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The second CD from this electronic music master contains Tod Dockstader?s brooding, ominous Apocalypse, along with the piece famous for its haunting use of processed laughter, Luna Park, which a Fanfare critic called ?one of the finest works of electronic music I?ve ever heard.? (He adds: ?The rest of the disc is not a let-down.?) Also appearing for the first time on this CD are Two Fragments from Apocalypse and Four Telemetry Tapes, the latter being Dockstader?s last true organized sound pieces. In addition to receiving extraordinary praise within the United States, Starkland?s two Dockstader CDs have won glowing affirmations around the world, from Canada?s Musicworks (?vital and fascinating?) to France?s Revue & Corrigée (?astonishing?) to England?s The Wire (?extraordinary?). Dockstader?s music turns out to have a surprising relevance to music created decades later; he?s been described as ?one of the godfather?s of Nurse With Wound, and a distant cousin of rap and techno? (Option). Craig Anderton writes that Dockstader was one of the few to master ?the art of assembling tape-recorded sounds and painstakingly splicing, cutting, dubbing, manipulating and mixing to create final compositions,? then adds: ?If you think that sounds similar to the procedures used to create today?s cutting-edge pop music, you?re right.?