskar Sala, Steven Halpern, Bruce Miller & Rick Miller, etc... particularly sounds 70's.

[@thelonesoldier]

This is the same Nightcrawlers as 'Push the Feeling On' fame?

[@colonialstraits1069]

A quick Google search says no. The Nightcrawlers you are referencing are Scottish.

[@KelmutHool]

would be really funny if they had re-invented themselves like that 😄

[@olibirkett331]

I'd thought that to begin with, but once I heard it I knew it wasnt.

[@TayWoode]

Wasn’t there another band called the same name that did “push the feeling on” or is it the same ones?

[@TremblingBeauty]

Just another band with the same name :)

[@TayWoode]

@@TremblingBeauty thanks, I did think this is completely different to their other stuff 😂

[@losament]

Hi.

[@TremblingBeauty]

Hello!

[@soundshift833]

You can't consider electronica without a comparison to Walter (Wendy) Carlos. Try Sonic Seasonings (1972).

[@GreyishHouse]

Why no noise music from the 60s 😡

[@TremblingBeauty]

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