Jean-Michelle, Vangelis; John Carpenter

[Matthew Allen]

	All this talk of great synth artists got me to dig out some of my
old john carpenter soundtrack stuff. If your a fan of synth film music this
is the guy to go to. His Film sound work (starting in 1974 with dark star)
is still truly amazing (listening to it right now). There of course is some
cheese (especially in the mid 80's. (lotsa DX-7 sounds). But his influence
can be heard up to today (darren verhagens' witch hunter/witch hammer hunder
the moniker shinjuku theif has all sorts of hommages to him) .. great stuff
if you can find it

m.

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> From: 	J.D.McEachin[SMTP:jdm at synthcom.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, March 19, 1999 12:39 PM
> To: 	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
> Subject: 	Re: Jean-Michelle, Vangelis
> 
> At 02:59 PM 3/18/99 -0600, Bill Layer wrote:
> >What are your favorite JMJ and Vangelis records? Why?
> 
> The only one I really care for (but I love it dearly) is Vangelis'
> Bladerunner Soundtrack (Romanian Bootleg Version).  Why?  I suspect a lot
> of it has to do with how strongly the music is connected with the images
> from the film, and that it's one of the few synth-based soundtracks.  This
> is one of the greatest soundtracks of all time, for me only 2001's is in
> the same league.  I think it's criminal that more film (especially sci-fi)
> soundtracks aren't synth-based, rather than this pseudo-classical crap
> that
> Hans Zimmer & Jerry Goldsmith excrete in such large quantities.  I hope
> that The Fifth Element and Pi signal a return to synthesized sci-fi
> soundtracks (though I doubt there'll ever be another as freaky as
> Forbidden
> Planet's).
> 
> JDM
>