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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:14
Everything listed so far is fairly typical analogue stuff from the '70s. Autobahn features the same synth that was used on Abbey Road. It's not until about 1977/78 that you start hearing 'futuristic' synths, because those same synths were still being used in the '80s.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:34
zravkapt wrote:
Everything listed so far is fairly typical analogue stuff from the '70s. Autobahn features the same synth that was used on Abbey Road. It's not until about 1977/78 that you start hearing 'futuristic' synths, because those same synths were still being used in the '80s.
Everything listed so far is fairly typical analogue stuff from the '70s. Autobahn features the same synth that was used on Abbey Road. It's not until about 1977/78 that you start hearing 'futuristic' synths, because those same synths were still being used in the '80s.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 05:42
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zravkapt wrote:
Everything listed so far is fairly typical analogue stuff from the '70s. Autobahn features the same synth that was used on Abbey Road. It's not until about 1977/78 that you start hearing 'futuristic' synths, because those same synths were still being used in the '80s.
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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 10:25
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Mike Oldfield's "Tubullar Bells".
I know - here's an idea - let's ignore the OP's request for albums that "have synthesizers that to me sound a bit ahead of their time" entirely and just list every 1970s album we can think of that has synths ... and of course all those that don't.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 10:36
Is it my hallucinations or has the thread title been changed from "advanced sounding synths" to "advanced sounding keyboards"?
I guess that most albums using advanced synths for their time sounded like having advanced-sounding synths.
At any rate I think that although not used by many Prog artists, the Yamaha GX-1 represented really a different sound, most evident in the change of sound ELP did with Works I.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 11:04
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At any rate I think that although not used by many Prog artists, the Yamaha GX-1 represented really a different sound, most evident in the change of sound ELP did with Works I.
Different yes. Advanced, no. Well maybe that's not fair. It was advanced in so much as it was a bit ahead of curve in providing the horrible 80's sounding snyths many of us have come to despise. The thin and souless sound of the GX-1 hasn't "stood the test of time" so much as it's come to "represent a time" like the Prophet or Roland Jupiter. ELP were not a better sounding band with the GX-1 no matter how well it suited Pirates.
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Posted: July 12 2014 at 13:10
zravkapt wrote:
Everything listed so far is fairly typical analogue stuff from the '70s. Autobahn features the same synth that was used on Abbey Road. It's not until about 1977/78 that you start hearing 'futuristic' synths, because those same synths were still being used in the '80s.
I don't know if I agree about the Abbey road comment but I do agree that in the late seventies a lot of cool synths were coming out. I feel it's a shame that prog was swept under the carpet around then(commercially speaking anyway)because the sounds were getting more interesting and high tech. All you have to do is listen to a lot of the new wave stuff coming around at that time to know what I'm talking about. Gary Numan's "cars" is a good example but there are others. It's almost as though the new wave bands(and later new age)had to pick up the keyboard slack left behind from the absent prog bands(due to no fault of the prog bands who were flushed down the toilet although that's another story).
At any rate I think that although not used by many Prog artists, the Yamaha GX-1 represented really a different sound, most evident in the change of sound ELP did with Works I.
Different yes. Advanced, no. Well maybe that's not fair. It was advanced in so much as it was a bit ahead of curve in providing the horrible 80's sounding snyths many of us have come to despise. The thin and souless sound of the GX-1 hasn't "stood the test of time" so much as it's come to "represent a time" like the Prophet or Roland Jupiter. ELP were not a better sounding band with the GX-1 no matter how well it suited Pirates.
I liked the sounds that Emerson coaxed from the GX1. It transformed the live Tiger in a Spotlight and almost salvages the rather hokey Memoirs of an Officer and Gentleman on the otherwise wretched Love Beeatch. Get hold of their Live from Nassau Coliseum from 1978 to hear how brilliantly it get's assimilated into the classic (and perhaps rather tired) Tarkus. For me it gave ELP a shot in the arm sonically and I can't imagine their brilliant version of Fanfare for the Common Man being possible without it.
Rick Van Der Linden (Ekseption/Trace) recorded a solo album entirely on the GXI in 1978 imaginatively titled GX1 which I would normally heartily recommend but for the fact it's completely sh*te
BTW didn't Stevie Wonder own a GX1? (what albums did he use it on?)
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