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1	Third [Remastered/Bonus CD] (1970) more music like this by Soft Machine Soft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited The Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. The original vinyl release was a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition -- two by Mike Ratledge, and one each by Hugh Hopper and ... see all copies from $11.40! new only from $11.40!
2	Vols. 1 & 2 (1989) more music like this by Soft Machine A combination of their first two studio albums onto one CD. Their first (originally titled The Soft Machine, from 1968), recorded with the trio of Wyatt, Ratledge, and Ayers, combines goofy humor, psychedelia, and some free jazz into an erratic but invigorating brew that was comparable to little else in the late-'60s rock world. Ayers had left to ... see all copies from $17.74! new only from $17.74!
3	Fourth (1971) more music like this by Soft Machine The Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study. Fourth is the band's free purging of all of that knowledge, woven into noisy, smoky structures of sound. Their arcane rhythms have a stop-and-go mentality of their own that sounds incredibly fresh even though it is ... see all copies from $11.24! new only from $11.40!
4	Floating World Live (2006) more music like this by Soft Machine With the release of Floating World Live, as of 2006 there were four CDs on the market -- two studio and two live discs -- representing the peak of Soft Machine's "guitar fusion" years. Bundles and Softs (studio) and Floating World Live and British Tour '75 (live) are all recommended to anyone for whom jazz-rock fusion doesn't cause a breakout in ... see all copies from $14.29! new only from $14.29!
5	Third (1970) more music like this by Soft Machine The Soft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited the Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. It's a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition -- two by Mike Ratledge, and one each by Hopper and Wyatt, with substantial ... see all copies from $5.33! new only from $5.33!
6	Six (1973) more music like this by Soft Machine The Soft Machine were many things to many people, but to most, the real Soft Machine ceased to exist when founder Robert Wyatt left to work on his conspicuously titled Matching Mole project. This departure is generally credited to the Soft Machine's creative advance away from prog rock and toward jazz fusion. Three years and three records after ... see all copies from $11.40! new only from $11.40!
7	Seven (1974) more music like this by Soft Machine see all copies from $13.46! new only from $13.46!
8	Volume Two (1969) more music like this by Soft Machine The first Soft Machine LP usually got the attention, with its movable parts sleeve, as well as the presence of ultra-talented songwriter Kevin Ayers. But musically, Volume Two better conveys the Dada-ist whimsy and powerful avant-rock leanings of the band. Hugh Hopper took over for Ayers on bass, and his fuzz tones and experimental leanings ... see all copies from $7.88! new only from $12.25!
9	Steam (2007) more music like this by Soft Machine Legacy Listeners might be justifiably wary of a band with the word "Legacy" in its title, perhaps surmising that the group in question might be rooted a bit too strongly in the past. And in the case of Soft Machine, the group at its very best -- during the late '60s and early '70s -- confounded listeners by breaking from its own past with each album ... see all copies from $14.29! new only from $14.29!
10	Grides (2006) more music like this by Soft Machine Cuneiform can always be counted on to unearth some gems from the late-'60s and early-'70s Soft Machine live concert archives, but with the 2006 CD/DVD release Grides the label might have outdone itself. The audio CD features keyboardist Mike Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper, saxophonist Elton Dean, and drummer Robert Wyatt performing material mainly ... see all copies from $20.72! new only from $20.72!
11 view cover	Spaced (1996) more music like this by Soft Machine In 1969, the Soft Machine were commissioned to provide music for a multimedia show at the Roundhouse in London. As Hugh Hopper writes in the liner notes, "they wanted a backing tape of suitably deranged and doomy sounds," and the group (augmented in parts by saxophonist Brian Hopper) delivered suitably abstract music that was high on ... see all copies from $13.93! new only from $13.93!
12 view cover	Virtually (1998) more music like this by Soft Machine Recorded on March 23, 1971 for Radio Bremen, during the band's final European tour with Robert Wyatt in the lineup, this is a good (and very well-recorded) document of their early-'70s sound. At this point the band, having doubled in size around the Third era, had contracted to a quartet with Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, and saxophonist ... see all copies from $14.29! new only from $14.29!
13 view cover	BBC Radio 1971-1974 (2003) more music like this by Soft Machine Combined with Hux's previous Soft Machine BBC anthology, the two-CD BBC Radio 1967-1971, this set (also two CDs) finishes a complete retrospective of the group's BBC sessions. All but two of the tracks on BBC Radio 1971-1974 ("As If" and "Drop," from a November 1971 session) were previously unreleased, and all are in fidelity equal to that heard ... see all copies from $26.14! new only from $26.14!
14 view cover	Live in Paris (2004) more music like this by Soft Machine The Cuneiform issue of Soft Machine's Paris Olympia Theatre concert is a straight reissue of the One Way set released in 1995 and quickly deleted. It features the short-lived but compelling lineup of Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, and drummer John Marshall. Marshall was in fact the second drummer to be hired after Robert Wyatt's departure ... see all copies from $20.01! new only from $20.01!
15 view cover	Noisette (2000) more music like this by Soft Machine In more than an hour of music from a January 4, 1970 concert, this represents the group just after they shrank from a septet to a quintet due to the departure of Nick Evans and Marc Charig. Only one other track by these five, "Facelift" (on Third), has previously been released; the five-man lineup would be short-lived, as soprano saxophonist ... see all copies from $15.34! new only from $20.88!
16 view cover	Middle Earth Masters (2006) more music like this by Soft Machine Soft Machine's 1967 lineup was, for most fans, the most essential form of the band -- the core on which every subsequent incarnation would hinge upon in one way or another. Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Mike Ratledge (organ) and Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals) took the notion of the power trio well past its logical potentialities and created a ... see all copies from $14.29! new only from $14.29!
17 view cover	Backwards (2002) more music like this by Soft Machine Albums of archival material by Soft Machine abound, especially when it comes to the era surrounding the group's Third and Fourth albums (1970-1971). While some of these documents hold interest for casual fans (Virtually and Noisette, both good-sounding live sets), Backwards will appeal only to the die-hard Soft head. Culled here are recordings ... see all copies from $14.29! new only from $14.29!
18 view cover	High Intensity Discharge more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
19 view cover	Fifth (1972) more music like this by Soft Machine see all copies from $12.34! new only from $12.34!
20	Soft Machine [BMG] (2000) more music like this by Soft Machine This set of songs -- recorded as demos by the Soft Machine's first manager Giorgio Gomelsky in April 1967 -- has been repackaged endlessly, and with good reason: not only are these the only recordings (bar one obscure single) featuring the group's original guitarist Daevid Allen alongside keyboardist Mike Ratledge, bassist Kevin Ayers, and drummer ... see all copies from $7.87! new only from $7.87!
21 view cover	The Soft Machine [Neon] (2001) by Soft Machine see all copies from $12.86! new only from $12.86!
22 view cover	Live at the Paradiso 1969 (1995) more music like this by Soft Machine This 45-minute live fragment captures the Soft Machine at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam circa 1969. The second incarnation of the band included Hugh Hopper (guitar/bass/vocals), Mike Ratledge (keyboards), and Robert Wyatt (drums/vocals). The trio heard here had originally been joined by Kevin Ayres (guitar) on the group's major-label debut Volume ... see all copies from $18.28! new only from $18.28!
23 view cover	Live in France (1995) more music like this by Soft Machine see all copies from $19.99!
24 view cover	Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) more music like this by Soft Machine see all copies from $24.00!
25 view cover	Softs (1976) more music like this by Soft Machine At this point in the band's history, Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that the head had been replaced three times and the handle twice. On Softs, Mike Ratledge, the only remaining original bandmember present on Bundles, the group's preceding Harvest LP, ... see all copies from $44.17!

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