R.I.P. Tod Dockstader

Somehow, I did not realize he lived just a couple towns over. The Quartermass CD on Starkland in 1992 hit me like a thunderbolt. I was a bit of a tough sell on pure electronics (I know way more now, but am still mighty picky about the style) and the rediscovery of Raymond Scott seemed like mostly hooey to me. So Dockstader was like — yow! The post-rediscovery work never hit me as hard and it’s so sad to think that if the guy had died young he would have thought of himself as a failure. Anyway, even if your not an classical-avant electro person, the page linked above will fill you in and at least Water Music on the Quartermass album gets highest endorsement from me.