Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Sorry, I'm not familiar, but I do like the cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted January 3, 2022 Author Share Posted January 3, 2022 Recording at Vangelis' Nemo Studios was almost like living in Blade Runner: Auto Photo Gallery: http://www.nemostudios.co.uk/nemo/sweetnemories/sweet_main.htm Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 George Harrison's Beaubourg from 1969: Vangelis' Electronic Sound from 1978: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I'm not sure which one I dislike more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 I love Beaubourg Part 1. Part 2 feels a bit like album filler. The noisy CD doesn't do it justice. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I'm not sure which one I dislike more. He, he. Can't speak about the Harrison, but I could never get into Vangelis' BEAUBORG either. Fascinating, for sure, but too 'musique concrete' for my taste. Same for some of Jarre's excursions into similar territory. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 I've never heard any ofHarrison's Moog music. Even the station that plays exclusively Beatle music never programs it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 Even though these two experimental albums are somewhat similar (lots of ring modulation on both albums), Harrison's Electronic Sound is more avant-garde than Vangelis' Beaubourg because there is actually plenty of melody and harmony on Beaubourg. Not sure what Harrison is playing but, on Beaubourg, almost all what you hear is Yamaha CS-80, which Vangelis once described as his most important synthesizer. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Thor said: Same for some of Jarre's excursions into similar territory. Such as? Téo And Téa is a whole boatload of bad, but for different reasons. 1 hour ago, AC1 said: Not sure what Harrison is playing... He could be messing around with the VCS 3, that The Beatles just happened to have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 1, 2022 Author Share Posted March 1, 2022 5 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: He could be messing around with the VCS 3, that The Beatles just happened to have. That has to be it! Back in the day, when listening to Beaubourg, I always felt it was evocative of deep space, very much like the universe sequence in The Tree Of Life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 On 01/03/2022 at 12:54 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: Such as? Téo And Téa is a whole boatload of bad, but for different reasons. Oh gosh, no, nothing like that (even though I like that album more than most, including Jarre himself). But Jarre has explored stylings inspired by his mentor Pierre Schaeffer in the past. There are bits and bobs on his "unknown" debut album DESERTED PALACE (like the track "Free Floating Anxiety"), a track like "Metallic Souvenir" from PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES or the completely wacky, out-there 'musique concrete' for the 1971 ballet AOR (all very Schaeffer/Stockhausen in sound). Not for the faint-of-heart -- and very far removed from the 80s laser anthems! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Hmm. I've never investigated anything earlier than OXYGENE, so this is a bit of a revelation. It sounds like Malcolm Clarke's "noodlings" for The Sea Devils. Ps, it's still better than Téo And Téa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 There's a LOT of great Jarre stuff prior to OXYGENE -- from the experimental to the more melodic. But it's somewhat of a jungle to explore. I should play TEO & TEA again, it's been a while. Unashamedly commercial, but still gets me going. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Yeah, I'll do the same. I loathed it, on first release...then again, I hated Magnetic Fields when I first heard it, too, and now it's just behind Zoolook as my second favourite Jarre record. It only goes to show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 Rather than TEO & TEA, this conversation inspired me to play this again: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 I've not heard this. Is it as good as THE CONCERTS IN CHINA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted March 2, 2022 Share Posted March 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I've not heard this. Is it as good as THE CONCERTS IN CHINA? Very different beast. It was a small concert in a fashionable, castle-type building -- more of a master class for 100 people that was meant to showcase the evolution of electronic music through Jarre's own compositions over the years. So apples and oranges, really. While my favourite Jarre 'live' album will always be the Houston/Lyon double-header (probably my 'desert island' Jarre disc if I had to choose just one), there's no denying the fascination and historical importance inherent in the CHINA concert set. What's your favourite live album? Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 3, 2022 Author Share Posted March 3, 2022 I never heard of JMJ before his big hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted March 4, 2022 Author Share Posted March 4, 2022 I love how relaxed TV was back in the day. It's almost ASMR. BTW, watch Peter Howell play the Yamaha CS-80 (Vangelis' favorite synth). Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted March 4, 2022 Share Posted March 4, 2022 On 02/03/2022 at 10:52 PM, AC1 said: I never heard of JMJ before his big hit. Dr. Zhivago? A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,531 Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Through some rabbitholes I found myself starting to explore electronic/ambient as an evening listen or work background music. Tidal's genre category led me to 3 albums I really liked: From what I hear, Apollo's somewhat of a classic, I find it very calming and satisfying, with even somewhat of an arc to it as it grows from colder less varying textures to more melodic ideas by the end. Sowiesoso's less refined but in a similar vein. Jacaszek's Glimmer is a very different, more out there concept melding acoustics with noises and it hits my spots just right! Bellosh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bellosh 3,419 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 @Holko check out SAW II by Aphex Twin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 We talked about this recently, in this thread or another one, I forget. Anyways, it's my favourite Kraftwerk. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 It's great stuff, Thor...but better than ELECTRIC CAFÉ? Better than THE MAN MACHINE? Better than T.E.E.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 He, he...yes, indeed. I think it was you and I who discussed it earlier. I like all my seven Kraftwerk albums, but this one beats them all. Cemented by the fact that it came out just a couple of years before I saw them live, and they played a lot of it then. Hard to believe it's almost 20 years ago since it came out, and they haven't released any new material since, AFAIK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 No, no new material. Only 12345678. The MINIMUM MAXIMUM dvd, is fantastic! I wish that TDF had included EXPO 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Rimbert is perhaps most famous as a performer on many Jean Michel Jarre albums and concerts, but he's done some neat solo stuff too. A lot of library music, for example, or solo albums like this from 1979 -- a mix of disco, light pop and electronic music. It's all very cute and infectious. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted May 7, 2022 Author Share Posted May 7, 2022 Never heard of him but he clearly had good relationships with KORG. My first synth was the KORG MS-20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted May 7, 2022 Share Posted May 7, 2022 Yeah, he's good with the Korg. I also recommend checking out some of his library music in the April Orchestra series. No. 51, for example. Very hard to find, though, so YouTube might be the solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 Arturia has a Blade Runner style ad. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 ... and it's still better than Zimmer's score Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 I never listened to Zimmer's score on its own but it doesn't do anything for me in the movie, which is funny, because I think Vangelis' score is the heart and soul of Ridley Scott's movie. And vice versa! The music can't live without the imagery it is written for either. Scott wanted to make a fun comic book movie. Vangelis, however, saw the beautiful sadness. Somehow they created a perfect marriage. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Was recently reminded how much I used to be a huge fan of this electronic artist called Tobacco and his band Black Moth Super Rainbow. He has a vintage-ish synth psychedelic pop sound that I just eat up. Cool shit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 No doubt FART has this in his collection. 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 I don't, actually, so thanks for the heads-up bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted May 26, 2022 Author Share Posted May 26, 2022 In the series 'Confession Time': Michael Stearns ... Yes, that's right, I'm not a fan. Especially not from his "warm floating in space' music, which is too New Agey for me, his darker floating drones are okay. I'm going to guess that Thor loves him while Richard is lukewarm about him. Even looking at the guy tells me that it's not for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted May 26, 2022 Share Posted May 26, 2022 Well, he's no Larry Fast. I mean, it's no Soundcheck Delta 3, is it? To be terribly honest, it sounds like the background music whenever The Book in The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy is read out. It's not bad, but then again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 Dave Smith, the founder of Sequential Circuits (Prophet 5) and the father of MIDI has died: https://mixdownmag.com.au/news/legendary-synth-pioneer-and-sequential-founder-dave-smith-has-passed-away/ Vangelis and his Prophet 5 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 More Prophet 5 users: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Although he is venerated, and criticised, in equal measure, it has to be said that FACE VALUE is among the greatest records of the 1980s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 I bought the first one (Face Value) but that's it. I guess you have them all? My favorite is the last song of the album, which, if I'm not mistaken, is also Collins' favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Not sure what you mean, Alex. The final song is a snippet of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, preceded by a passable, but not brilliant, rendition of Tomorrow Never Knows. Immediately preceding that is If Leaving Me Is Easy. I like that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted June 2, 2022 Author Share Posted June 2, 2022 49 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Not sure what you mean, Alex. The final song is a snippet of Somewhere Over The Rainbow, preceded by a passable, but not brilliant, rendition of Tomorrow Never Knows. Immediately preceding that is If Leaving Me Is Easy. I like that one. My LP (vinyl) ends with 'If Leaving Me Is Easy'. That's the song I'm talking about. It's how this album should end. Maybe the CD has a different track order with some extra bonus tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 The U.K. vinyl has both Tomorrow Never Knows, and Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Somewhere Over The Rainbow from The Wizard Of Oz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,553 Posted June 3, 2022 Share Posted June 3, 2022 4 hours ago, AC1 said: Somewhere Over The Rainbow from The Wizard Of Oz? Exactly! Nowadays, it would be called a "hidden track". It's sung very quietly, and, at the end of it, Collins says: "Forget it". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 Raymond Scott (the band leader that JW's father played with who wrote "Powerhouse", "The Toy Trumpet", etc.) in later life was involved in research and experimentation with early synthesizers, which included lots of commercial jingles in the 50s and 60s. I really like this one he did for a commercial for Sprite (the soda) And this one's fun too A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,359 Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted August 16, 2022 Author Share Posted August 16, 2022 The daddy of FM synthesis ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,520 Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Brand new release. It's not as good as Pt. 1 -- not enough dynamic range -- but certainly classic Hammer. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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