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Prog_Traveller 
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 Topic: 70's albums with advanced sounding keyboards
Posted: July 11 2014 at 23:22 |
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There's a few albums from the seventies that have synthesizers that to me sound a bit ahead of their time. A few examples include:
ELP-Brain salad surgery
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
YES-Relayer
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here.
These are just a few off the top of my head. What else?
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Posted: July 11 2014 at 23:36 |
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Many of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and even Pink Floyd offered albums displaying brilliant synth technology.
Curved Air also, with Francis Monkman's thirst for experimentalism.......
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 00:43 |
Genesis displayed advanced sounding keyboards
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound Genesis - The Lamb
And a few others by them 
Edited by ProgMetaller2112 - July 12 2014 at 00:44
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 01:14 |
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I would agree with Lamb but not SEBTP as far as having advanced sounding keyboards. The lamb really kicks things up a notch from having no synths just a few years before. Tony seems to go crazy on the Lamb.
Also, I agree with Tangerine Dream.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 02:51 |
 Prog_Traveller wrote:
There's a few albums from the seventies that have synthesizers that to me sound a bit ahead of their time. A few examples include:
ELP-Brain salad surgery
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
YES-Relayer
Pink Floyd-Wish you were here.
These are just a few off the top of my head. What else? |
It's not by chance. BBS was the first album featuring a polyphonic synth, the prototype of the Polymoog (credited as 'the Moog polyphonic ensemble' as it included also the monophonic solo synth Lyra which was also a unique instrument). On Relayer Moraz used also a unique synth, the triple-manual Vako Orchestron operating with optical disc technology. As for Wish You Were Here I also think that it marked a sound maturity for the band capitalising on all they had learnt during the recording of DSOTM. I'm not too familiar with the equipment used in Autobahn but I'm not surprised either since sound innovation was one of the defining traits of Kraftwerk.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 02:55 |
Prog_Traveller wrote:
I would agree with Lamb but not SEBTP as far as having advanced sounding keyboards. The lamb really kicks things up a notch from having no synths just a few years before. Tony seems to go crazy on the Lamb.
Also, I agree with Tangerine Dream. |
Have you heard The Cinema Show? That has a fantastic display of keyboards. Just listen in
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 03:34 |
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Klaus Schulze's X is about as advanced sounding as keyboards got in the 70s. Hell, they still sound remarkably fresh and innovative today. That is quite the feat considering just how much the electronic branch of music has changed and evolved over the years. There is a million miles between Burial and the esoteric stuff people were digging back then. Million!
X is like a trip to space with a German sonic version of Stanley Kubrick.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 03:57 |
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How about talking to other people instead of always machinegunning vids and covers?
This forum tries it's best to be about intergalactic communication and music, not so much about spamming.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 04:23 |
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Jean Paul Sartre once coined the infamous epithet Hell is other People. He was of course long dead by the time Mr & Mrs Svetonio decided to bequeath their connubial fruit to an unsuspecting world. JPS was wrong. Hell is a nightclub where Svetonio is the resident DJ on the video jukebox. Said technology is wireless and oxygen powered so cannot be disabled. The establishment has no doors, they don't even have a liquor license and the chicks all look like the results of a miscegnation between Michael Myers and a hamster.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 04:47 |
ExittheLemming wrote:
Jean Paul Sartre once coined the infamous epithet Hell is other People. He was of course long dead by the time Mr & Mrs Svetonio decided to bequeath their connubial fruit to an unsuspecting world. JPS was wrong. Hell is a nightclub where Svetonio is the resident DJ on the video jukebox. Said technology is wireless and oxygen powered so cannot be disabled. The establishment has no doors, they don't even have a liquor license and the chicks all look like the results of a miscegnation between Michael Myers and a hamster.
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JPS was not wrong, because your comments prove that you can imagine anything you want by "other People", everything that is out of our own control. Mine would be "Hell is radio, secondary smoke, publicity, dust and maybe serial killers..." By the way, "Svetonio" is our own lad on Prog Archives? 
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 04:53 |
The Who - Who's Next had remnants of Pete Townsend's Lighthouse Project that was very advanced for its time (about 1971)
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:00 |
I really don't see a problem with these beautiful, b.c. graphics..
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:06 |
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:07 |
rdtprog wrote:
ExittheLemming wrote:
Jean Paul Sartre once coined the infamous epithet Hell is other People. He was of course long dead by the time Mr & Mrs Svetonio decided to bequeath their connubial fruit to an unsuspecting world. JPS was wrong. Hell is a nightclub where Svetonio is the resident DJ on the video jukebox. Said technology is wireless and oxygen powered so cannot be disabled. The establishment has no doors, they don't even have a liquor license and the chicks all look like the results of a miscegnation between Michael Myers and a hamster.
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JPS was not wrong, because your comments prove that you can imagine anything you want by "other People", everything that is out of our own control. Mine would be "Hell is radio, secondary smoke, publicity, dust and maybe serial killers..." By the way, "Svetonio" is our own lad on Prog Archives?
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BTW many generals are deservedly murdered by their own troops.What's the view like from inside your own backside?
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