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When it comes to popular moog themed albums, Walter/Wendy marked new ground with that album, about ten years ago I found "Switched On Beethoven" which is dope as well.

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Rain Dance was on some computerized quantized shit

Listen to "Chameleon" and tell me that's not what makes the song.

(ditto for Sextant and Crossings)

but I'd probably put on something (strangely enough) like DEDICATION (with songs like "Nobu" and the weird take on "Cantaloupe Island" that is much unlike much other takes), SECRETS, or again... MR. HANDS (for "Spiraling Prism" and "Just Around The Corner").

HEADHUNTERS was the first real album where Herbie started to apply his own voice to the synth.

One of my all time favorites.

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Nail on the head.

GZA "Liquid Swords"/Raekwon "OB4TCL"
Tears For Fears "Songs From The Big Chair"
New Order "Low-Life"
Kraftwerk "The Man Machine" & "Trans Europe Express"
Giorgio Moroder "From Here To Eternity"
Air "Moon Safari"
Bowie "Station To Station"
Might be going into personal preference then universal but
Rush "Moving Pictures"
M83 "Before The Dawn Heals Us' & "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"
Elvis Costello "This Year's Models"

>New Order "Low-Life"
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I'd say Substance paints an overall better picture of their influence, but I understand not wanting to name a compilation.

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that album to someone wanting to study synth but know comps aren't albums and The Lesson loves debates.

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When I was in my mid-teens, the main library started to sell their least borrowed vinyl albums for like $1 each since cd's were taking over. They sold Subotnick's '71 "Sidewinder"-LP and I bought it just because it looked cool. It was pretty damn close to being near mint which is VERY rare when it comes to records in libraries-I suspect noone had ever borrowed it. Unfortunately, it's not worth anything I guess since there is this big Gothenburg Library plastic shit stamped on the cover which I of course had to rip off and it became ruined in the process, oh well...

Anyway, really cool stuff IMO even if I suspect many people would just call it noise and I just love the sounds those old synths have. There are pictures of the synths on the cover and it looks like a factory or something-they are SO big! That album is recommended...

FLT RSK - People and places

http://flightrisk.bandcamp.com/album/people-and-places

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Phaedra would be my pick. But pretty much anything from the 70's is good.

Probably not a "cool" choice in hindsight, but Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells seems pretty influential.

And Kraftwerk, obviously.

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It's hard to pick one of their albums but that's a good choice.

I grew up thinking she was a big star since my mom played her album "Celebration" all the time but later found out that it was only a big record in sweden and germany. Anyway, she was a nice and somewhat new agey folk-pop singer who for some reason started to mix that vibe with disco on the aforementioned album and possibly before that. Check this out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWn2kEs64yA

EDIT:This was the big hit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggDLFUndCU
vERY sappy but pretty too...

This song you linked is very Kate Bush-esque.

I have some investigating to do.

Thanks.

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As far as his albums go, I would def. recommend this but wouldn't stop there. The Time's WHAT TIME IS IT? also has a lot of this sound.

>You can interpret that anyway you want. This is a list
>post.



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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

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Was a bit hesitant to put bands like Neon Indian (Era Extrana), Com Truise or Washed Out (Life Of Leisure EP & Within and Without) b/c of the "essential" but definitely love the synths on those albums

>Was a bit hesitant to put bands like Neon Indian (Era
>Extrana), Com Truise or Washed Out (Life Of Leisure EP &
>Within and Without) b/c of the "essential" but definitely love
>the synths on those albums

Essential to me in this thread is simply "if you're a fan of synths, check these out".
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Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

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also from George Duke: THE AURA WILL PREVAIL and THE SOLO KEYBOARD ALBUM (aka THE DREAM, check the sig)

his little suite called "El Bozo" dominated a summer of mine years ago.

also on the RTF side of things, I'd definitely go w/The ROMANTIC WARRIOR. Words can't describe how geeked I was to hear the united RTF play "Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant" live (ABROCK33, weren't you there for that?)

it's from 1996, yet some of those tracks sound like they could have been recorded some 20 years prior. It can be a little "gamey" and at times borderline schmaltz. But I love what they did with Green Day's song.

I became familiar with this in the oddest way, Top Gear in its pre-2002 format used one of its songs as background music...

but yes, the System (and the acts they produced in the '80s) are very good examples of synth work in the period.

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1974 Snowflakes Are Dancing
1975 Pictures at an Exhibition (version of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky)
1975 Firebird (version of The Firebird by Stravinsky)
1976 The Planets (version of The Planets by Gustav Holst)
1978 Kosmos (originally released under the title Space Fantasy)
1978 Bermuda Triangle (inspired by the Bermuda Triangle) (5 channel stereo recording)

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“The other dude after me didn’t help my case. It was just like…crazy nigga factory going on.”
Dre makes no apologies for his own eccentricities. “I was young, and searching, trying to find myself,” he says. “Never did.”-- Andre B

>1974 Snowflakes Are Dancing
>1975 Pictures at an Exhibition (version of Pictures at an
>Exhibition by Mussorgsky)
>1975 Firebird (version of The Firebird by Stravinsky)
>1976 The Planets (version of The Planets by Gustav Holst)
>1978 Kosmos (originally released under the title Space
>Fantasy)
>1978 Bermuda Triangle (inspired by the Bermuda Triangle) (5
>channel stereo recording)

I got everyone of those albums (some I own 2 to 3 copies of too), everyone of them is great to listen to, what got me into Isao Tomita "The Planets" album, and since then I've been buying his albums (don't have his mid-80's to the 2000's ones yet but I will) but it's hard to say which one I like the most cause they're all good.

vangelis - ???

Rick James Cold blooded album

Michael Jackson dangerous

Bobby Brown don't be cruel


r.Kelly 12 play and self title album

stevie wonder hotter than july

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Because it's their most "new wave" sounding album (intentionally, most likely). It's like they realized their own influence and decided to imitate the imitators. Brilliant,

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it definitely changed the face of Dance Music forever.

It's without a doubt one of the essential building blocks of Chicago House, Detroit Techno and all of their respective offshoots.

...of favorite synth albums and in my top ten of just plain favorite albums period; it still sounds just as impressive as it did when I first heard it back in the day.

But I'm way too biased to pick just one of their albums.

The first four are so brilliant, I can't even. . .

. . .fuck it, Dazzle Ships.

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Kraftwerk "Computer World"
Walter Carlos "Switched On Bach"
Yellow Magic Orchestra "YMO" (the first side)
Isao Tomita "Live At Linz: The Mind Of The Universe"
Jon Hassell "Works Of Fiction"
Gary Numan "Pleasure Principle"
Herbie Hancock "Future Shock"
Paul Hardcastle "Rain Forest"
Art Of Noise "Who's Afraid Of A.O.N.?"
Flying Lotus "1983"

That album is amazing, he did some amazing things with synths on that album. I mean for it to rock that much with no guitars is quite a feat. Plus he was one of the first ppl to program their own

Also Art of Noise goes without saying

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I love the sounds on that album.

Not to be confused with the soundtrack.

...that one along with some obvious classics which have already been mentioned by Stevie Wonder (SEVERAL from that killer 70's run), Prince (1999)...

I'd also like to throw in a Parliament /Funkadelic record, though i'm not sure which one specifically yet...

as for the Flat Earth...not sure if folks will consider it a 'synth' album per-se'...and the thing i think i like about it actually is its seamless combination/merging of synth use WITH 'natural' instrument use...

..i think thats what i like about ALL of the ones above...they have the 'right' ratio of synth/natural mix...

as for mr Dolby, dont sleep....'Flat Earth' and 'Aliens Ate My Buick' are both still in regular rotation on my ipod...very creative interesting stuff that have been underrated in my opinion...

>...that one along with some obvious classics which have
>already been mentioned by Stevie Wonder (SEVERAL from that
>killer 70's run), Prince (1999)...
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>I'd also like to throw in a Parliament /Funkadelic record,
>though i'm not sure which one specifically yet...
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>as for the Flat Earth...not sure if folks will consider it a
>'synth' album per-se'...and the thing i think i like about it
>actually is its seamless combination/merging of synth use WITH
>'natural' instrument use...
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>..i think thats what i like about ALL of the ones above...they
>have the 'right' ratio of synth/natural mix...
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>as for mr Dolby, dont sleep....'Flat Earth' and 'Aliens Ate My
>Buick' are both still in regular rotation on my ipod...very
>creative interesting stuff that have been underrated in my
>opinion...
>
>

Lionel RIchie Can't slow down, Michael Jackson thriller,Bad and Dangerous.

Prince Controversy and 1999.

Cameo ALigator Woman.

Bar Kays Night Crusing

Kool and the Gang Emergency

Donald Fagan the Nightfly

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