Progressive Electronic music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3oItpVa9fs

I like it so thats the main thing although my credit credit card is getting a real hammering at the moment

richardh wrote: Spiral has 3 great Vangelis classic tracks - the title track , To The Unknown Man and Dervish D. The rest of it not so good. Direct is a basically a summation of all Vangelis work on one album. I like it a lot although I think there are several better Vangelis albums. Probably the easiest Vangelis album to get into but a long way from his more unique slightly experimental  albums such as Beauborg and Mask. Direct was also his first album that he recorded after his move back to Greece from living in the UK for 10 years or so. A completely new synth keyboard set up although I'm not sure you would really know from listening to it.

I remember how much I liked Direct when I first picked it up (on cassette!!!) in '88. I also noticed the track I liked best, "Dial Out," was a "CD Bonus Track." Really nice album, overall.

Now Michael look what you made me do. I just listened to Direct on the tube. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLC4lRA2N8A

It is more symphonic than I remember. What memories it brings back for me. There is also an operatic moment on it. I do like it better than Spiral.

Hey Jim/AEP! Dave is spot on in his recommendations, and in particular I have a lot of love for Schulze's `Blackdance' album, one of my absolute favourites. I think I wrote some raving and drooling 5 star review for it a couple of years back!

Speaking of Vangelis, I recently bought the remaster of his 1977 album `Spiral'....and was totally underwhelemed. Although for it's time it was probably the first of his more laid-back synth works, it's slightly cheesy and repetitive. Very disappointed, but then I've only given it one listen so far.

Thankfully a year later he would put out the uncompromising and insane `Beaubourg', followed by better works such as `China' and `Opera Sauvage'.

Jim, they're not in any way electronic albums, but his early works such as `Hypothesis' (quirky avant-garde jazz?), `The Dragon' (Krautrock, and another 5 star album for me) and `L'Apocalypse des Animaux' (a stunning ambient/sorrowful jazz/low-key electronica work) are all incredible, I'd suggest giving them a listen. I've been told `Earth' is also a good one from that period, but haven't come across a copy on either CD or LP at any of my record fairs yet.

Can I please ask anyone on here - Can they recommend a late 80s Vangelis album called `Direct'? One of the vendors at a local record fair that I frequently buy from has had this album on remastered CD and I've left it behind a few times in a row, but I'm curious...is it worth getting?

Even though I have a lot of TD's stuff, but for some reason I had not heard or purchased any of Klaus Schulze's stuff until yesterday I got Timewind...Excellent!

richardh wrote: verslibre wrote: Just to throw this out there, the brand new limited (only 1500 units pressed) remaster of Tangerine Dream's great 1983 film score Wavelength is out. The CD contains unique versions of compositions recorded by the Froese-Franke-Schmoelling line-up of the band as well as original music (including one piece not used in the film). http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Wavelength.html I have my copy and the remaster job is superb. It makes a great standalone album with unique versions of tracks sourced from Pergamon, Tangram, Exit along with original pieces like "Alien Goodbyes" and "Spaceship." The analog SOUNDS are exquisite! This was an exciting time for the band and the original Varese Sarabande CD is long out of print. Edgar didn't grant a new interview for the liner notes but he did give this remaster his blessing. The liner notes do provide a detailed essay on the music itself and many insights on the making of the film. Well worth the $16! Thanks for the heads up. I did notice this on Amazon and dismissed it because of the price and didn't realise it was a 1983 release.  I've ordered it because I love the other soundtrack they did around this time (Firestarter) and also TD a brilliant job with the Kyoto release. Its cost me a bit more than the $16 because of shipping charges which for me are $10. The total cost is $22 for me. Better be worth it

Edited by richardh - April 23 2014 at 16:36

Goblin's Suspiria is of the European Progressive Electronic music style. Tangerine Dream traveled through this mode many times and especially in the late 70's when they actually hired a real drummer for the sessions. With Edgar Froese's guitar work , the swirling electronics, the bizzare tapes of laughter and the recordings of howling wolves combined with a real drummer, it's very much in vain of Goblin's structure. Roller and Zombi are worthwhile Goblin releases. Profondo Rosso is slightly dated in the sense that it presents the old contrived avant-garde formula used on for example the Columbo series. Not ever reaching the level of Bernard Hermann ..it was a cheesy sounding Avant-Garde method to appeal to a larger crowd who viewed T.V. shows after arriving home from a complicated day at the office. It's when everyone is plucking or blowing into an instrument to create a hokey sound or coming across with a film score for tragic scenes that purposely sounds stupied for the sake of enlightment. I can deal with this aspect to Profondo Rosso because I love Goblin. Not much value in that statement correct? The band reunited 6 or 7 years ago , producing a new studio album...which is very progressive electronic in every sense of the word. I don't recall it's title. I wasn't particularly fond of this so called "mid-period" where the band released Patrick and several others that began to sound a bit too close in soundtrack form for my taste ..where earlier in the band's career many of their soundtrack releases simply came across like an instrumental Progressive Rock album. That's what I loved about them and when that changed...I was no longer devoted. Suspiria ..which is often catagorized with it's sound effects, chanting witches..etc...to the process in writing film score. Logically...yes..it is. However...other Prog bands in history have written epics/concept albums that include the same abundance of effects and atmosphere as Goblin and are defined as Prog Rock and not compared to the soundtrack mentality. You have to listen to Goblin once or twice in a sitting and dismiss the fact that the music was written for a movie. Several of their releases are very Progressive Rock and not Soundtrack oriented.

verslibre wrote: Just to throw this out there, the brand new limited (only 1500 units pressed) remaster of Tangerine Dream's great 1983 film score Wavelength is out. The CD contains unique versions of compositions recorded by the Froese-Franke-Schmoelling line-up of the band as well as original music (including one piece not used in the film). http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Wavelength.html I have my copy and the remaster job is superb. It makes a great standalone album with unique versions of tracks sourced from Pergamon, Tangram, Exit along with original pieces like "Alien Goodbyes" and "Spaceship." The analog SOUNDS are exquisite! This was an exciting time for the band and the original Varese Sarabande CD is long out of print. Edgar didn't grant a new interview for the liner notes but he did give this remaster his blessing. The liner notes do provide a detailed essay on the music itself and many insights on the making of the film. Well worth the $16!

Edited by richardh - April 14 2014 at 01:34

Just to throw this out there, the brand new limited (only 1500 units pressed) remaster of Tangerine Dream's great 1983 film score Wavelength is out. The CD contains unique versions of compositions recorded by the Froese-Franke-Schmoelling line-up of the band as well as original music (including one piece not used in the film).

http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Wavelength.html


I have my copy and the remaster job is superb. It makes a great standalone album with unique versions of tracks sourced from Pergamon, Tangram, Exit along with original pieces like "Alien Goodbyes" and "Spaceship." The analog SOUNDS are exquisite! This was an exciting time for the band and the original Varese Sarabande CD is long out of print. Edgar didn't grant a new interview for the liner notes but he did give this remaster his blessing. The liner notes do provide a detailed essay on the music itself and many insights on the making of the film. Well worth the $16!