My favorite electronic soundtrack would have to be Tangerine Dream's work on "Legend". I looooove this soundtrack. The score to Terminator and Terminator2 also rank high on my list.
First experiences? Lesse... Back in the day, while I was living in Saginaw, Mi, I really got into "Telephone Call" and "Numbers" by Kraftwerk (they got lots of radio play back then). I didn't really get into house and techno until 88 though. During Drivers Ed at Mumford (in Detroit), listening to the radio was off limits. A girl I was driving with turned on the radio to 96.3 (she wanted to hear their House and Techno show)and I heard "Big Fun" and "Good Life" back to back. That got me into the house/techno sound. George Jones IV Technical Systems Administrator BBDO Detroit (248) 293-4780 -----Original Message----- From: Hugo Sweet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:19 AM To: 313 (E-mail) Subject: [313] Soundtracks and Early Memories Hey fellow 313er's I have a couple of discussion threads that I hope may have a bit of traction. After watching "The Insider" again, and being reminded of Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard's great synth-laden soundtrack, I was wondering what are listmembers' picks for their favourite electronic soundtracks? On another slant, I think most of you will agree that as soon as you discover a real appreciation for techno, you want to explore its roots, through electro, dub, italo-disco, kraut-rock, punk, or whatever. I'm about to turn thirty, and being a naturally introspective chap, a memory prompted me to consider my own roots for appreciating techno [self indulgence alert]. I'm interested in member's first experiences of hearing electronic music, back when you really had no opinion about music. I'll explain by example. When I was at primary school (years 1 to 8), we would have an assembly each Wednesday. Before each assembly, one of the teachers would put an album on the PA to keep us quiet while the staff met out the back of the hall. Bizarrely enough, considering the number of albums I must have listened to in this way, I can only remember one album, and I remember that distinctly; Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene". I found this memory significant because even though I have never had any inclination to own that album, and I don't even recall ever hearing it in its entirety, the quality and nostalga of the memories of that, "The War of the Worlds", and Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor for organ at annual carol services, are distinct from any other music (those recitations of Bach on a cathedral organ were probably my first experiences of serious bass). This was music that I listened to passively, when I never would have thought "I've got to get a copy of that and find out everything else they've done!", and without any reference to any other music. Living in Anglophile New Zealand, meant from the late seventies until the Christmas of 1996, after diversions through Orbital, Global Communication and Aphex Twin (thanks to "Q" and "Select" magazines), I didn't find what I was looking for until my brother asked for Stacey Pullen's DJ Kicks as a present. Did any of you have similar experiences? As a side note did anybody else ever hear the version of the soundtrack of "Star Wars" entitled "Star Wars and other galactic funk". I remember hat it was great for flailing around to when I was six, but of little musical value. On television here, if the schedule was ahead of time, and at a time that we only had half an hour of music videos a week, the station would play a single video. The electronic music one I remember had time lapse photography of views of an American city. Any ideas? Nostalgically yours Hugo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
