Honorable mentions: Doctor Who theme, Popcorn song, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, The entire 1980s, The Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twin, Orbital
And Forbidden Planet 1956 the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron and their now famous "electronic tonalities"! And shouldn't Space "Magic Fly" get a look in?
@@tdmduc @Antara755 That is why i said the entire 80s. Even Michael Jackson made synth heavy music in the 80s (aka Bad album). The decade is the decade of synth.
Can't believe you missed out Gary Numan!!! The Pleasure Principle was the first album I bought and was blown away by how different it was to everything else around in the 70's.
Absolutely. For me it was Are Friends Electric going to No.1 for 4 weeks in the UK and announcing the arrival of synthesisers as mainstream rock/pop and not esoteric experimenatal album music...
John Carpenter. I always thought it was interesting how he made some great horror movies, and did all his own soundtracks on synths. Not the most complex arrangements, but they complimented the feel of his movies well.
Do you know the 1983 Dutch low-budget horror movie "De Lift" by Dick Maas? He didn't even have budget for a sound track, so he made some very basic but scary sounds on a Juno-6 and Jupiter-8. Very simple, but effective!
Forbidden Planet (1956) had the first all-electronic soundtrack. Bebe and Louis Barron used "homemade" electronic circuits, and lots of ring modulation and other effects to create a chilling and revolutionary soundtrack.
Can't believe Jarre was only given a passing mention. Concerts in China was a landmark recording for so many reasons. Deserved to be on the list far greater than a "3 note riff"
Most people dont have the capacity to appreciate Jarre's music since it is based on melodies which are much better than the rest, and most human brains dont notice the difference. Jarre's music can be enjoyed the same by a grandmother who doesnt know anything about music as by a 15 years old boy who suddently discovers it. The only thing both have in common is their superior sense of melody.
Blade Runner changed my life forever, the sonic scenery of that film catapulted me into the synth word and it now takes a huge part of my everyday life!
Vangelis and Tangerine Dream works great in movies. Check out the Michael Mann movies - he often used Tangerine Dream. Also he used a lot of electronic artists for his other movies: Heat, Collateral, Miami Vice, etc. Also the movie Manhunter (first movie in the Hannibal series) features some amazing tracks. The Big Hush, just to mention one.
One of a kind. Immensely beautiful. Pure sonic and visual bliss. The film is a perfect blend of ingenious inspirations at work: Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, Vangelis, Moebius...
I think Depeche Mode are missing in the list. DM started to use samples and produce music on emulators like no one before them. For me they are the pioneers of synth music. There should be also mention of Faithless and their custom plucky staccato synth, that is so unique like nothing before and after. what about Kraftwerk?
Vince Clarke, who wrote the early Depeche Mode music, says he was inspired by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), who in turn were inspired by Kraftwerk.
Good video overall, but I was confused how you decided that synths were introduced to rock by Pink Floyd in 1973 then showed a clip of ELP from 1970 with Emerson live in concert on his huge modular Moog?
Only picking 7 was always going to be a tough job. A shame Oxygene only received a passing mention though, a seminal work that provided the inspiration for what would come later
Blade Runner and its soundtrack changed my life 40 years ago. Until now, I consider the music from this film to be an absolute masterpiece, and the film itself with its continuation as a key in world cinematography.
Some honorable mentions (for sheer global reach): The Beatles use of the Moog synth on Abbey Road in 1969 - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Here Comes The Sun", and "Because" Keith Emerson's solo at the end of "Lucky Man" Edgar Winter's use of the ARP 2600 on "Frankenstein" Josef Zawinul's use of the Oberheim 4 Voice on "Birdland" Thomas Dolby's "Golden Age of Wireless"
The "Lucky Man" '70 solo, to my mind, marked the influential entree of the synthesizer to (prog) rock, rather than Pink Floyd in '73 [as asserted by the annoying self-styled Doctor Mix]. It was also a bit of a creative high water mark: the synth never quite delivered on that initial promise. Sometimes I wonder if somehow it's just TOO flexible and capable. Human creativity seems (in its finest expressions) to thrive on battling against constricting limits. It's a very perverse and counter-intuitive tendency. In Emerson's case with LM, perhaps the limit was his lack of familiarity; it was the absolute first time he'd had the chance to fool around on one.
I first discovered synthesizers with OMD; not to play as I cannot afford them. Later I was to discover Art of Noise, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream/Edgar Froese et al, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, and Walter/Wendy Carlos in that general chronological order. When I first heard Oxygène, Équinoxe, and Magnetic Fields/Le Chants Magnétiques, I was totally blown away! 😮 I bought those, Zoolook, and Rendezvous right way in 1986 on the same day. I have nearly all the albums except for EON and Music For Supermarkets, though one lucky one has that latter one! Seen him play live. I read about Tangerine Dream in a book called The Keyboard and Synthesizer Handbook by David Crombie. I bought the album that it had stated, Phaedra, in 1987 and I was metaphorically torn to pieces! What the...!!!!!! 😮😲🥴🙃 I now have nearly 70 albums. My favourite era is the Froese/Franke/Baumann, which was at a time when few others were doing that. Seen them play live. Vangelis, Vangelis, Vangelis, is all you need to utter! 😃🥰 Wow, if ever you want a musical experience like no other, any album will do! I fail to pick any album or albums that stand out since they all stand out! I have most of his albums but more to collect for sure. Klaus Schulze, plenty and more to collect. I have all of Kraftwerk’s studio albums and some live ones.
Love your videos. Honorable mention: Synth intro to “Funeral For a Friend” played by David Hentschel for Elton John. Taking a duo phonic 2600 and make lush chords and textures using multitrack recording made an amazing piece of music.
Claudio, how can you not include Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" produced by synth legend Giorgio Moroder with his mighty Moog Modular? Giorgio also scored Oliver Stone's "Midnight Express" another killer synth sound track.
Wendy Carlos showed that synthesizers were REAL musical instruments and opened path for all who followed after her. Keith Emerson, Vangelis, Hans Zimmer, and all the rest owe everything to Ms. Carlos.
To Jump all the way to Daft Punk seems a huge omission when you have all the sampling Trevor Horn and similar stuff of the mid 80s which dominated everything for such a long time.
I have the Switched On Bach LP in Stereo and Quadraphonic. I no longer have a Quadraphonic decoder to play it back with 4 channel Wendy Carlos was truly a pioneer of early electronic music.
My 7 Greatest Moments In Synthesizer History 1) Doctor Who theme 1963 2) Popcorn 3) Kraftwerk 4) Giorgio Moroder (1977 - I Feel Love, 1978 - Chase) 5) All the 80s New Wave/New Romantic 6) The KLF 7) Dungeon Synth (mostly Burzum and Summoning)
For all the worship of the CS-80 these days, I actually think the basic sound is very thin. I played a CS-60 once, which only has one 8 voice layer (not 2 as in the CS-80) and a non velocity keyboard with no aftertouch (CS-80 had poly aftertouch). The CS-60 was very underwelming sounding in my opinion, despite kind of being half a CS-80. I think the main strength of the CS-80 was the poly aftertouch and the two layers that had a pleasing phasing due to its tuning instability. The CS-80 was valued by Vangelis because of these performance controls led to, at that time unmatched expressiveness.
There's a ton of stuff listed below. The transition from analog to digital. So many artists & groups. I remember a tiny outfit called The Electric Light Orchestra of which in my day I was adducted to. Much of which might have been a real orchestra & strings but also electronic.
I agree with that list, have lived that evolution as you mention it, Switched on Bach, Pink Floyd with the EMS, I'm just missing Kraftwerk which were fundamental and you did some great youtube videos on Man Machine, Autobahn, should have been on that list, Thanks for sharing all the good stuff you are doing :-)
Mmmmm two glaring things left out here ... the Moog solo at the end of ELP's 'Lucky Man' in 1970 and just a brief mention of the maestro Keith Emerson (check out Aquatarkus from ELP's 'welcome back' album some of the best live synth playing ever and a gentleman named David Vorhaus who along with Deliah Derbyshire were pioneers of electronic music ... check out The White Noise An Electric Storm In Hell (1969) ... it will frighten the bejeesus out of you!
My List: Hot Butter - Popcorn Space - Magic Fly Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene VI Donna Summer - I feel love Georgio Moroder - From here to Eternaty Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Radioactivity Depeche Mode - Master & Servant Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows Pink Floyd - Echoes, One of these days
I've observed that the 80s/new wave has come back strong in the mainstream charts (The Weeknd comes to mind as a prominent example). I think that the current decade's sound will be anchored in retro FM synthesis, DX crew represent! 😎
If there are synth gods, Wendy is among a quite short list. Great moments Claudio. But, for me, Numbers, Tour de France, or Autobahn, could have been in the list... You know the impact that Kraftwerk's Numbers had on Detroit techno artists? Look up the New Dance Show on TH-cam. All of Detroit's inner city youth knew that song in the 80's and 90's, including yours truly. It was a huge dance hit. the New Dance Show featured it weekly. Especially big fan of it was the regular DJ, Jesse The Body. He included it in every mix, and often brought it in, and out of a single mix, several times in an hour. Did I ever tell you, Kraftwerk first visited Detroit in 1975? True story. They played the theater in my image, the Eastown Theatre (Called Showcase Theater, at the time. For several years beforehand it was a legendary spot for Rock. Pink Floyd, Marc Bolan, Elton, Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, and loads more.
Vangelis is the only one of the 70th geniuses we can understand was possible soundwice but what Jarre and Kraftwerk and even Kitaro did was beyond any expectations.
I recently did a video on recreating that Daft Punk sound, using the Hydrasynth (which has an MS-20 filter in it): th-cam.com/video/sbwgU536av8/w-d-xo.html
Well technically I'm off piste but Jarre ethnicolor part 1 is so seminal even though a large part is Fairlite there is no mistaking this as so futuristic for its time and anyone that has not heard it before I recommend.
The actual Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner wasn't released until 1994. Stange, but true. Earlier relleases of the soundtrack was done with an orchestra. Pure synth version as composed by Vangelis took almost 12 years until it got released on CD.
For me it was... Dr Who theme (60’s version) Switched On Bach album Popcorn single Kraftwerk Autobahn on Tomorrow's World Oxygène album Magic Fly single by Space Spiral album by Vangelis Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army on TOTP 19 by Paul Hardcastle You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess album by Yello Then too many to mention.
The fact that NONE of these include Jean-Nichel Jarre is SHOCKING! Highest price paid for an album at auction (Music For Supermarkets), largest audience at a concert Place De La Concorde), largest radio audience for a concert (Concerts In China).
Video Recap: 00:01 - intro 00:18 - uvi sponsor 00:250:34 - badass preset demos 01:14 - Number 7: The day the earth stood still - 1951 01:54 - The Theramine demo! 02:40 - Number 6: Wendy Carlos - Switch On Bach - 1968 04:00 - Number 5: Pink Floyd - On The Run - 1973 04:48 - you forgot, didn't you? 05:0005:34 - Number 4: Vangelis - Blade Runner OST - 1982 06:27 - Number 3: Daft Punk - Da Funk - 1995 06:5308:36 - recreating the sound 08:54 - Buy the gold guide! 09:10 - Number 2: Usher - Yeah - 2004 09:35 - how to recreate the sound guide 09:48 - Number 1: Skrillex - Rock'n'Roll - 2011 10:16 - recreating dubstep sound 10:40 - outro
When the Earth Stood Still was an impressie score, but ithe Therimin was a minor element. I'd nominate Forbidden Planet which had a totally electronic and very innovative and impressive score instead. Totally agree on Switched On Bach, though.
Sorry ma non hai citato un momento topico che ha fatto conoscere il moog a tutto il mondo: "Lucky Man" degli ELP...in un'intervista all'allora tastierista della PFM lui spiega bene l'effetto deflagrante in tutto il mondo musicale di quel suono che all'inizio non si capiva bene da cosa arrivasse, e successivamente la richiesta al loro produttore di un Minimoog con il quale suonarono capolavori come "Impressioni di Settembre" "Festa" e altri😊
Seems you missed some extra great moments like "Forbidden Planet" (1956) from Louis and Bebe Barron as well as Oskar Sala on his Mixtur-Trautonium for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" In my opinion more remarkable than some of your 7 greatest moments. Best seems you make 9 instead of 7 🙂
Usually I agree with you Claudio but...Oh my gosh!!! Where is KEITH EMERSON!!! I feel like this was a review from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (who hate all prog). not only Lucky Man, but how about the synth solo on Tarkus on WBMFTTSTNE? What he did live with that modular beast was untouchable and put Moog on the map more so than S.O.B.
WOW YOUR VIDS ARE AMAZING AND INSPIRING CLAUDIO! 🍾🍾🍾 Just lower the envelope of 1/10000000 on the Daft Punk preset and we’ll be in heaven! 😉😉😉 BTW is it a MK1 or MK2 MS-20? 🙏🙏🔝
how could you forget the first sampler in synthesizer history, the CMI Fairlight (actually its predecessor, younger prototype model) and J. J. Jeczalik, Art of Noise, and all other bands from ZTT, and Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush? Yeah, instead you put in... who, Skrillex?! What a glorious moment in synthesizer history that was, really. And what about FM synthesis, on Yamaha DX line of synths? And finally, not even one word on drum machines, not even one was mentioned, regardless they are also synthesizers, are they not? You started well with first 4-5 numbers but after Vangelis - it all went the down hill to the mid-90s with Daft Punk. That's a huge chunk of synth history missing. Right about now, funk soul brother, you failed us all!
🙏💚🧡🙋Wendy Carlos, is in my heart, not only because her studies in Music Theory, and that she applied to the better tool in electronic music at her time. She had also a biological intersexualization condition that is also mine, having nothing to see with a naked alphabet cult, amalgaming rare cases with psychatric hilness , as we know see, to mask pedocriminality. Sad times. Wendy is as super gifted by her particular qualities, and like Jean-Michel Jarre, experienced a new musical paradygme. This 2020 decade?.... We are in war, a war against Humanity. There's certainly low cost amalog music that can sign a return out of Hollywood system, out of television. For some that is cancel culture, a deceptive one, for others, it is going to the heavens in the Highest Wisdom, and for some, like it is from begining of Time, rhythmics for the body. We have all the tools, but certainly multispacial modular sound will be new complex systems, with new continuous midi norm systems .
How you just skated over Jean Michel Jarre. Woah. What about Karaftwerk, Vince Clarke himself has done more for synths than the ones you mentioned. Of course, in the pop world, Depeche Mode should have dominated the 80s. Have you even heard of Alan Wilder? Neeeeeext!
NO SÉ QUE HACE DAFT PANK AHÍ NO TIENE NADA QUE HACER ... Creo que privilegia claramente a los Gringos ... Y deja fuera a grandes creadores mejores qué Daft Punk
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Honorable mentions: Doctor Who theme, Popcorn song, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, The entire 1980s, The Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twin, Orbital
Yep - for me, Oxygene is #1
Yes, Jump by Van Halen
And Forbidden Planet 1956 the first of any genre to use an entirely electronic musical score courtesy of Bebe and Louis Barron and their now famous "electronic tonalities"!
And shouldn't Space "Magic Fly" get a look in?
Johan Timman, Trip into the Body(Dutch composer)1981
Ad Visser and Daniel Sahuleka, Sobriëtas, 1982.
@@tdmduc @Antara755 That is why i said the entire 80s. Even Michael Jackson made synth heavy music in the 80s (aka Bad album). The decade is the decade of synth.
Can't believe you missed out Gary Numan!!! The Pleasure Principle was the first album I bought and was blown away by how different it was to everything else around in the 70's.
i agree its a disappointing omission. i wonder if he did a top 10 list if numan or kraftwerk would have been in there
Absolutely. For me it was Are Friends Electric going to No.1 for 4 weeks in the UK and announcing the arrival of synthesisers as mainstream rock/pop and not esoteric experimenatal album music...
Although Kraftwerk opened my eyes (ears?) to the synth, Gary Numan caused me to actually go out, buy one, and learn to play.
Yep! Me too. I bought a MkIII ARP Odyssey...@@randseedbin9440
Yep, can't do any Synth History without mentioning Kraftwerk and Gary Numan. You should do a video on these Mr Doctor Mix.
John Carpenter. I always thought it was interesting how he made some great horror movies, and did all his own soundtracks on synths. Not the most complex arrangements, but they complimented the feel of his movies well.
Do you know the 1983 Dutch low-budget horror movie "De Lift" by Dick Maas? He didn't even have budget for a sound track, so he made some very basic but scary sounds on a Juno-6 and Jupiter-8. Very simple, but effective!
LOVED the score for Starman
Switched on Bach was my first exposure to synthesizers and I loved it.
The same to me. I discovered the power of Bach's music and the synthesizer.
Same here.
Forbidden Planet (1956) had the first all-electronic soundtrack. Bebe and Louis Barron used "homemade" electronic circuits, and lots of ring modulation and other effects to create a chilling and revolutionary soundtrack.
It was the RCA mark 2 ( Really the first computer synth).
I think the rise of the TB-303 as an Acid machine (around 1986) deserves a spot. Amazing video though! 💜
Can't believe Jarre was only given a passing mention. Concerts in China was a landmark recording for so many reasons. Deserved to be on the list far greater than a "3 note riff"
Most people dont have the capacity to appreciate Jarre's music since it is based on melodies which are much better than the rest, and most human brains dont notice the difference.
Jarre's music can be enjoyed the same by a grandmother who doesnt know anything about music as by a 15 years old boy who suddently discovers it. The only thing both have in common is their superior sense of melody.
Blade Runner changed my life forever, the sonic scenery of that film catapulted me into the synth word and it now takes a huge part of my everyday life!
And forever, shall it remain on my phones playlist. And tubular bells, but thats another story... 😉
Vangelis and Tangerine Dream works great in movies. Check out the Michael Mann movies - he often used Tangerine Dream. Also he used a lot of electronic artists for his other movies: Heat, Collateral, Miami Vice, etc. Also the movie Manhunter (first movie in the Hannibal series) features some amazing tracks. The Big Hush, just to mention one.
I've seen things you "People" wouldn't believe........
One of a kind. Immensely beautiful. Pure sonic and visual bliss. The film is a perfect blend of ingenious inspirations at work: Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, Vangelis, Moebius...
Sorcerer? @@jmp01a24
I thought I'm only one who loves On The Run - it's a genuine techno track, made 25 years before its time!
I think Depeche Mode are missing in the list. DM started to use samples and produce music on emulators like no one before them. For me they are the pioneers of synth music. There should be also mention of Faithless and their custom plucky staccato synth, that is so unique like nothing before and after. what about Kraftwerk?
Vince Clarke, who wrote the early Depeche Mode music, says he was inspired by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), who in turn were inspired by Kraftwerk.
Good video overall, but I was confused how you decided that synths were introduced to rock by Pink Floyd in 1973 then showed a clip of ELP from 1970 with Emerson live in concert on his huge modular Moog?
Only picking 7 was always going to be a tough job. A shame Oxygene only received a passing mention though, a seminal work that provided the inspiration for what would come later
It's always mesmerising to see you replicating famous sounds in few seconds while you explain how to do it. I learn a lot from you.
Blade Runner and its soundtrack changed my life 40 years ago. Until now, I consider the music from this film to be an absolute masterpiece, and the film itself with its continuation as a key in world cinematography.
Some honorable mentions (for sheer global reach):
The Beatles use of the Moog synth on Abbey Road in 1969 - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Here Comes The Sun", and "Because"
Keith Emerson's solo at the end of "Lucky Man"
Edgar Winter's use of the ARP 2600 on "Frankenstein"
Josef Zawinul's use of the Oberheim 4 Voice on "Birdland"
Thomas Dolby's "Golden Age of Wireless"
The "Lucky Man" '70 solo, to my mind, marked the influential entree of the synthesizer to (prog) rock, rather than Pink Floyd in '73 [as asserted by the annoying self-styled Doctor Mix]. It was also a bit of a creative high water mark: the synth never quite delivered on that initial promise. Sometimes I wonder if somehow it's just TOO flexible and capable. Human creativity seems (in its finest expressions) to thrive on battling against constricting limits. It's a very perverse and counter-intuitive tendency.
In Emerson's case with LM, perhaps the limit was his lack of familiarity; it was the absolute first time he'd had the chance to fool around on one.
I first discovered synthesizers with OMD; not to play as I cannot afford them. Later I was to discover Art of Noise, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream/Edgar Froese et al, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, and Walter/Wendy Carlos in that general chronological order.
When I first heard Oxygène, Équinoxe, and Magnetic Fields/Le Chants Magnétiques, I was totally blown away! 😮 I bought those, Zoolook, and Rendezvous right way in 1986 on the same day. I have nearly all the albums except for EON and Music For Supermarkets, though one lucky one has that latter one! Seen him play live.
I read about Tangerine Dream in a book called The Keyboard and Synthesizer Handbook by David Crombie. I bought the album that it had stated, Phaedra, in 1987 and I was metaphorically torn to pieces! What the...!!!!!! 😮😲🥴🙃 I now have nearly 70 albums. My favourite era is the Froese/Franke/Baumann, which was at a time when few others were doing that. Seen them play live.
Vangelis, Vangelis, Vangelis, is all you need to utter! 😃🥰 Wow, if ever you want a musical experience like no other, any album will do! I fail to pick any album or albums that stand out since they all stand out! I have most of his albums but more to collect for sure.
Klaus Schulze, plenty and more to collect. I have all of Kraftwerk’s studio albums and some live ones.
Love your videos. Honorable mention: Synth intro to “Funeral For a Friend” played by David Hentschel for Elton John. Taking a duo phonic 2600 and make lush chords and textures using multitrack recording made an amazing piece of music.
u forgot Gershon Kingsley who, in 1969 created the first electropop record called "Popcorn!" on his big moog synthesizer
Yep, Popcorn deserved a mention!
Claudio, how can you not include Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" produced by synth legend Giorgio Moroder with his mighty Moog Modular? Giorgio also scored Oliver Stone's "Midnight Express" another killer synth sound track.
From here to eternity
Wendy Carlos showed that synthesizers were REAL musical instruments and opened path for all who followed after her. Keith Emerson, Vangelis, Hans Zimmer, and all the rest owe everything to Ms. Carlos.
Delia Derbyshire was doing it 5 years earlier
Don’t forget Chicory Tip “son of my father” and popcorn, both were pretty significant in making the synth a useful instrument
*_Thanx Claudio, nice synthesizer history in a little pill._*
It was in fact "Switched on Bach" (1 & 2) that made me interested in synthesizer music back in the early 70s
Music To Moog By should definitely be here!!
Me and my kid from Brazil, we love it!!! NEEEEXXXT
To Jump all the way to Daft Punk seems a huge omission when you have all the sampling Trevor Horn and similar stuff of the mid 80s which dominated everything for such a long time.
Patrick Cowley - RIP gone to early was synth genius
That snare at the last seconds of the video sounds amazing
I have the Switched On Bach LP in Stereo and Quadraphonic. I no longer have a Quadraphonic decoder to play it back with 4 channel Wendy Carlos was truly a pioneer of early electronic music.
To overlook Tangerine Dream is unforgivable
I think Donna Summer - I feel love deserves a spot on a list like this.
Where are you Dr. Mix ? We've been waiting for days
My 7 Greatest Moments In Synthesizer History
1) Doctor Who theme 1963
2) Popcorn
3) Kraftwerk
4) Giorgio Moroder (1977 - I Feel Love, 1978 - Chase)
5) All the 80s New Wave/New Romantic
6) The KLF
7) Dungeon Synth (mostly Burzum and Summoning)
For all the worship of the CS-80 these days, I actually think the basic sound is very thin. I played a CS-60 once, which only has one 8 voice layer (not 2 as in the CS-80) and a non velocity keyboard with no aftertouch (CS-80 had poly aftertouch). The CS-60 was very underwelming sounding in my opinion, despite kind of being half a CS-80.
I think the main strength of the CS-80 was the poly aftertouch and the two layers that had a pleasing phasing due to its tuning instability. The CS-80 was valued by Vangelis because of these performance controls led to, at that time unmatched expressiveness.
love your posts!
Fabulous selection of choice thank you for selecting and sharing x❤️🙏🌹
Cheers claudio. Very exciting and fun episode. 💥Nexxxxxt💥
You have missed a couple of other leaders, Rick Wakeman, and Tomita. I was lucky enough to see Keith Emerson live a couple of times.
There's a ton of stuff listed below. The transition from analog to digital. So many artists & groups. I remember a tiny outfit called The Electric Light Orchestra of which in my day I was adducted to. Much of which might have been a real orchestra & strings but also electronic.
@8:45 You can get pretty close to this sound on the Behringer MS-1 I found out. It sounds really good.
Wendy also did the Doctor Who theme.
It must have been hard choosing which one to use
Fun video! Nice job
I agree with that list, have lived that evolution as you mention it, Switched on Bach, Pink Floyd with the EMS, I'm just missing Kraftwerk which were fundamental and you did some great youtube videos on Man Machine, Autobahn, should have been on that list, Thanks for sharing all the good stuff you are doing :-)
Claudio should be a host for other shows, he's so alive and entertaining (and crazy)
Mmmmm two glaring things left out here ... the Moog solo at the end of ELP's 'Lucky Man' in 1970 and just a brief mention of the maestro Keith Emerson (check out Aquatarkus from ELP's 'welcome back' album some of the best live synth playing ever and a gentleman named David Vorhaus who along with Deliah Derbyshire were pioneers of electronic music ... check out The White Noise An Electric Storm In Hell (1969) ... it will frighten the bejeesus out of you!
Hi Claudio! About Yamaha CS-80, Benny Andersson (Abba) used one.
My List:
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Space - Magic Fly
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene VI
Donna Summer - I feel love
Georgio Moroder - From here to Eternaty
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Radioactivity
Depeche Mode - Master & Servant
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows
Pink Floyd - Echoes, One of these days
Am not an expert but I think your list is awesome, personally I would add Guru Josh - Infinity and DM - Enjoy the silence.
Metamatic Construction Time Again
#8 The Miami Vice Theme 😎
I've observed that the 80s/new wave has come back strong in the mainstream charts (The Weeknd comes to mind as a prominent example). I think that the current decade's sound will be anchored in retro FM synthesis, DX crew represent! 😎
STROMAE-L'ENFER has a pretty fresh synth with effects in the drop you should check it 👍🏻
I would put Ron Grainer's Doctor who Theme in there as well.
Great selection, sir! Through Carlos and Vangelis there is synth (and musical) heaven :)
If there are synth gods, Wendy is among a quite short list. Great moments Claudio. But, for me, Numbers, Tour de France, or Autobahn, could have been in the list... You know the impact that Kraftwerk's Numbers had on Detroit techno artists? Look up the New Dance Show on TH-cam. All of Detroit's inner city youth knew that song in the 80's and 90's, including yours truly. It was a huge dance hit. the New Dance Show featured it weekly. Especially big fan of it was the regular DJ, Jesse The Body. He included it in every mix, and often brought it in, and out of a single mix, several times in an hour. Did I ever tell you, Kraftwerk first visited Detroit in 1975? True story. They played the theater in my image, the Eastown Theatre (Called Showcase Theater, at the time. For several years beforehand it was a legendary spot for Rock. Pink Floyd, Marc Bolan, Elton, Iggy and the Stooges, MC5, and loads more.
Vangelis is the only one of the 70th geniuses we can understand was possible soundwice but what Jarre and Kraftwerk and even Kitaro did was beyond any expectations.
I recently did a video on recreating that Daft Punk sound, using the Hydrasynth (which has an MS-20 filter in it): th-cam.com/video/sbwgU536av8/w-d-xo.html
What abaout Gershon Kingsley's Popcorn, or Tangerine Dream and alikes, or Alan Parson's Project instrumentals. That's '60s and '70s. And Jarre.
Great.... but not greatEST moments........ but always entertaining!!
Laserdance / Koto … best ever.
10:38 what song does that sound like? Its like late 90s, early 2000s, dance theme
Well technically I'm off piste but Jarre ethnicolor part 1 is so seminal even though a large part is Fairlite there is no mistaking this as so futuristic for its time and anyone that has not heard it before I recommend.
The actual Vangelis soundtrack for Bladerunner wasn't released until 1994. Stange, but true. Earlier relleases of the soundtrack was done with an orchestra. Pure synth version as composed by Vangelis took almost 12 years until it got released on CD.
MIX MIX MIX .......DOCTOR MIX!!!
Yes yes yes
I would say Donna summer I feel love, would have been a huge moment
Blade Runner, absolutely. Not sure about the rest. Some are downright weird choices!
Maestro, I'd opine "Who's Next", 1971; and Pete Townshend's use of both the ARP and a Lowery organ feed into an EMS VCS3 belongs in the Canon, no?
For me it was...
Dr Who theme (60’s version)
Switched On Bach album
Popcorn single
Kraftwerk Autobahn on Tomorrow's World
Oxygène album
Magic Fly single by Space
Spiral album by Vangelis
Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army on TOTP
19 by Paul Hardcastle
You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess album by Yello
Then too many to mention.
No mention of Tangerine Dream, Claudio 😰
0:35 Toccata in D :)
The fact that NONE of these include Jean-Nichel Jarre is SHOCKING! Highest price paid for an album at auction (Music For Supermarkets), largest audience at a concert Place De La Concorde), largest radio audience for a concert (Concerts In China).
Video Recap:
00:01 - intro
00:18 - uvi sponsor
00:25 0:34 - badass preset demos
01:14 - Number 7: The day the earth stood still - 1951
01:54 - The Theramine demo!
02:40 - Number 6: Wendy Carlos - Switch On Bach - 1968
04:00 - Number 5: Pink Floyd - On The Run - 1973
04:48 - you forgot, didn't you?
05:00 05:34 - Number 4: Vangelis - Blade Runner OST - 1982
06:27 - Number 3: Daft Punk - Da Funk - 1995
06:53 08:36 - recreating the sound
08:54 - Buy the gold guide!
09:10 - Number 2: Usher - Yeah - 2004
09:35 - how to recreate the sound guide
09:48 - Number 1: Skrillex - Rock'n'Roll - 2011
10:16 - recreating dubstep sound
10:40 - outro
When the Earth Stood Still was an impressie score, but ithe Therimin was a minor element. I'd nominate Forbidden Planet which had a totally electronic and very innovative and impressive score instead. Totally agree on Switched On Bach, though.
I have very little confidence in a channel that says dubstep has provided the 'greatest moment in synthesizer history'
Sorry ma non hai citato un momento topico che ha fatto conoscere il moog a tutto il mondo: "Lucky Man" degli ELP...in un'intervista all'allora tastierista della PFM lui spiega
bene l'effetto deflagrante in tutto il mondo musicale di quel suono che all'inizio non si capiva bene da cosa arrivasse, e successivamente la richiesta al loro produttore di un Minimoog con il quale suonarono capolavori come "Impressioni di Settembre" "Festa" e altri😊
Seems you missed some extra great moments like "Forbidden Planet" (1956) from Louis and Bebe Barron as well as Oskar Sala on his Mixtur-Trautonium for Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds"
In my opinion more remarkable than some of your 7 greatest moments. Best seems you make 9 instead of 7 🙂
Usually I agree with you Claudio but...Oh my gosh!!! Where is KEITH EMERSON!!! I feel like this was a review from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (who hate all prog). not only Lucky Man, but how about the synth solo on Tarkus on WBMFTTSTNE? What he did live with that modular beast was untouchable and put Moog on the map more so than S.O.B.
A bit behind Arturia. 😃
What about Prodigy?
WOW YOUR VIDS ARE AMAZING AND INSPIRING CLAUDIO! 🍾🍾🍾 Just lower the envelope of 1/10000000 on the Daft Punk preset and we’ll be in heaven! 😉😉😉 BTW is it a MK1 or MK2 MS-20? 🙏🙏🔝
What happened with synergy?
Wait. No "Lucky Man" solo?
how could you forget the first sampler in synthesizer history, the CMI Fairlight (actually its predecessor, younger prototype model) and J. J. Jeczalik, Art of Noise, and all other bands from ZTT, and Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush? Yeah, instead you put in... who, Skrillex?! What a glorious moment in synthesizer history that was, really. And what about FM synthesis, on Yamaha DX line of synths? And finally, not even one word on drum machines, not even one was mentioned, regardless they are also synthesizers, are they not? You started well with first 4-5 numbers but after Vangelis - it all went the down hill to the mid-90s with Daft Punk. That's a huge chunk of synth history missing. Right about now, funk soul brother, you failed us all!
I'm honestly surprised there was no mention of Jeff Wayne
I think Gary Numan and Jean-Michel Jarre should have had their own spot in this, at the very least in place of Usher and Skrillex!
Спасибо! Да, Vendy (Walter) Carlos, и Vangelis's Blade Runner более всех, из этого видео, повлияли на мировую синтезаторную музыку
Fairlight- Zoolook? Oberheim - Jump?
I think you forgot Stevie Wonder's ARP, Herbie Hancock's Moog and LIle Mays SEM or even the Triton but hey, you brought us Usher and Skrillex ...
Brain-link synth is probably the final frontier, biometrical musics.
🙏💚🧡🙋Wendy Carlos, is in my heart, not only because her studies in Music Theory, and that she applied to the better tool in electronic music at her time. She had also a biological intersexualization condition that is also mine, having nothing to see with a naked alphabet cult, amalgaming rare cases with psychatric hilness , as we know see, to mask pedocriminality. Sad times. Wendy is as super gifted by her particular qualities, and like Jean-Michel Jarre, experienced a new musical paradygme. This 2020 decade?.... We are in war, a war against Humanity. There's certainly low cost amalog music that can sign a return out of Hollywood system, out of television.
For some that is cancel culture, a deceptive one, for others, it is going to the heavens in the Highest Wisdom, and for some, like it is from begining of Time, rhythmics for the body. We have all the tools, but certainly multispacial modular sound will be new complex systems, with new continuous midi norm systems .
Keith Emerson??
Saludos
Doctor Next :)
Switched on Bach or Tomita????
Tangerine Dream: "Phaedra" (1974).
Wendy Carlos should have been #1. A true pioneer, and without her, things would have been alot different.
How you just skated over Jean Michel Jarre. Woah. What about Karaftwerk, Vince Clarke himself has done more for synths than the ones you mentioned. Of course, in the pop world, Depeche Mode should have dominated the 80s. Have you even heard of Alan Wilder? Neeeeeext!
NO SÉ QUE HACE DAFT PANK AHÍ NO TIENE NADA QUE HACER ... Creo que privilegia claramente a los Gringos ... Y deja fuera a grandes creadores mejores qué Daft Punk