Category: music
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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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Classic Electronics: Force Majeure – Tangerine Dream (1979)
Tangerine Dream is one of the bands that shaped my taste in electronic music. Apparently, the key musicians still perform together but have changed their style over the years. Their first few albums in the early 70’s are somewhat unlistenable as they are mostly long pieces of electronic noises which sounded futuristic at the time.…
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Cowbell Music
When you think of Swiss cowbell, you would imagine a quite annoying, loud – dong, dong, dong sound. Apparently not so in the field. The closest I can think of is the sound made by a wind chime. It also evokes the musical sound of Indonesian Gamelan. They make a continuous tinkering sound, dissonant and…