Penguin Cafe Orchestra, first 3 albums

Really beautiful cover art here.

I'm a little bit shocked I never heard these guys before, given how completely 'up my alley' this music is with the chamber classical elements combined with electric guitar, Heldon/Richard Pinhas-like electronic music, etc.  

A track called Hugebaby like, really really sounds like mid-70s Heldon:

Unfortunately their brilliant first album was as far as I am concerned the only truly progressive work, since thereafter the music descends into the kind of jumpy minimal music that features one chord or one repeated figure played over and over again until patience is completely worn out, and every composition sounds the same like something Philip Glass did in his unconscious hours...