heavy usage of synthesizers?
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Topic: heavy usage of synthesizers?
Posted By: snipingpanda14
Subject: heavy usage of synthesizers?
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 08:47
| I really enjoy hearing synths in music that isn't electronica or pop, and love them in prog. I was wondering if there were any prog bands outside of electronic with keyboards dominated by synthesizers. |
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 09:01
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Derek Sherinian's album 'Planet X' Jordan Rudess' album 'feeding the wheel' and the obvious ELP, Triumvirat and The Enid for some classic prog. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Chozal
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 11:57
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I don't know if Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream still qualify -they are both prog acts and electronic acts (though not really electronica). Check out Jarre as well. Rick Wakeman does sound like he fits the criteria as well :3 ------------- https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Infinite-Progability-Drive/141225469388975" rel="nofollow - The Infinite Progability Drive , feeding you daily progressive/weird music for just a like <3 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 15:04
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Todd Rundgren's Utopia were very synth-heavy -- try "Todd Rundgren's Utopia" and "RA". At least as much synth as guitar, and in a classic prog mode. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 15:57
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Projects featuring Eddie Jobson : - UK's self-tiltled and 'danger money'. - Eddie Jobson's 'Zinc'. - UKZ's 'radiation' Anders Helmerson's 'Triple Ripple'. Cairo's self-titled, 'conflict and dreams' and 'time legend'. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: March 24 2013 at 19:44
| Mike Oldfield's albums from Five Miles Out to Earth Moving were Fairlight albums. Ditto Kate Bush's albums from Never For Ever through The Sensual World, and the album Identity by Zee (Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, and Dave Harris of Fashion). Peter Gabriel's albums from Security onwards are synth-heavy. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 02:43
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It really shouldn't get to the 6th post for someone to mention ELOY best albums for synths are Planets and Time To Turn. Those are two parts of a concept. There is also the excellent Colours album. They were all recorded in the early eighties |
Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 12:27
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Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship synth rock power!!!
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 13:02
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Hi, Seventh Wave -- both albums ... and they toured with 7 keyboard players here in America! Make sure you play them LOUD ... and in the best fidelity you can find ... because the keyboard washes and sounds are fabulous and then some! And the music is pretty good too! Todd Rundgren -- Only the "Wizard" album on that fun side is a keyboard assault that is excellent ... but it probably all goes to the credit of Jean Yves Labat, not Todd ... because Todd never redid anything like it, though "The Eye-con" has some nice bits and pieces, on one of the Utopia albums. The "Wizard/True Star" album is a must have for progressive folks ... and a fun one too! There are many others and the 70's and early 80's were chock full of keyboard folks in Europe that experimented a lot ... and in many different styles and variations in work. Some weird, some strange, as usual. I would have to go through my stuff to be able to list them for you.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 25 2013 at 16:26
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The OP asked for:
I personally like a lot of the artists being recommended but I think he is looking for something closer to electronica Trouble is there is very little that fits the bill that I've heard Triumvirat for instance is way off the mark. Even ELP only made one album that fits close to what is being asked for. (Brain Salad Surgery). Rick Wakeman's music isn't synth dominated from what I've heard. If so that brings in a hell of a lot of stuff including most of the symph prog genre which is vast. What keyboard players here didn't use synths?! Mike Oldfield is not electronic prog . not even Songs Of Distant Earth which is beautiful all the same Anders Helmerson - again a nice fast jazzy album with Steven Wilson's current drummer featured.Its good but not close to 'electronica'. I would chuck in Nick Magnus - Inhaling Green as a possible option. That has loads of synths and is close to Vangelis (Blade Runner / Direct) at times |
snipingpanda14 wrote:Posted By: zoviet
Date Posted: April 03 2013 at 00:05
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Rush's Moving Pictures and Signals are very heavy synth dominated. great!!! |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 03 2013 at 01:49
I think in this instance you would have to look at all their albums from 1980 to 1985 Permanent Waves (1980) kicked it all of ( Jacobs Ladder  ) and Power Windows as a complete album finished it off. I think they moved away from this because Lifeson got the hump about his guitar being relegated to being a secondary instrument while the synths dominated.Not a bad suggestion. Best and most representative track from that era? - Subdivisions imo
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Posted By: Aragon
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 05:53
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All the band proposed are in Electronic fields, except Eloy, Rush and the 2 player keyboard of Dream Theather, so i suggest to try Eric Norlander solo project You should try Aragon, plenty of synthesizers and the singer is awesome, he sing like Fish in his much angry moments!!! But if u like symphonic progressive rock i recomend u Solaris ------------- http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 08 2013 at 14:24
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Artension (prog-metal) and the solo works of Vitalij Kuprij (less-prog metal) Vangelis (many different periods but you can find the most suitable for your tastes. Start with Albedo 0.39) Try some Senmuth, too(experimental/post-Metal). Hundred of albums downloadable for free to check. Archive are worth as well (are they post? I don't remember the subgenre) Other have already been mentioned ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 08 2013 at 15:42
he is looking for prog bands outside of electonica but that use synths over and above say organ and piano. None of Vangelis solo music is like this and with Aphoidtes Child he didn't use synths at all. That leaves Socrates and the album Phos but he only played on a couple of tracks I think. This features some trademark Vangelis synths |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 08 2013 at 15:54
I have tried to point out some synths from various subgenres. About Vangelis Invisible Connections is pure electronics, but Mask may fit. Also Soil Festivities has much synth and is not properly electronics, Don't you think that China can fit, too? ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: April 08 2013 at 16:51
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 01:41
Not really as the point is Vangelis rarely works within a band format which is what the OP is looking for I believe. BUT if we are going there then I would suggest the album Direct which has a bit more clout and might be of interest and possibly See You Later. Mask is a superb album but I don't think that would fit tbh. Soil Festivities is a very nice relaxing album but I would put it with Opera Sauvage and L'Apocalypse Des Animaux as beautiful atmospheric music on the side of ambient rather than electronica.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 12:06
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I wouldn't suggest See You Later which I consider to be the poorest album released by Vangelis. Direct and The City are excellent and...well I'm a sort of fanboy, so everything fits for me... ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 14:32
Never understand why that album is so disliked. Vangelis was never one to be tied down just to one thing. If OMD and Vangelis ever collaborated then the result would be this |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 14:37
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The reason why I dislike it is mainly in the track Suffocation which I find ridiculous (also because I'm Italian and I understand the crap that Krisma say, and Jon Anderson in the last minute of the track is surely not enough. It has some goods, indeed. The first version of Memories of Green which was reused on Blade Runner is a great track, but I find the rest of the album quite awful. I'm a fan since Heaven and Hell, the first Vangelis album that I have purchased, and See You Later is the only album that I have never kept on the turntable for all its length, also because I always skip Suffocation. Of course, I hated Enola Gay. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 02:02
yeah it probably helps that I can't understand Italian  I thought you would pick Not a bit , all of it as the 'dud' track. That was maybe Vangelis doing an ELP type 'fun track'.  btw I loved Enola Gay
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 04:18
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 04:41
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OP trye out Gary Wright he is sort of art rocky with loads of synth and his album Dreamweaver is recomedned to all fans of synth based art rock fans. -------------  
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 14:01
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Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 15:02
One suggestion that may fly under the radar is Genesis's..And Then There Were Three. Full of moogy snythed moments. Down and Out song is one of my favorites. ------------- 
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Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 15:35
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Anything from Sleeping in Traffic Part 1, Sleeping in Traffic Part 2 and Mammoth. (and everything in between, I'd assume. Only really familiar with those three.)
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Posted By: Neon Eyes
Date Posted: April 10 2013 at 17:03
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It`s not prog, but some of early Gary Numan stuff sounds proggy...Also some The Sparks songs... Someone mention Tangerine Dream...I could mention some Space tunes (old French electronica with prog and fussion touch)...Serbian keyboard player Laza Ristovski has a few great synth oriented prog albums. In fussion prog waters, i would recomend Dutch band Anomaly (they have recorded only one but great instrumental album with fascinating keyboard parts that are a little bit more represented than guitars)...I have also consider Saga, IQ, Arena and early Marillion as more keyboard oriented bands. Maybe some composers that write non prog parts with many prog and psichodelic elements inside, like jerry Goldsmith in the movie Logan`s Run. Gerschon Kingsley, Jeff wayne and Alan parsons has many synth oriented prog elements in many songs. Mike Oldfield also. What about Jan Hammer`s music for Miami Vice and lot`s of music for 80`es sitcoms and movies. Eric Norlander is pure example of most synth prog parts in his music. Maybe some A.C.T. songs.... Arjen Lucassen songs too...Check also Beto Vasquez albums and Canadian band Birthday Massacre (not prog; they are synth rock but have some prog elements...). |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 01:58
China was my favourite Vangelis album for a long time. Its probably the best balanced of all his albums and you are taken on journey through electronica , traditional sounding Chinese music and the very wonderful atmospeheric Himalaya. The only albums I put above it are El Greco ( solid gold masterpeice) , Voices ( just so warm and lovely) and Mask ( his best imo). To make a top five I would add Heaven and Hell. I love And Then There Were Three probably as much for the drumming as anything. Banks was never big on using synths like Emerson or Wakeman did. Probably a good shout for his best synth album though.
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 03:51
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This is slightly transforming into a Vangelis appreciation thread Out of Greece, what about the Slovakian Collegium Musicum? ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 15:23
^ Yes it does... . I had not heard of Collegium Musicum before, from what I have just read on them here in PA, I am going to have to check them out. Thanks for the mention!
^^El Greco is one that I have not heard, even after all these years...I guess I need to get that too  .-------------
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 11 2013 at 16:07
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A couple of samples from Konvergencie On this genre also Par Lindh May be interesting (a bit too Emersonian for me) Then Niacin is another name which comes to my mind. This clip starts playing music after minute 1:20 Well, I realize that there's a lot of organ and almost no synth...  So let me post also this.l He has been rejected from PA, but I think he would deserve a place: Isao Tomita ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: AEProgman
Date Posted: April 12 2013 at 23:16
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^ Collegium was excellent, on the ever growing list. I am familiar with Naicin, gotta love that Hammond! Par Lindh I had not heard of but still good, but can see where that would get old quick... Isao reminded me a lot of Kitaro, which I used to get into a while back...the sound is similar. This thread has led me back to listening to Vangelis again as I had forgotten how much I like his stuff, got into Spiral today as well as Heaven and Hell...good stuff! I have to get a few others of his that I never got, El Greco, Soil Festivities for starters. -------------
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 02:42
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Tangerine Dream have made some very decent albums in recent years having come out of their 90's stagnation period. I like Booster , Seven Letters From Tibet , Views From A Red Train , Purgatorio and the recent Edgar Allen Poe's Island Of The Fay. Thankfully they have now rid themselves of the horrible saxaphone that has no place in electronic music imo. I'm going to check out their latest release Finnegan's Wake today. Samples sound good.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 07:54
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Here's one by Tony McPhee, forsaking his trademark progressive blues guitar for banks of synthesisers for a 20 minute epic (this is indeed very heavy, though not in in the sense of the OP question): ------------- What? |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 08:29
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Check out early IQ, especially "The Wake" and "Tales from the Lush Attic", loads of synthesizer solos. Also recordings of "Pictures from an Exhibition" by both ELP and Tomita. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: ytsename
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 11:40
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 14:35
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^ empty post ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 15:08
Thought I was the only one who remotely liked OMD. I don't love Enola Gay but I love the album it comes from Organisation. It was recorded after the death of Ian Curtis and they knew Joy Division quite well so the album came out pretty dark (once you get past Enola Gay which is not exactly happy).
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 13 2013 at 15:14
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^ count me among OMD lovers, especially their album 'architecture & morality'. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 14 2013 at 02:19
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OMD used Mellotron which made them a bit of secret prog band on the sly.
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 14 2013 at 02:48
I saw OMD in 1979 and it was like watching wallpaper, Winston was the only band member with any stage presence. ------------- What? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 14 2013 at 07:13
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Weird thing is, the intro to OMD's Souvenir still sends delicious shivers down my 50 year old spine yet (dunno) Is it better to regret doing something than regretting not doing same? ------------- 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: April 14 2013 at 08:25
I don't think that McCluskey's post OMD involvement in music or the lack off any discernible stage presence (or personality) shouldn't take anything away from the music. Having said that there is a case for McCluskey's 'dancing' putting OMD into music's Room 101.
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Posted By: lct
Date Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:09
| Late genesis gets pretty synth heavy when they went polyphonic |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 16 2013 at 01:26
Posted By: AEJOTZ
Date Posted: August 17 2013 at 21:07
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My synth music is not "electronica" because it is not played by machine.
Sometimes I use automated basic rhythms but all else is hand-played on keyboard synths.
It's not pop. It's not "ambient." And it's not "experimental" in the usual sense of some non-musician making non-melodic noises with electronic equipment.
My music is made of layers of relatively simple melodic lines that over time grow in harmonic and polyrhythmic complexity. The music is repetitive but ever-changing, not unlike Ravel's Bolero or Pachelbel's Canon in D. When the tune isn't changing, the sounds are changing.
Some of the tunes are light, some are darker. I play whatever mood I'm feeling. The tunes are improvised at the time of recording with no planning and no goal in mind. They way they turn out always surprises me.
You can hear all my synthesizer music free at http://aejotz.com" rel="nofollow - http://aejotz.com
It's not prog but you can hear prog influence now and then. When I first made this kind of music in '83 I was listening to practically nothing but early Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Kansas, Renaissance, Triumvirat, Procol Harum, Tull, Nektar, Yes, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, Brand X, stuff like that.
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Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 01:10
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Not sure if this fits the bill for the OP but some of my fave synth heavy albums... Schick Furs & Frohling (SFF) : Symohonic Pictures, Sunburst Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Klaus Schulze - Picture Music Tomita - Pictures at an Exhibition, Snowflakes Are Dancing Richard Pinhaus - Chronolyse ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 10:21
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Hi,
Tomita is one of the best interpreters of classical music there is on synthesizers. His version of "The Firebird Suite" is phenomenal, as is his first album on Debussy. And his version of "Pictures at an Exhibition" is very nice as well.
Looks like you guys got a few listed ... here are some more:
Ange - Early days had 2 keyboard players, and they meshed pretty well.
Eberhard Schoenner - although his work became increasingly more classical, and less experimental or rock.
Robert Schroeder - And you gotta get that album that plays at 45RPM and at 33RPM ... which makes both those pieces phenomenal ... one is teutonic hardcore stuff that elicits dark images and scary feelings, and the other is a wonderful piece otherwise. This is a MUST ALBUM FOR COLLECTORS, by the way, and was one of the first on KS's label, btw!
Clearlight Symphony/Cyreille Verdoux - Very nice stuff
Stomu Yamash'ta (spelling) - On his later days did some meditation stuff that was pretty nice.
Rick Wakeman in his solo albums (or Yes, for that matter) - although I am not a great fan of his solo stuff beyong the original Henry VIII.
Terry Riley - One of the riginal synthesizer composers, although I tend to think that some of the material came off a bit classically minded for my tastes when compared to others.
Beaver and Krause - Original experimental folks on the sunthesizers, did some wonderful things that got copied and used by many others out there ... see how many of their pieces you can find, and where!
Wish I had heard more of the keyboard work that Eurock and Archie P offer all the time over the last 20 years ... there is a lot of really far out stuff in there, and I have no idea who they are ... but a lot of it is keyboard heavy, which I think is Archie's preference.
AshRa - Manuel Gottsching involves a lot of synthesizer in the work he does along his guitar. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 10:40
I tend to not mention these as much since they are, for the most part rock music for the airwaves. Mahavishnu and Return to Forever, never really made it to radio, other than the more with it jazz stations, which only exist in the big cities, like LA ... and even then, they can play these nowadays, but it was not played then, and it was amazing that they got the recognition that they deserved, despite radio ... talk about progressive, and eventually showing that it could be done without radio ... but Stanley and Chick had already made their name in the field by that time! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 18 2013 at 19:56
Are you referring to Harmonic Ascendant? I have Time Waves, Computer Voice, Brain Voyager and Driftin'. I also had Paradise and Pegasus but I didn't feel they were very good, though many Berlin School aficionados love everything by Robert. I still haven't heard H.A.. Are you familiar with Michael Garrison? Sadly, he passed away some years ago and his albums are out of print. If you look around, you can secure a copy of his 1979 classic, In The Regions Of Sunreturn. Here's "The Voyage." ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: September 23 2013 at 09:38
Aragon guitarist seems to stick to blues scales while keyboard's harmonic vocabulary is richer. The voice Axl Rose XPeter Hammil sounds "sensitive angry", that is when a sedate man gets angry. Powerful ! Solaris is intense but also cool/laid back , I found it conveying more joy than what I'd expect in early 80's synth instrumental albums. Solaris playing to a happy crowd ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: September 23 2013 at 12:14
Scary combination.  ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: aarongoldich
Date Posted: November 23 2013 at 07:54
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Try Ampledeed
This is actually a band that I am in, but is heavily driven by diverse keyboard sounds and stylings. http://www.ampledeed.com/ampledeed_004.htm |
Posted By: genbanks
Date Posted: November 24 2013 at 15:16
ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU...THESE ALBUMS ARE SUPERB!
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Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 24 2013 at 18:04
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^^^If you love melodic space-rock with prevalent synths, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better band than Eloy! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Date Posted: November 25 2013 at 18:46
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If you want some newer music in this vein, Maserati's Pyramid of the Sun album has a lot of vintage '70s-style sequencers but used in the context of a guitar-driven style that also draws on '80s new wave and contemporary post-rock scenes. ------------- "The past is not some static being, it is not a previous present, nor a present that has passed away; the past has its own dynamic being which is constantly renewed and renewing." - Claire Colebrook |
Posted By: iamathousandapples
Date Posted: November 25 2013 at 19:14
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Pendragon's The Masquerade Overture has a lot of different synths and sounds amazing
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