I surprised nobody has mentioned the movie "Bounty" -- Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins... such an eerie soundtrack. Beautiful.
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#132Chariots of Fire is iconic of course. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo I think my first encounter with his music was the Ernest & Julio Gallo wine commercials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mES7lzR9uFE Seems he should have been considerably older than 79.
And you can't mention the Ernest & Julio Gallo ads without a link to the voiceover guy / head of the ad agency Hal Riney. Another legend. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_lnwNIlJUo
When I was an online editor (video) in SF, I got to work with Hal Riney on several occasions. There was this joke among his agency staffers that, no matter what commercial he screened, if he hadn't voiced it himself, he always said (something like), "That's great. I'll re-voice it tomorrow."
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#133First Klaus Schulze and now Vangelis. So sad. Rest in peace!
Holy shit! I didn’t realize Klaus Schulze died too. Between these two and Edgar Froese, the world is rapidly losing electronic music greats. Please tell me Giorgio Moroder is still alive!
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#134Can somebody shed som light on Miami Vice song? I always thought it's Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis song, but apparently it is called Crocket's Theme by Jan Hammer
Miami Vice had two memorable tunes, miami vice title song, and the crocket's theme (more nostalgic like feel). Both were made by Jan Hammer. If you want to see cool stuff, checkout his "beyond Mind's Eye", one of the earliest 3d music videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zMtCvWhG0
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
》"Memories of Green" (from the album "See You Later") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW9D6agp794 That title and that album cover: a woman wearing bikini and low-light glasses for snow, with the sun on the back and broken floating ice. A prediction of climate change from 1980?
If the myths hold truths, the oil companies knew this was an issue in the '70s. By the late 80s the predictions had reached artists and musicians in the UK (how I know this is too convoluted and flakey for this thread). I was taught about climate change (the "greenhouse effect") as a young teen, early 90s. It's been canon for me since then. I have no problem believing that forward looking adults were talking about it…
I recall an early 80's Justice League episode which centered global warming.
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#136Imo, Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental novelty to an instrument for composition. The two sounds I associate with him are the long brassy triangle with a steep envelope that we know from both Blade Runner and the accompaniment to the piano in the Chariots of Fire theme, and his effective use of chimes. I have tickets for Olafur Arnalds next week, and there is a younger generation of composers like…
Blades runner had astonishing graphics as well, really haunting. Nowadays graphics like that are not that special but for time they were revolutionary. I just created some graphics of some animals in place of the legendary monologue of the movie.
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#137He was a very unique, visionary talent. To back that up, beyond his scores, take a look at the following video to get a glimpse of how he worked. https://youtu.be/GWggDMDhwIA There used to be some forum posts detailing the custom MIDI controllers and setup more, but it looks like a lot of it has been deleted or removed. I found this though: https://www.synthevolution.net/blog/2017/5/22/the-devils-wor...
Thank you for sharing those links! If Vangelis were a coder, he would have taken a Space Cadet Keyboard and extended it . 17 pedals...and on top of that, what appears to be a very broad custom notation / shorthand system. I can't tell if that notation acted more like keyboard macros or even more modifier keys.
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#138Back where I grew up, in the 90s, "La Petite Fille de la mer" played in between TV programs during the night. It was decades later that I learned who the composer was.
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#139Imo, Vangelis brought the synthesizer from an experimental novelty to an instrument for composition. The two sounds I associate with him are the long brassy triangle with a steep envelope that we know from both Blade Runner and the accompaniment to the piano in the Chariots of Fire theme, and his effective use of chimes. I have tickets for Olafur Arnalds next week, and there is a younger generation of composers like…
Who is the James in Aphex/James? I’m not sure if you mean to imply Richard D. James or a separate person (see Reznor/Ross).
Probably Richard David James aka Aphex Twin.
Reznor is a last name. Aphex is not. No 1:1 correspondence.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously, I can always tell a Hans Zimmer score without even having preknowledge that a film had hired him. Big, orchestral, boring score that repeats the same motifs he's been using for the last 50 years? Dude has one act.
Same to Chris Nolan actually, he should for once make a film that does not mess with the concept of time. At this point it has become a gimmick
Batman trilogy?