Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Yamaha CS80

Tomita's album "Daphnis et Chloe" also known as "Bolero" or "The
Ravel Album" in various countries has quite a few CS80 leads. That
was basically the first album of his to use a CS80, the only one to
use it a lot and the last Tomita album to be all analog. There was a
small label CD reissue recently but the sound is said to be far
inferior to the not very expensive Japanese cardboard sleeve
remasters released multiple times since 2004.

Irene Papas' album "Odes" features Vangelis playing all the music. It
has some of his most articulate playing and tends to have the parts
more exposed than his solo albums.

Vangelis' often argued about album "Beauborg" is apparently 100% CS80
though it's lack of conventional melody and suspiciously contract
fulfilling recording of an improv isn't well received by many.

As already mentioned, "Spiral". That's his first album to play CS80
and is his most sequencer-oriented.

Vangelis' "Opera Sauvage" has a lot of CS80. "Chariots of Fire" of
course. It's funny the official music video has him pretending to be
playing synths not heard on the track. I've always wondered if it was
to just be more photogenic or not reveal his trade secrets. His
"1492" soundtrack still has a fair amount and more recent "Alexander"
has a little bit.

-nick