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Where can we find your CD, Kenneth?
I tried to find it, but Google isn't coming up with anything.

Scott Deyo
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On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Kenneth Elhardt wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
>