Young Scientist likely haven’t played a Seattle date since Ronald Reagan’s first term, so this is a big deal. The original lineup featured Marc Barreca, James Husted, and Roland Barker (who later went on to play with Ministry), and they formed this city’s first electronic-music group. They released the astounding Results, Not Answers in 1979, which German label Bureau B blessedly reissued this year. It’s the closest anyone from here in the last century ever got to the kosmische atmospherics of Harmonia, Klaus Schulze, and mid-’70s Tangerine Dream. Seek out “Brainless” for an extended journey to the center of a burning cortex. It’s such a transporting blend of eerie, icy drones and pulse-pounding arpeggiations. Let’s hope Young Scientist—who’ll be wielding modular synths and computers—can summon that same magic, this time without Barker. Barreca will also be supporting his great new ambient opus, From the Gray and the Green. by Dave Segal