Yes , the movie is great although you must face an annoying voiceover who would better have been cut off the actual dvd release: the movie talks about the true story of a number of sledge huskies left in the south pole by a team of Japanese scientists ,and their struggle for life : in the movie version there's some more cs-80 music, not the blasting brasses only, you can hear it with tones made through the ringmodulator and ribbon combined action ,to make some "coooold" noises...by the way Anarctica is also the first V score featuring a DX7 too (over a earlier GS-1!) ,and I assure you there's less cs-80 than on the 77-80 records !! Another curiosity : in the movie score you can find the track that Ridley Scott used in 1992 for the unicorn sequence in Blade Runner DC : it actually comes from Antarctica!!!
Regards
Max
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Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: RE: [yamahacs80] I forgot to say....Re: Help put together CS-80 discography!
I'm a big fan of almost everything Vangelis has recorded, but the
Antarctica soundtrack is among his best ("tied" with Blade Runner, IMO).
I've never seen the movie, but the soundtrack definitely inspires
visions of a cold, icy and desolate land. It certainly sounds chock
full of CS-80, though it's much more dense than some of the earlier
recordings with many layers of synths going on.
-Synth80s
:: Why these V albums and not the following ones?
:: Even if I am a fan of all V music I suggest those albums because the
:: cs-80 sound is much cleaner than on the next records : sometimes V
:: uses a Masterroom sprin reverb and a tape delay in a subtle
:: way ,while in the albums starting from "see you later" the sound
:: comes loaded of digital reverberation (courtesy of L 224):
:: moreover V
:: plays more cs on these albums than on the following ( from SYL to
:: Rhapsodies the strings will come only from VP330 !!!)
:: Max