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- Artist: Luke Vibert
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- Release Date: August 07, 2001
- Genre: Electronica
Review
On a musical holiday to several studios outside of Paris, Luke Vibert played the role of musical archivist, trawling through hundreds of tape boxes to compile Nuggets: Luke Vibert's Selection, a collection of some of the wackiest library music of the '60s and '70s. French library music hit its artistic peak during the early '70s, when a British musician's union dispute shifted the focus of "music on any theme" across the channel. The steady French diet of electronics, musique concrète, avant-garde jazz, and yeh-yeh pop made for hundreds of alternately groovy, experimental, or funky recordings, released in limited editions of 200 to 500 and promptly forgotten. Nuggets, basically the work of three composers -- Roger Roger, Nino Nardini, and Eddie Warner -- includes nearly 30 tracks, most one- or two-minute snippets of crazed theme music, many of them sounding far more intrusive than background music should. It's difficult to imagine the phased-out-of-its-mind "Electronic Track 10" playing underneath a radio advertisement, though an earnestly groovy electro-popcorn number like "Electrostalactites" may have fared better. Not quite revelatory, but certainly interesting for fans of proto-electronica who can't get enough Bruce Haack, Perrey-Kingsley, early Add N (To X), or the Incredibly Strange Music compilations. ~ John Bush, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Next Episode (Lyrics) | (2:55) | ||
| Turkish Delight | (2:03) | ||
| Pathetic Motion | (2:07) | ||
| Intimations | (1:52) | ||
| Frantique | Roger Roger | (2:46) | |
| Xylophagus | (2:06) | ||
| The Bungler | (1:58) | ||
| Soft Bossa | (:33) | ||
| Cleopatra | (2:18) | ||
| Electronic Track 10 | (1:19) | ||
| Electrostalactites | (2:01) | ||
| Telex | (2:16) | ||
| Bumbling Along | (:33) | ||
| Xylo Spleen | (2:03) | ||
| Chunnel Boogie | (1:13) | ||
| Icebreaker | (2:10) | ||
| Bacarolle | (2:53) | ||
| Syncopated Motion | (2:25) | ||
| Electronic Track 15 | (1:31) | ||
| Strange Love Action | (7:19) | ||
| Electra-Loo | (1:04) | ||
| Zouche Drums 3 | (:45) | ||
| Electronic Track 12 | (1:40) | ||
| Pots and Pans | (3:23) | ||
| Sundown | (3:41) | ||
| Chromatickles | (1:41) | ||
| On the Air | (2:44) | ||
| Tropical* | (2:41) |
