Sky Blue . Passport, Ataraxia (1977). Willy Ketzer, keys. Mini solo @ 1:47: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM7N3OTh-B8 Sounds like he added a little white noise into the patch. IMO, about as expressive as it gets. Hendrik Schaper played the Minimoog solo on "Sky Blue" but the other synth work was d...

I fully agree with you Shutoku, but don't forget that the Oberheim 4-voice is responsible for some of the synth solos on "Light of Smiles".
For example, the solos on "Water Sign" is the Obie.

Here's a photo of Geoff Downes posing in front of his 1983/84 keyboard rig: http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/6353/asiageoffdownes.jpg Note the addition of the Memorymoog on the left (ontop of the CS-80), PPG Wave 2.2 (underneath the Fairlight keyboards), Prophet remote keyboard and a Novatron (ins...

I believe the b&w picture above was taken during Asia's first tour back in 1982. For that tour Geoff Downes' keyboard rig included a Yamaha CS80, Prophet 5, Hammond J-122 organ, Yamaha CP-70B electric grand, two Moog Minimoogs, Fairlight master and slave keyboards, Polymoog, Mellotron, Prophet 10, S...

I'm a big fan of Dan Wyman and I love his synth work on John Carpenter's '70s movies "Assault on Precinct 13", "Halloween" and "The Fog". I also very much like his own electronic/orchestral scores to "Without Warning" (1980) and "h**l Night" (1981), none of which has seen the light of day on LP or C...

Does anyone know if the soundtrack to the 1982 film Android actually exists ? Don Preston did the main theme. I don't know if it's true but I've read somewhere that Don Preston's score for "Android" was released on an album called "Android - The Soundtrack collection". I have never seen a copy of t...

Marcello Giombini (R.I.P.) is one of my favorite Italian film composers. As a young man he was a church organist and later developed a great passion for electronic music. In the early '70s he aquired a couple of ARP 2600's and an 'Eminent organ' (pretty sure it was a 310U!) and would use them to gre...

tim gueguen wrote:

redchapterjubilee wrote:
Oscar Peterson owned several synths over the years, including a Rhodes Chroma and a Synclavier system.

Oscar also had an Oberheim 8-voice dual manual if I recall correctly.

The first film score you're describing sounds like "Endangered Species" (1982). I mentioned it on page 32 pf this thread. "Endangered Species" (1982) - another long-forgotten movie with a decent synthesizer score by Gary "the Dreamweaver" Wright. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV5HXDov9NM Here you c...

FWIW, in the live footage from the Signals tour it looks like Geddy plays the voicy chords on the OB-Xa.

Carlo Maria Cordio's score to Rosso Sangue is pretty cool indeed. The music was released on a promo record under the title "Absurd" back in the mid '80s but I have the feeling its hard to come by these days. The tracks posted on youtube are from a bootleg I think. I also like his score for Lucio Ful...

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Yeah, that movie is really bad but the same goes for many other movies mentioned in this thread. The score is pretty cool though.

I very much like Jonathan Newton's synthesizer score to "Unhinged" (1982) and would love to have it on CD: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJdB7L8lKdY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1GuoZOO5XE Synthesizer programming by Paul Nelson & Jim Fischer. Equipment used: Prophet 5, Minimoog, ARP 2600, Oberhe...

Some more synth-driven scores from Italy... Cannibal Ferox (1981) - Music by 'Budy-Maglione' (Roberto Donati and Fiamma Maglione). Arranged and directed by Carlo Maria Cordio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U5e7TMI0us Note that most of the music in this film was originally composed for "Eaten Alive...

I wish he still used it. The Little Phatty sounds great too, but it's not a Minimoog or Oberheim. I'd also like to see him recreate the 2112 synth intro live, even just once, instead of sampling it. Me, too!! Except I heard that was done with an ARP Odyssey, and is several layers of different sound...