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Post by secludedalchemist on Apr 28, 2018 13:40:46 GMT -5
I was thinking about this the other day and I kinda grew up on 60s-80s pop/rock radio, but, the first couple of songs I really remember vividly were Tears For Fears and Eurythmics songs, specifically the synth sounds of that time period. The lines were just catchy, atmospheric, and I really fell in love with those types of sounds. Anyway, I was wondering what your all's first experience hearing music with synthesizers was? Is that particular song something that you go back to often? Or, alternatively, what was the first song that you heard that made you fall in love with synths?
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 28, 2018 18:02:08 GMT -5
I don't know if this falls under this category but for me my whole obsession with various electronic genres comes I guess from childhood 80s memories with the classic albums of Jean Michel Jarre ! Oxygene and Equinox that is.. I feel lucky for listening to them at such an early age really  |
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Post by secludedalchemist on Apr 28, 2018 23:34:16 GMT -5
I don't know if this falls under this category but for me my whole obsession with various electronic genres comes I guess from childhood 80s memories with the classic albums of Jean Michel Jarre ! Oxygene and Equinox that is.. I feel lucky for listening to them at such an early age really I'm not entirely sure, either, honestly. But, this was really the only place in the forum where I thought the question might be relatively appropriate. I'd heard JMJ's name floating around, but hadn't had the chance to check his music out. Giving Oxygene a listen right now and I'm really digging it. It's super spacy. |
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 29, 2018 1:14:44 GMT -5
Glad you liked it, be sure to check Equinox too, both are music masterpieces for people who like electronic music, I consider them essential listens, extremely spacy as you said and tripy Glad you're digging them!! |
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Post by stormcrow on Apr 29, 2018 5:28:56 GMT -5
I had both Oxygene and Chronologie tapes back in the early 90s, I think that was my first listening experience with synth music. Then Mortiis' The Stargate blew me out in the latest 90s. I'm a big fan of EL&P and Goblin too, to speak about the "MiniMoog era".
Update: recently bought a vinyl reissue of Oxygene and I think it sounds fine... perhaps a little too "dark", but still works.
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Post by secludedalchemist on Apr 29, 2018 17:27:27 GMT -5
Glad you liked it, be sure to check Equinox too, both are music masterpieces for people who like electronic music, I consider them essential listens, extremely spacy as you said and tripy Glad you're digging them!! Will do, man! Thank you much for the recommendations! ๐ |
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Post by secludedalchemist on Apr 29, 2018 17:33:24 GMT -5
I had both Oxygene and Chronologie tapes back in the early 90s, I think that was my first listening experience with synth music. Then Mortiis' The Stargate blew me out in the latest 90s. I'm a big fan of EL&P and Goblin too, to speak about the "MiniMoog era". Update: recently bought a vinyl reissue of Oxygene and I think it sounds fine... perhaps a little too "dark", but still works.ย Love some ELP and, I haven't checked out Goblin but, seems like they've done quite a bit of soundtrack work. Sounds really interesting and I'll definitely need to give them a look. Is it maybe something to do with the mastering that it sounds a bit, "darker"? |
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Post by stormcrow on Apr 30, 2018 1:09:45 GMT -5
I had both Oxygene and Chronologie tapes back in the early 90s, I think that was my first listening experience with synth music. Then Mortiis' The Stargate blew me out in the latest 90s. I'm a big fan of EL&P and Goblin too, to speak about the "MiniMoog era". Update: recently bought a vinyl reissue of Oxygene and I think it sounds fine... perhaps a little too "dark", but still works. Love some ELP and, I haven't checked out Goblin but, seems like they've done quite a bit of soundtrack work. Sounds really interesting and I'll definitely need to give them a look. Is it maybe something to do with the mastering that it sounds a bit, "darker"? oh yes, Goblin was definitely a soudtrack-band. They wrote and played most of soundtracks for Dario Argento's movies: you can start from their most famous albums "Deep Red" ("Profondo Rosso") and "Suspiria". about Oxygene reissue: yes, maybe it's a matter of mastering.... nothing dramatic, though. |
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Post by secludedalchemist on Apr 30, 2018 4:08:30 GMT -5
Love some ELP and, I haven't checked out Goblin but, seems like they've done quite a bit of soundtrack work. Sounds really interesting and I'll definitely need to give them a look. Is it maybe something to do with the mastering that it sounds a bit, "darker"? oh yes, Goblin was definitely a soudtrack-band. They wrote and played most of soundtracks for Dario Argento's movies: you can start from their most famous albums "Deep Red" ("Profondo Rosso") and "Suspiria".ย about Oxygene reissue: yes, maybe it's a matter of mastering.... nothing dramatic, though. That's good to hear, then. Alrighty, sounds like a good starting point, and thank you kindly for the recommendations! |
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Post by emerge on Apr 30, 2018 8:19:31 GMT -5
I heard Popcorn on the radio as a kid, it was memorable since it didn't sound like the usual pop radio stuff.
80's synth-pop like Depeche Mode, New Order, Ultravox came along soon after.
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Post by DieuxDesCimetieres on Apr 30, 2018 13:49:00 GMT -5
Back when I first started listening to music actively in the early-to-mid 90's, there was a minor 80's synthpop revival going on, so tracks like Big In Japan by Alphaville and a few others were in heavy rotation on mainstream radio. Very soon I got mainly into heavy metal, but there was something in that 80's synthpop which remained in the back of my head.
I think pretty much my entire love for synthesizer based music comes from the early exposure to Big In Japan, really. Still one of my favourite tracks.
Another super-early hit for me was Call Me by Blondie, produced by Giorgio Moroder. I found it on some really odd Marlboro (probably the clothing line) compilation tape left by my dad after the divorce when I was six. Something about the pumping disco vibes, the "hard" guitar (for a kid of six it was hard!) and the sexy vocals of Debbie Harry just clicked. And still do!
EDIT: not to forget the seminal influence of 80's action and horror movies + all the old C64/Amiga 500/NES soundtracks I loved. Whilst not video game music of the era is not "synth music" per se, the overlap is so great I feel I can mention it here.
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Post by crystallogic13 on Apr 30, 2018 14:47:56 GMT -5
Hot Butter - Popcorn is pure gold, can't believe it hasn't been brought up yet! Excellent choice!!
As DieusDesCemetieres said also I guess 80s (great) pop music like Bing in Japan, Sounds like a Melody and many other classics also played a vital role, as well as computer/video games, which for me it would include A2600 sounds and later DOS sounds as well as Gameboy ones! Good catch too!
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Post by stormcrow on Apr 30, 2018 17:28:40 GMT -5
Oh, the old videogames! The A2600 and the Amiga were my world, back in the childhood days!! Then I got a used SNes too, but didn't play it that much. I wish I still have my old Amiga with ONE MEGABYTE RAM, hear the sweet noise of the df0 reading those blue floppy disks, whistling those beautiful melodies of the cracker's intros... OK let's stop here or I'll go crying Never turned back to videogaming since those days... I'd better remember as it was. |
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Post by Bรฅvingr on May 12, 2018 6:50:01 GMT -5
Like secludedalchemist said - pop music when I was a kid, my parents had Eurythmics albums. It was odd relistening to that sort of stuff AFTER I got massively into playing music in the early 90s, what had previously sounded normal sounded very "plastic"... As an adult, the first music I remember liking that had a strong keyboard synth sound was "Fragile" by Yes - that opened up a wormhole of prog rock that I disappeared into between 2003-2016! |
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Post by secludedalchemist on May 12, 2018 9:00:16 GMT -5
Like secludedalchemist said - pop music when I was a kid, my parents had Eurythmics albums. It was odd relistening to that sort of stuff AFTER I got massively into playing music in the early 90s, what had previously sounded normal sounded very "plastic"... As an adult, the first music I remember liking that had a strong keyboard synth sound was "Fragile" by Yes - that opened up a wormhole of prog rock that I disappeared into between 2003-2016! It is very strange that alot of those bands had very emotive vocalists with plastic-sounding, synthetic backgrounds. It's amazing how much of a thing that was with 80's synth bands. Rick Wakeman is fantastic. And that's pretty much the same way that I was with Rush, haha. Pretty much from late middle school to mid-college just stuck in the wonderful musical wormhole that is Canada's greatest export. |
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