Category: music

  • Classic Electronics: Oxygène IV – Jean-Michel Jarre (1977)

                             Click on the cover to start listening to Oxygène IV. Oxygène by Jean-Michel Jarre is one of my all-time favorite album.  I heard Part IV first on the British singles chart in 1977, and made me a fan of electronic instrumental music.  The album has 6 tracks, named by numbers sequentially, and can be

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  • Classic Electronics: Memories of green – Vangelis (1982)

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg0cmhjdiLs&w=510&h=412] This music is part of the Blade Runner soundtrack. It matched the mood of the movie perfectly. The treated piano sounding a little bit cold and off tone is layered on top of a warm melody, which together suggests the sadness of the human clone and its slight imperfection.  The blips and woosh give

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  • Gotan Project in Lausanne, September 2, 2011

    Great performances. Small venue (Theatre d’Octagonal in Pully). No warmup band. The music started 5 minutes after the stated time – they are in Switzerland afterall. Played from Lunatico: “Diferente” – the backdrop came from Diferente music video (see youtube video below). This is the official video for Diferente on Youtube. Gotta love Argentine tango.

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  • Classic Electronics: Das Model – Kraftwerk (1981)

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQIYEPe6DWY&w=510&h=316] Kraftwerk has to be one of my all-time favorite. This is one of the most melodic and widely sampled piece by Kraftwerk.  They released a German and an English version, and it reached No.1 in the UK singles chart in February 1982. Coldplay sampled The Model’s melody, see you can hear it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0uqLM1uj_k&w=510&h=316] I

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