MOTM

The OldCrow:
>  I might mention the work of a Japanese friend of mine I met while living
in Japan in 1988.  Fumitaka Anzai is a film and TV composer who  got into
the business working for Roland soldering circuit boards, and won the Roland
tape contest in the late 70s.  He went on to create a musical scores and has
a number of albums available. <<

I'm know his name and know about his Roland contest win, but never heard it.
There wasn't much to hear of his at the various sites.   Most I'd been able
to hear on youtube or myspace was somewhat repetitive and consisted of
either samples or average synth sounds.  Being a film and TV composer means
he probably works mostly with samples, as one of his TV themes I heard would
indicate.

Chris Walcott:
>>i know this forum is not exactly the best place to give props to the
techno/electronic scene but there are a number of people out there who do
some pretty amazing stuff.  jack dangers come to mind.<<

I guess this was meant for the forum.  However, when I talk about musical
substance and advanced, colorful, and musical use of synths, techno or its
variants is the last thing that should be brought up as that's the
antithesis of everything I had mentioned.  A fast visit to lastfm to hear
Dangers of course confirmed this.  In all the 30 second samples there, I
heard very little synth use (mostly acoustic sounds and effects), and the
one where there was some, it was simple and cheesey as expected, not to
mention the lack of musical substance in all the pieces.  Perhaps there was
a misunderstanding of what's lacking in today's electronic music.

-Elhardt

It's September 11th, and so I declare Jihad on Microsoft.  To my Muslim
brothers I give this coded message: "The eagle flies at night".  Soon the
great Satan will be gone.  Praise Alah (PBUH), death to Microsoft.