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Incredibly Strange Music: The Revenge of the Un-Hip

Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 February 1995

IT'S OFFICIAL: IT'S HIP TO BE square. Collectors are paying top dollar for original albums from such '50s and '60s easy-listening fare as LP's designed for stereo testing and music played on Moogs and other primitive synthesizers.

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