omg that surgery video
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 04:22 (ten years ago) link
I hope someone dubs over the surgery descriptions with dialog from the Blade Runner voiceover.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 04:53 (ten years ago) link
chariots of fire are the same tune as on top of old smokywho old smoky?
― massaman gai, Tuesday, 3 December 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
So the soundcloud links total about three hours' worth of music... I wonder if the other nine hours are anywhere online? Because this stuff is awesome.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 December 2013 00:31 (ten years ago) link
I could easily imagine there being dialogue or narration over 75% of this. The original masters are just begging for an online release (this is how you do it these days: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/nasa-voyager-space-sounds/id336195159)
but yeah it's the good vangelis. he seldom lets himself go longform cosmic, side 2 of l'apocalypse, beauborg, invisible connections, but when the unmoving camera's tightly focused on an opened spine for hours, you've got the license for some deep musical thinking
nice to hear something good from the late period, most of the time now he's just on this sound (still technically amazing): http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/12/04/vangelis-and-the-journey-to-ithaka-documentary-now-available/
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 5 December 2013 00:53 (ten years ago) link
Well, the linked video up above on Youtube has pretty sparse narration... but at this point the rough edits where the narration has been chopped out just sound like part of it. Case 04 has a kind of Soil Festivities/Aphex Twin thing going on, and it is fabulous, while Case 08 is along the lines of the quieter parts of the City. As you say, it's good Vangelis... it sounds very 80s Vangelis for something (supposedly) from 1998, too.
That reminds me, I need to find a copy of Invisible Connections... I bought it ages ago but the the CD was corrupted and wouldn't play.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 6 December 2013 05:20 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone heard Demis Roussos' solo LPs? I'm a little scared to dive into them but there's one that Vangelis co-wrote that sounds interesting…
Just grabbed my first cuz it was cheap, The Demis Roussos Magic and I'm diving in now. Track 1: I'm having trouble already with it, but it appears side B contains another (?) version of "Let it Happen," so I'm curious about that.
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Oops, I meant:
revive quote
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
The inside-the-gatefold image didn't prepare me for "Mourir Aupres De Mon Amour," the first track.
http://www.demisroussos.info/disc/albums/magicAdd.jpg
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:41 (ten years ago) link
Maybe I'm missing something. Like, knowledge or something.
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:42 (ten years ago) link
OK kind of digging "My Face in the Rain." Kinda like if Terry Reid had recorded with Vangelis.
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:45 (ten years ago) link
Cookin' big production of Chrisma's "U", here "I Dig You" to end side 1. Is it a Chrisma original? Dunno--can't tell from a quick look at discogs.
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:54 (ten years ago) link
Forever and Ever is glorious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3vCB3YBMUo&feature=kp
and this goes so hard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FAgtWMGj4
<3 Roussos
― J. Sam, Thursday, 13 March 2014 03:57 (ten years ago) link
Damn, the compression on the drums/bass on "Let it Happen" really gives it the feel of a loop.And some real forward-looking synth lead bits. It's not my new favorite version of this tune, but it is pretty great.
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:01 (ten years ago) link
By "Damn" I meant more like "dayum" of course
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:02 (ten years ago) link
And OK maybe this is becoming my new favorite version
Greek Reggae now. It is islands I guess
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
Greek Traditional Jamaican Mento rather haha
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
First one is pretty good tbh!
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
I was obv drunk last night. "I Dig You" clearly the forerunner to Chrisma's "U", not the other way around
― andrew m., Thursday, 13 March 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link