Do you love the synthesiser?

JupiterKid

Its just over 50 years since the worlds first popular electronic synthesiser, the Moog, was invented. It revolutionised music. From about 1970 onwards, the Moog and later makes of synthesiser made its presence in pop and rock music felt and paved the way for synth pop in the 1980s and techno in the 1990s. Bands like Kraftwerk, whose seminal work Autobahn (1974) showed the world what was possible with the synthesiser.

What is your favourite band/ tune with the synthesiser prominent?

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JupiterKid

Why is it that everyone on this forum is into 90s/00s techno and not early synth/ electronic music?:( After all, it paved the way for what came later.

Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Timewhys (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMRwiH9dJJ0

Hot Butter - Popcorn (1972)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc

Kraftwerk - Kometenmelodie (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHFlrXZmKQ

Gary Neumann - Cars (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw

mordeith

While I appreciate the legacy of the early synth bands I don't like the music. I also like metal music but not the early 80s stuff.

JupiterKid

Well, I think someone here has to stick up for early electronic music. This forum seems way, way, too skewed towards techno and post 1980s electronica.

Whiteout the Moog, ARP and VCS synthesisers there would be no techno. They paved they way and it's always important to know and appreciate your history.

mordeith

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, I think someone here has to stick up for early electronic music. This forum seems way, way, too skewed towards techno and post 1980s electronica.

Whiteout the Moog, ARP and VCS synthesisers there would be no techno. They paved they way and it's always important to know and appreciate your history.

I'm not saying you shouldn't. I have read numerous articles on the development of synths and find the hardware side fascinating. I just don't think much of the early music made with them. It's like computers. Lots of people haven't a clue about the early development of the personal computer. I used to have an Amstrad CPC but I wouldn't expect everyone to appreciate it now given how far things have come.

francois

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, I think someone here has to stick up for early electronic music. This forum seems way, way, too skewed towards techno and post 1980s electronica.

Whiteout the Moog, ARP and VCS synthesisers there would be no techno. They paved they way and it's always important to know and appreciate your history.

Always liked stuff from Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulz, Vangelis, Tomita, and earlier stuff going back to Walter Carlos, Silver Apples, United States of America, and even the more experimantal guys like Xenakis etc.
I can appreciate it isn't to everyone's taste especially the more experimental compositions
Check out this curiosity from 1962..don't be put off by the title, but you get the feeling Kratfwerk may have heard this, bloody years ahead of its time

mordeith

francois wrote: »

Check out this curiosity from 1962..don't be put off by the title, but you get the feeling Kratfwerk may have heard this, bloody years ahead of its time

I checked that out there. Seems the composer Robert Scott invented his own instruments and was an influence on Moog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvkcGlhwoo

unclebill98

I love synth music.

There is a new band in ireland called Circuit3, releases a synth pop type album last year and they had a few synth nights in Dublin. Scene seems to be rather underground in London but large enough.

gammygils

Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army (1979)

JupiterKid

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 2 (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q00HQwO2Sg

LFO1

Tangerine Dream, especially mid-late 70s
probably revolutionised the use of sequencers, although you can add Klaus Schulze into that whole Berlin School genre too.
If you want an entry point try Rubycon, then Ricochet and Encore for a masterclass in live analogue sequencing

briankrieger

I have 2 analog synths: Arturia Minibrute and Volca Bass. Sequencing them via MIDI using Ableton Live. They're better than any VST's

auplant

I'm into this much more than 90's synth. I made a numanesque track inspired by the sound of Jan Hammer and Gary Numan

iamstop

Thread needs more YMO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkkFST5qrLg