As far as I know Fabio Frizzi has used the Mellotron, Minimoog, ARP/Solina string ensemble, Rhodes ep, TR-808 and a Roland Jup-8 (which he still owns). He had/has a great passion for the mellotron and he personally played it on his scores. The ominous sounding male voice sounds in classic horror sco...

Thanks for sharing, Micke! You're welcome :) I remember Schultze sold off a huge lot of instruments on eBay back in 2002, one of his two CS80s among them. I was outbid by 10 Euros, I think, and it was cheap (something around 2,000 Euros). A friend of mine bought Schultze´s Roland MC-8 which arrived...

You're welcome, guys :) I'd guess the Fairlight was also used for the "Aahh..Aahh..Aahh's" in the second half of the track, and the gun shot effects are probably coming from the Minimoog. I'm not sure what gear Sylvester Levay used on the stuff he recorded for "Scarface" but chances are he used some...

Here's some interesting insider-info on the making of "Tony's Theme" from Scarface (exclusively for VSE): German composer/arranger/keyboardist Kristian Schultze did the synth-work on "Tony's Theme", both the album version as well as the film versions of this track. I had an email conversation with h...

Oh yeah, that's a great score. I already mentioned it on the very first page of this thread but that was back in 2007, how time flies :shock: Here's the single version of the main theme: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDOCf34YFBo Not sure if there's any Emulator 1 on there but Klaus confirmed to me ...

Poly AT needs a separate sensor underneath each key, which is of course alot more expensive. In the 80s there were just a couple of Ensoniq synths that had it, and before that, the Yamaha CS-80. There were other synths in the '80s that had Poly-AT eg the SCI Prophet T8, NED Synclavier (VPK), Yamaha...

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Has Howard Shore´s score to David Cronenberg´s "Scanners" been mentioned already? Sounds like there´s a lot of EMS and other analogue goodness on it. Stephen Howard told me some years ago that "Scanners" was mostly Prophet 5 as far as he could remember. Really? Wow! The last instrument I would have...

Oh, Michael Hoenig´s "The Blob" score from 1988 is full of Synclavier, too. Stephen Yes, Hoenig's score is full of Synclavier and lots of other synths, too. Here's an excerpt from the CD liner notes: "The score to The Blob featured the absolute latest in synthesis and sampling technology at the tim...

ppg_wavecomputer wrote:
Has Howard Shore´s score to David Cronenberg´s "Scanners" been mentioned already? Sounds like there´s a lot of EMS and other analogue goodness on it. Stephen

Howard told me some years ago that "Scanners" was mostly Prophet 5 as far as he could remember.

Yeah I noticed that too. The one seen in the film looks somewhat different though.

I just found out that Jeff Wayne (of The War of the Worlds fame) did a synth-driven score for a 1977 thriller titled "Golden Rendezvous": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6502E8SlUk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a82MFHkOsE The music is pretty good I think and very much in the vein of TWOTW. I have ...

mpa1104 wrote:

GuyaGuy wrote: For true wiggling vibrato:

Animoog.
Martenot

And the GX-1

The Yamaha 'YC-series' combo organs (YC-20, YC-25D, YC-30 and YC-45D) as well as the then top-of-the-line EX-42 organ also
had wiggling vibrato.

The Italian composer Marcello Giombini (1928-2003) - master of the ARP 2600 - did some really cool electronic albums and film scores back in the '70s and early '80s. However, with the exception of his score to "La Bestia Nello Spazio", recently released on CD by Beat records in Italy, most of Giombi...

SongJohn wrote:Hey Micke - did you ever hear the Kaipa demo "Pa Ferro" (dear father)? It's also from 1974 but can't be found on youtube. Excellent song!

Nope, I don't think I've heard that one.