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Post by Båvingr on May 19, 2018 6:50:13 GMT -5
Holy cow, JMJ's Oxygene and Equinoxe are amazing! I really enjoyed both, I think Ox is better music, but Eq is just freaked-out demented electronic hell! Thanks to the people who mentioned him - this could be the start of an obsession.
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Post by stormcrow on May 19, 2018 10:17:17 GMT -5
Holy cow, JMJ's Oxygene and Equinoxe are amazing! I really enjoyed both, I think Ox is better music, but Eq is just freaked-out demented electronic hell! Thanks to the people who mentioned him - this could be the start of an obsession. did you try Chronologie as well? it's different but perfect 80s sound!
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Post by crystallogic13 on May 19, 2018 10:17:48 GMT -5
JMJ is a space wizard indeed, besides Oxygene and Equinoxe which are masterpieces, since you liked them, definitely give a listen also to Rendez-Vous and Magnetic Fields. They are not in the same league as the 2 previous classics but certainly are great and a must to check out (highlights of those back then and still most probably known are Magnetic Fields part 2 and Fourth Rendez-Vous, bring up huuuge 80s memories.. ).. I'd also note that the rest of his discography unfortunately besides the previous 4 albums is not up to par and maybe I'd say to not bother with the rest..
On his early albums though JMJ has a unique craftful ability to transfer those 80s,space,physics,cosmology and scifi vibes like no other. I slowly explore (through years..) early electronic but haven't heard something that comes close (both in atmosphere and quality) besides certain classic piece by Vangelis. In my opinion Jean Michel Jarre is to space electronic inspired music what Basil Poledouris is to Dungeon Synth! Can't think my musical listens without them.
Anyway as I was saying it's hard to find something that hits the spot like it exactly, and a genre that has gems in a similar vein, is a direct descendant of early electronic, progressive tech Trance, also huge space/sci-fi vibes there. This is one of my favourites ever and I hope you will enjoy :
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Post by Båvingr on May 21, 2018 10:02:36 GMT -5
Excellent, I've downloaded those other 3 JMJ albums, will give Composure a listen later too. Thanks guys!
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Post by AndruJorj on May 23, 2018 14:22:50 GMT -5
The earliest synth music I liked was probably 70s dub reggae and 80s 2-tone ska music. Some of my favourite reggae records were created with heavy synthesizer contributions. For example, a group like Chalice redid some of their earlier songs with synths and those songs are pretty badass for their genre. Chalice - Can`t Dub I was a fan of novelty acts like Wesley Willis in the 90s. Until a few years ago, I absolutely hated almost all synth-based music. I come from a punk/metal background and the thought of making serious music with synths was the furthest from my mind it could have been. About a decade ago I started playing black metal on a regular basis, and began incorporating synthesizers into some of my compositions. I've always played piano and have always owned synthesizers, ever since I was a young kid. I just never wanted to make music with them because my preferred genres didn't use these instruments. I eventually moved on to making purely synthesizer-based music when I'm not writing shitty punk rock songs or composing for my black metal project.
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Post by Båvingr on May 26, 2018 4:03:29 GMT -5
The earliest synth music I liked was probably 70s dub reggae and 80s 2-tone ska music. Some of my favourite reggae records were created with heavy synthesizer contributions. For example, a group like Chalice redid some of their earlier songs with synths and those songs are pretty badass for their genre. Chalice - Can`t Dub This thread is going some very interesting places. I'm a fan of Jamaican music from original ska through to roots/dub, dancehall etc - not so much. Not heard Chalice before - thanks. I really love Sly & Robbie's production job on Black Uhuru in the 80s - it was a revelation to me about 10 years ago! I was actually thinking of creating a thread about "digital dub" (NOT "dubstep" - very important difference!!!) maybe I should as that would kind of veer this thread off-topic...
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on May 26, 2018 8:14:22 GMT -5
I'm also a big fan old old reggae and ska, but I think reggae went the wrong way at the very latest when heavy use of synthesizers became commonplace in it. Gimme some Symarip or Desmond Dekker any day over Black Uhuru.
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Post by Summerless on May 26, 2018 12:19:51 GMT -5
Not sure how many of y'all out there are prog nerds and this may be painfully obvious, but Rick Wakeman was for sure my first love in terms of synth music - everything from Yes, to Strawbs, and his solo work.
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Post by ranseur on May 26, 2018 19:12:11 GMT -5
The soundtrack to david the gnome was a big one. but a more obscure one that I remember from when I was a little kid was this dr. seuss abcs video that I had on vhs. It's chock full of cheesy synths.
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Post by secludedalchemist on May 27, 2018 13:07:42 GMT -5
The soundtrack to david the gnome was a big one. but a more obscure one that I remember from when I was a little kid was this dr. seuss abcs video that I had on vhs. It's chock full of cheesy synths.
Man, talk about a nostalgia trip. I feel like we may have watched a couple of those in elementary school. Gotta love those cheesy synths, too.
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Post by nahadoth on May 27, 2018 14:13:01 GMT -5
I think the record from the 80s by this band Air Craft was my first serious exposure to synth work. Not featured in this video but the album had tons of synths, keys, and electric violin on it doing jazz fusion and new age.
Probably Spencer Nielsen's Ecco OST was my first synth related album I sought out myself though.
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Post by Hyper Shaman on Dec 7, 2018 12:02:31 GMT -5
Hmm not exactly sure. I'm fairly certain I was introduced to synth based music through video games first.
I remember playing a lot of Age of Empires II and Heroes of Might and Magic III as a young boy and the BGM on those stick with me
As for synth music made for the sake of itself I think it was in high school when I started listening to more electronic music Also synth parts on Black Metal tracks
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Post by thekeeper on Dec 7, 2018 12:44:40 GMT -5
Hmm not exactly sure. I'm fairly certain I was introduced to synth based music through video games first.
I remember playing a lot of Age of Empires II and Heroes of Might and Magic III as a young boy and the BGM on those stick with me
As for synth music made for the sake of itself I think it was in high school when I started listening to more electronic music Also synth parts on Black Metal tracks
If video games count for this at all, they'd be an early exposure for me as as well. I started playing video games like late SNES era, but before then my parents always had The Cure or something going on in the car or the house. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult was an early EBM exposure, lots of synths and weird stuff going on there. I remember when I first heard the synth line to Joy Division's "Love Will Year Us Apart", I immediately fell in love. I distinctly remember first envisioning like a antiquarian library building with lion statues at its doors. Very light colors, pale yellow and white. Weird kind of memory. So I guess the synthy goth stuff got me into the electronic possibilities in music. The Cure is probably the most prominent for an early exposure to how boundless sound can be and that you don't have to rely on standard instruments all the time.
My first BM synth exposure was Burzum; those synths really made it for me, same for Emperor. I'm still drawn to the symphonic stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2018 7:42:05 GMT -5
New wave and Italo Disco, of course.
Then the beginning of mainstream House / Dance music, but I hated that, at that time.
That said, the kind of synth music that influenced me when I started to compose, was the soundtracks of Amstrad CPC games, like these :
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Post by sternenfeuer on Feb 6, 2019 4:56:53 GMT -5
Def. the intro themes of Streehawk (T. Dream's "Le Parc (L.A. - Streethawk)") and Airwolf (by Sylvester Levay), both being TV shows I loved as a child. Later also Jan Hammer's Miami Vice stuff came into play ("Crockett's Theme"). Oh, not to forget the tons of video games I spent countless hours on (mostly Amiga, SNES and Sega Genesis stuff).
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