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The Sin of Synth
I do believe its time we had a thread devoted to the discussion, appreciation, disparaging and education of synth music in all its wonders.
Some favorites. Most of them come from the movies and the TV. Jan Hammer It's Over - Cocaine Cowboys Payback - Miami Vice Crockett's theme - Miami Vice Harold Faltermeyer The Running Man theme Top Gun theme Giorgio Moroder Midnight Express theme Chase - Midnight Express Tony's theme - Scarface Tears (OK, no synth but damn!) Donna Summer - I Feel Love Vince DiCola Training Montage - Rocky IV Ivan Drago Suite Laura_Branigan - Self Control Glass Candy - Digital Versicolor Chromatics - Shining Violence Can anyone list more or superior examples than the above? Perhaps some from old anime or a cruddy VHS fitness video? |
Most in keeping with the spirit of Moroder, Italians Do It Better, et al -
M83 - Midnight City The fucking synth lead at the end the world enters at 3:15 - LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version) |
Kavinsky - Nightcall. It's the most recent one I can think of!
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The FEZ soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks that came out recently.
Any of Vangelis's stuff where he mixed classical piano with synth is totally awesome. The Mysterious Cities of Gold had some really cool sounding tracks. I really love 80s weirdness like that. The Ultima: Exodus Remix album has some really cool 80s synth sounds. The Eternal Castle Britannia has this really rich tone to the synth mixed with (synthesized? sampled?) camera sounds which works somehow, I dunno, it's weird. |
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I've never even seen Miami Vice! I know him from Mahavishnu and his solo work and Al DiMeola team-up stuff. I guess I just never looked further into his work.
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man, ravinoff's gonna go nuts when he sees this thread. I can't wait to listen to all of this when I get home!
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Tangerine Dream has their ups and downs, but I really like Canyon Dreams, their answer to Koyaanisqatsi. Also Tangram, Turn of the Tides, and Mars Polaris, and their most disturbing album, Zeit.
The soundtrack to Einhander, by Black Mages keyboardist Kenichiro Fukui, is right awesome. One of the great things about that game is how the music is cued up to the auto-scrolling action. |
Great input, class. There's stuff I can't believe didn't come to mind instantly like Tangerine Dream. The entire Drive soundtrack counts obviously. Nicolas Winding Refn needs to share his entire iPod playlist with the whole world at this point.
Some songs that I like very much from the Tekken 4 soundtrack sound sort of synthy to me. Airport and Authentic Sky are awwwwesome. =O |
Jon Anderson and Vangelis: The Friends of Mister Cairo
Anamanaguchi: Airbase (ultimate Mega Man 2 pastiche) Jethro Tull: Black Sunday Rush: The Camera Eye Camel: Lady Fantasy Yellow Magic Orchestra: Technopolis (but really, anything by YMO) |
Love Spy is also super great (sgreat)
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No, but I use them in our podcasts sometimes...?
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You might know the Human League from "Don't You Want Me" but the rest of the album is really awesome.
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...I feel like all of the new age music my parents played when I was kid that wasn't Enya was just the Miami Vice soundtrack. It all sounded like that. Crockett's theme must've been on some Narada collection or something. It was on Pure Moods! Oh wait, I bought that...
My boyfriend's gotten me into Ladytron, which has a lot of fun synth-y sounds, especially in their earlier work, like True Mathematics. Although to be honest, while I have a lot of synth-y sounding stuff in my collection, I think they're mostly distorted sampling. It's kind of hard to tell sometimes! |
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I love John Carpenter's soundtracks, especially the Escape from New York theme.
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Is there anyone who doesn't genuinely enjoy Axel F? Because if you say you don't like it because it's overplayed or they used it on that one Family Guy, then I'll just have to kick your damn head off. In fact, if there's any reason you don't like Axel F, I'm still going to kick your damn head off.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.
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Dude, sometimes I think you're just not putting enough effort into your posts.
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That's because I don't give 90% of a shit. Now I regret changing it to the right song.
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