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New York City, New York, United States (1967 – 1970, 1996 – 1999, 2006 – present)

Silver Apples is an electronic/psychedelic duo which formed in 1967 in New York City, New York, United States. They originally consisted of Simeon Coxe III (who played a custom home-made synthesizer known as the “Simeon”) and Danny Taylor (drums). The duo split in 1970. The group was reformed in 1996 by Simeon and new drummer Xian Hawkins. Danny Taylor returned to the band in 1998 and the band toured and recorded as a trio until 1999 when Simeon was injured in a car accident. The band returned to making music in 2006, but without Taylor, who died in 2005.

Contrasting the flowery psychedelic rock music of the late-1960s, the new york city-based Silver Apples created an avant-garde sound based on little more than a homemade synthesizer (named the Simeon after their lead singer - Simeon) and an extensive drumkit, originally played by Dan Taylor. They reformed in the 1990s, making new records and playing live again.

Silver Apples were one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970’s, but underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s as well.

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weelads wrote:
13 days ago

it's hard to judge which decade a band's music when a band's music was made when they're this style and their discography stretches over almost 40 years..

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ashleyrobb wrote:
22 days ago

oh my goodness this band is absolutely amazing. i bet most people listening to this for the 1st time wouldn't even know which decade this music was from. brilliant.

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semuschka wrote:
22 days ago

дико адово

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IAJP wrote:
24 days ago

best thing about silver apples wasn't the fact that they were really influential at the time, but that their influence as avant garde musicians is even stronger felt today than it was 40 years ago, a surprising favourite with the punk and ensuing new wave crowd too..

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Chinasky wrote:
November 2009

Danny Taylor was monstrous drummer! "Machine"-style of playing 2 years before the mighty Jaki Liebezeit ! Respect!

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Cobracleo wrote:
November 2009

Listen Radio Velvet Cotorro http://www.lastfm.es/listen/artist/velvet%2Bcotorro/similarartists#pane=webRadioPlayer&station=%252Flisten%252Fartist%252Fvelvet%252Bcotorro%252Fsimilarartists and www.myspace.com/velvetcotorro

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SOLOMUSIKA wrote:
November 2009

....*♫♪ ♫♪ ♥♥♥

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rotovick wrote:
November 2009

Oscillations me prende papeL!!!

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belfesprit wrote:
November 2009

не было никогда

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winterhymn wrote:
November 2009

the drummer is rad.

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hornygirl3 wrote:
October 2009

favorite 60s band. seagrean serenades -- yeaaaah.

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IAJP wrote:
September 2009

fuck this band are cool

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mario_cano wrote:
September 2009

In spain very soon! uoauuu!!

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dying-is-fine wrote:
September 2009

wow, i didn't know how old these guys were. i found their self-titled/contact compilation at the library and tried it out. pretty good stuff. i like the self-titled more though.

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melting_window wrote:
September 2009

Amazing music.

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pablostevenson wrote:
August 2009

\o/ /º\ \o\ /o/ /º\ \o/ Electronic evocations of sound's reality \o/ /º\ \o\ /o/ /º\ \o/

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daydream_juliet wrote:
August 2009

All songs sound the same. And the vocals are out of tone every time. Contact is ok though as being more diverse musically.

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Ancore wrote:
August 2009

расслабляет, доставляет. приятный коллектив

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offcomethepants wrote:
August 2009

i think pioneers of modern electronic dance music.correct me if wrong

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Kobaian001 wrote:
August 2009

彼らが60年代の人間だなんて信じられらない。

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