I will try to make an electronic music history. For what I know, I can go back to 1913, when the futurist composer Luigi Russolo was performing with his intonarumori in Italy. Luigi Russolo is an interesting music composer having in mind the fact that he was breaking with the classical aesthetics at the same time that Schoenberg was creating his dodecafonic system.
The influence of Russolo in experimental music is huge: his intonarumori can be consider the precesor of any synth of this time, and his ideas started a force that strike people from all arround the world in different times: in France, as in Japan and Egypt too, musique concrete emerged in the 50`s and during the 60`s, in his bitrthland, Luciano Berio experimented with tape machines producing noise in his symphonies.Thirty years later the noise artist, Merzbow were releasing his first tapes albums. But that force can be recognize in many artist of this time to: Nils Frahm, for example, use tapes machines with his grand piano.
Russolo's music its full of rough atmospheres and noises without any kind of tune, melody or rhythm; sometimes a few instruments appears trying to recalling those concepts but with some intonarumori interferences.
That being said, a compilation of Russolo made in 2000 and a compilation from various futurist artist can be downloaded below. Sorry about the bad quality but I couldnt find anything better.
Luigi Russolo - Die Kunst Der Geräusche (2000)
V.A. - Futurist Music - The Art of Noises 1909-1935
Thank you so much!
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