The great thread of electronic/synthesizer soundtracks

[Micke]

Anybody here able to identify this electronic piece from the BBC documentary In Search of the Dark ages (episode: In search of Boadicea, march 1980):



I just finished watching the whole series (8 episodes) and I can tell you it's crammed with analog synth goodness. I've managed to identify several tracks from each episode (some of which are repeated throughout the series), but there are other tracks that I don't recognize at all. Anyway, I'm absolutely certain I've heard the electronic piece in the clip above but I simply cannot find it. It might be a piece of library music but I'm not sure.

Thanks in advance

[Virgule]

Hi Micke,
It's Walter Carlos' Timesteps

[Micke]

Thank you very much virgule, well done!
I'll be darned, I had my suspicions that it could be Wendy and I listened to most of her '70s material, including the "Clockwork orange" ost, but I just couldn't find this piece.

EDIT: I just noticed that an excerpt from that section of Timesteps is used early in the episode as well, and yet another excerpt from the same track, the dark atmospheric one, is heard from 18:12 onwards. There's another omninous sounding piece just before that one but I haven't managed to identify it yet. The music at the end is from Vangeis' Spiral again; a brief segment of 'Ballad'. Other music heard in this episode (and others) are by Peter Howell, Tod Dockstader and Alan Hawkshaw.

[Anaon]

Hi!

Not sure where to ask this... I am searching for the synth used for the Shining Dies Irae opening theme? Anyone knows?

Many thanks

[Micke]

Yeah, that's a big Moog modular synthesizer.

[Anaon]

Ok thank you Micke

So a Minimoog should do the trick I suppose...

[LoboLives]

Does anyone know what synths Jim Manzie used?

From A Whisper To A Scream
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Tales From The Darkside: The Movie





Some of the sampler type sounds are similar to this piece from Nekromantik.

[Music Bird]

I have Kontakt now so I got a free Emax II sample kit with all the factory samples. Sounds like Emulator or Emax I’d guess. It has those marcato strings.

[SpineBear]

I'm a big fan of 80's cartoon soundtracks with one of my favorites being "She-Ra Princess of Power" primarily for the prominent brass featured in the soundtrack. I'm curious if anyone can help identify which synth/sampler the brass comes from? I would like to use it for my own music.

Here's some examples to refer to.

[Music Bird]

That brass reminds me of something like an analog brass sound or even FM with a volume pedal.

Stuff like Jupiter’s, Juno-106, Oberheims, Prophets, and DX7 were used.
The first one has what sounds like a Roland brass lead sound. Perhaps a Juno-106?
Second one sounds like either a Fairlight or Emulator with a volume pedal.

[SpineBear]

That brass reminds me of something like an analog brass sound or even FM with a volume pedal.

Stuff like Jupiter’s, Juno-106, Oberheims, Prophets, and DX7 were used.
The first one has what sounds like a Roland brass lead sound. Perhaps a Juno-106?
Second one sounds like either a Fairlight or Emulator with a volume pedal.

I don't think it's a Juno or Fairlight. Those sound a bit too synthesized. The Emulator sounds the closest but I have no real way of knowing with what little videos there are of them in action. Thank you for the help, though!

[Virgule]

I remember reading that Shuki Levy sometimes used a Kurzweil K250 in the mid-80s... but it could could be a real musician playing, who knows... I like those horn sounds too.

[mis psiquicios y yo]

The Tangerine Dream Pilots of Purple Twilight box is just on sale and contains the soundtrack of The Soldier. Many very good sequences, some taken from the album Poland but some seem to be taken from the time of Phaedra, you can even hear that they tune the big moog.

[Sudwave]

Hey all. So I've experimented with recreating the soundtrack from Super Mario Bros. Super Show, so far I've done the Overworld Remix from SMB2 which I will post below. I also combined the same theme with Bertie The Bus' Theme from the classic Thomas The Tank Engine series and made somewhat of a SilvaGunna like mashup haha. Anyway, the question I have is that does anybody know what Shuki Levy used in the Super Show? I have some default patches that sound close but I'm tying to recreate 'Do The Mario'. I'd really appreciate some answers.
Thanks.

Here's the Remix:


Here's the SMBSS remake:

[ToasterMan]

Cosgrove Hall's series of The Wind in the Willows for me, (and for plenty of other people), is the definitive adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame novel, everything from the writing, voice acting and animation are just perfection.

By Series 3, series composers Keith Hopwood and Malcolm Rowe began utilising heavier usage of synthesizers, even more so from Series 5, as it was rebranded to Oh, Mr. Toad!, which contains some of my favourite incidental music from the entire series.





Anyone recognize the samples used?