Conference napalm::commusic_v1

    I was never Morton Subotnik fan, but he's married to Joan LaBarbara,
    who made a few good pieces by layering zillions of similar but
    semi-independent asynchronous events with her voice and overdubbing,
    which isn't commusic, but anyway, it's similar to I of IV by Pauline
    Oliveros, which is commusic (she was fooling around in school with
    mixing ultrasonic tones to make audible tones, and the lab
    superintendant pulled out all her plugs because he thought it was
    evil), and Orient/Occident by Ed Vare`se is also a piece of thousands
    of similar but asynchronous events.
    That's why my program is vaguely similar to that, but to really make it
    go you'd need a sampler with weird little moving sounds for samples.
    I also like blinding fast things, but the overhead in my program
    brought it down from about 200 midi events/second in the feasability
    prototype to about 30 or so
    HPSCHD by Cage and Hiller is similar; there are probably hundreds of
    computer generated sounds going on at once, similar but asynchronous
    (if you've ever heard me play piano jazz, you know I hate a regular
    beat ;-0 ;-)8-)
    Tom

Yes
Rick Wakeman
Chick Corea
Tangerine Dream



Chad

my fav's:

Tangerine Dream
Chick Corea
Vangelis

-Dan

    Cyrille Verdeaux, Prophet King of France
    
    karl

    Roger Powell
    Larry Fast
    Don Slepian
    Suzanne Ciani
    Tomita
    Walter/Wendy Carlos
    
    My taste is sort of eclectic...
    
    -Ed

Karl Moeller
Steve Sherman
Tom Benson

Chad

    When I was attending RPI back in 1972, I met a fellow student named
    Larry Heyl.   Larry had actually built his own synthesizer
    (unfortunately, it was not on campus) and owned a reel-to-reel tape
    deck on which he would perform sonic manipulations.  
    
    The last I heard from him was that he had received a BS in Fine Arts
    and was off to Alaska to help build the pipeline.
    
    Basically, he showed me that you didn't have to have gobs of money or
    extensive musical training to make ugly loud noises and have fun.
    
    							Brian

    
    yup. Just banging a hammer on a loooooooong metal
    tube seems to be a substitute..... ;}    (or can he weld?)
    
    count me in for:
    
    Roger Powell
    Chick-eria
    Egberto Gismonte
    Keith Em.
    T. Lavitz
    Jan Hammer 
    
    (Karl M., your in there too, but gee, you're stuff sounds like Im
    	listenning to *ME*.........I think you know wha I mean)
    
    	No, wait a minute, maybe those are the folks I learned most
    from........
    
    rr
    

    
    	Richard Souther
    	Harlan Rogers
    	Keith Emerson
    

Tod Machover.  New album coming soon...

    Suzanne Ciani, Jane Child, Swing Out Sister...
    
    Edd

    Jean Michelle Jarre (sp)
    Tomita
    Synergy
    Mr(s) Carlos
    Mike Oldfield (multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire)
    
    Ken
    

    
    
    Ultravox
    Kraftwork
    Peter Gabriel (esp Fast and Gabriel on "Security")
    Larry Fast
    Bill Nelson   
    Wakeman
    Eddie Jobson (ex UK)
    Jan 
    

    
    
    While we are into name dropping... It turns out that "New Order" use
    the same music shop as I do.... I found this out because the owner
    keeps details of what's out on loan and what's owed, on scruffy liitle
    account cards and "Kent" is one step before "New" in his index system
    so everytime I pay-off or buy something I get to see what they are
    doing and buying. Latest aquisition is an Sy77....
    
    					Paul. "Old Order"
    
    

	I was weaned into this on Morton Subotnik, in 1970 (age 10). Warped
	my musical sensibilities forever. Other influences:

	W. Carlos
	Paul Beaver/Bernard Krause
	Emerson, until WORKS II
	Wakeman, until Six Wives
	T. Dolby
	Argent
	Mannheim Steamroller
	Kraftwerk
	Tangerine Dream
	Constance Denby
	David Parsons

    Art of Noise

Tony Banks     (chord changes/voicing)
Vangelis       (atmosphere)
Peter Gabriel  (sounds)
Jean-Luc Ponty (fluency)

...Joachim

Here is a summary of replies, e.g. three people nominated Corea. I would 
appreciate titles of suggested LPs/CDs for the asterisked (*) entries.

- Hoyt

    3    Chick Corea*
    3    Keith Emerson
    3    Rick Wakeman
    3    Tangerine Dream*
    3    Wendy Carlos

    2    Jan Hammer
    2    Kraftwerk
    2    Larry Fast
    2    Peter Gabriel 
    2    Roger Powell
    2    Suzanne Ciani*
    2    Thomas Dolby
    2    Tomita
    2    Vangelis*

    1    Argent
    1    Art of Noise
    1    Bill Nelson   
    1    Caberet Voltaire
    1    Cage and Hiller
    1    Constance Denby
    1    Cyrille Verdeaux
    1    David Parsons
    1    Depeche Mode
    1    Devo 
    1    Don Slepian
    1    Eddie Jobson 
    1    Egberto Gismonte
    1    Erasure
    1    Harlan Rogers
    1    Jane Child*
    1    Jean Michelle Jarre 
    1    Jean-Luc Ponty 
    1    Joan LaBarbara
    1    Karl Moeller
    1    Mannheim Steamroller*
    1    Mike Oldfield 
    1    Morton Subotnik
    1    Paul Beaver/Bernard Krause
    1    Richard Souther
    1    Sigue Sigue Sputnik 
    1    Steve Sherman
    1    Synergy
    1    T. Lavitz
    1    Tod Machover
    1    Tom Benson
    1    Tony Banks     
    1    Ultravox
    1    Yes

- Hoyt

    Jane Child only has one album out, "Jane Child". If you're not into
    dance music, skip it. But if you are, it's the balz....
    
    I didn't list Corea, because there is only one album of his I can say
    I truly enjoy, "Elektrik Band", the black one. However, I think that
    is one great CD...
    
    Ciani - I'd recommend "Neverland" first, then a toss up betwixt "The
    Velocity Of Love" and "History Of My Heart". Any of them are represen-
    tative, but I prefer "Neverland"... (Is there another one????)
    
    Edd

    re .19, Hoyt's compilation - excuse me, but *2* noters mentioned me -
    in 2359.6 and 2359.8, putting me in some pretty good company..
    
    karl (smiley face here)

    Yeah, and he missed Swing Out Sister also!!!!
    
    Edd

    I should have mentioned Vladimir Ussachevsky, I heard a piece  of his
    with short wave sounds that were spooky.
    Also Laurie Spiegel.  In college I used to play a piece of hers a lot
    called Appalachian something.
    Karlheinz Stockhausen's Telemusik was one of my favorite's also.  I
    still have the record.  I went to the university library to look at the
    score; it's very complicated.  I doubt anyone will recreate it.
    Tom

I like "eye of the beholder" by corea's eletrik band


Also, the "Return to Forever" group of corea's has a bunch of stuff, though
i have only heard a little.

chad

ps: i also like corea's akoustik band but that ain't really commusic.

    If anyone's interested in checking out Tangerine Dream, I ordered
    a copy of "Phaedra" thru BMG as part of my freebies. Not my cuppa
    tea. Offer me a trade for {what_have_you}...
    
    ...no idea how representative "Phaedra" is of TD.
    
    Edd

Re -*:

    Edd:      I *LOVE* dance music! Thanks for pointer.
              I thought "Swing Out Sister" was a CD title.
    Karl:     Sorry about that - I EDT faster than I read.
    All:      I'd like more suggestions for "synth heroes", esp. dance music.
              Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Mannheim Steamroller suggestions?

Thanks - Hoyt

    3    Chick Corea*
    3    Keith Emerson
    3    Rick Wakeman
    3    Tangerine Dream*
    3    Wendy Carlos

    2    Jan Hammer
    2    Karl Moeller   <----- changed
    2    Kraftwerk
    2    Larry Fast
    2    Peter Gabriel 
    2    Roger Powell
    2    Suzanne Ciani*
    2    Thomas Dolby
    2    Tomita
    2    Vangelis*

    1    Argent
    1    Art of Noise
    1    Bill Nelson   
    1    Caberet Voltaire
    1    Cage and Hiller
    1    Constance Denby
    1    Cyrille Verdeaux
    1    David Parsons
    1    Depeche Mode
    1    Devo 
    1    Don Slepian
    1    Eddie Jobson 
    1    Egberto Gismonte
    1    Erasure
    1    Harlan Rogers
    1    Jane Child*
    1    Jean Michelle Jarre 
    1    Jean-Luc Ponty 
    1    Joan LaBarbara
    1    Karlheinz Stockhausen     <----- changed
    1    Laurie Spiegel            <----- changed
    1    Mannheim Steamroller*
    1    Mike Oldfield 
    1    Morton Subotnik
    1    Paul Beaver/Bernard Krause
    1    Richard Souther
    1    Sigue Sigue Sputnik 
    1    Steve Sherman
    1    Synergy
    1    T. Lavitz
    1    Tod Machover
    1    Tom Benson
    1    Tony Banks     
    1    Ultravox
    1    Vladimir Ussachevsky     <----- changed
    1    Yes

- Hoyt

    Keith Emerson certainly has to be one of my biggest.  As a kid, I saved
    up pennies to buy a Moog Satellite, and once I had it started trying
    to learn every Emerson synth lick on record.
    
    Rick Wakeman had a big influence in that I have a few soloing styles
    that are almost like "Wakeman mode".
    
    One guy who really had a tremendous influence who hasn't been mentioned
    yet is Patrick Moraz.  His "i" album really opened my eyes to the
    fact that synths allow us to go much further into the realm of
    "texture" (sortof the cloth backdrops of music - backgrounds, pads,
    etc.).
    
    But oddly enough, I probably learned more about using synths from
    listening to T-40 records than anything else.
    
    Other notables, but perhaps not influences:
    
    	Isao Tomita
    	Vangelis
    
    

    Whoops - I STILL left out Swing Out Sister. Next edition.
    
    - Hoyt

    Swing Out Sister is the band name. I believe it's just one guy and a
    woman doing everything. I can't recommend the first album highly
    enough. (So why did I go brain-dead and forget the title???) It's the
    album that ISN'T named "Kaliediscope World". The opening track,
    "Breakout" is a tour de force in the use of MIDI and synths to create
    dance music. It's real easy to forget that you're NOT listening to 
    a big band, the emulation is that good.
    
    Edd

	I wouldn't call it dance music.

	Fresh Aire III and IV are my favorites, but I and II are quite
	interesting examples of early mixing of acoustic/electronic media.

	I doubt you'll find a copy of anything Paul Beaver and Bernard Krause
	did still in print, although Bernie Krause is still at Berkeley doing
	things (Paul Beaver died about 10 years ago). The one title I have
	is called "Ragnarok" and dates from maybe 1970, on the Limelight label.
	All archaic by today's standards, but quite rootsy, so far as what
	was going on in 1970 on the West Coast in a then-new medium.


	/pjh

1) Chick Corea
2) Jan Hammer
3) Herbie Hancock
4) Keith Emerson
5) Rick Wakeman
6) Roger Powell
7) Patrick Moraz
8) Isao Tomita
9) Edgar Winter
10) Steve Hunt 

    I used to like Poe`me electronique by Edgard Var�se also.  The original
    was for hundreds of speakers arranged spherically around the audience
    at a world's fair hall in the 50's.  Real surround sound.
    Harrison Birtwistle, I am pretty sure, wrote a piece I heard of all
    clock ticking sounds, a montage, and alarms going off.  I heard it
    ripped off later by some rock band who made a rock sandwich by putting
    a montage of clock sounds at the beginning and end and a rock song in
    the middle.
    I preferred the original, which made no concessions to popular taste.
    Tom

    Someone with adventure in their soul should take up that offer of
    Ed's.  I was going to say something about Phaedra in explaining the
    early Tangerine Dream (which is where *I* learned about backdrops,
    etc.).  Phaedra is NOT commusic.  Mellotron.  Modular Moog
    w/eight-stage analog sequencer.  Phase shifter.  Echo.   Very
    minimalist/experimental for the most part.  Found percussion.
    I find it's hard to talk sensibly about things you love.  There's a
    broad streak of romantic influence running through it, though 'tis a
    post-psycedelic romanticism.  If you know who Phaedra was, you can be
    amused at the playground sounds very subtly mixed in at the end of that
    piece.  "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" is probably
    my favorite piece of Mellotron playing.  That's an original Mellotron
    (to my knowledge, anyway) not a Mark V, or a Chamberlin.  There's some
    really nice Mark V orchestration on Edgar Froese's "Epsilon in
    Maylasian Pale" solo album, which is where you should go next if you
    liked Phaedra.  Both are on Virgin CD's at decent prices these days.
    An excellent TD bargin is the double-album complete on one CD,
    "Encore."  
    
    	Eirikur
    

    The few I can remember -:
    
    Stevie Wonder - The secret life of plants(that turned me on to synths)
    Herbie Hancock - lots of stuff
    Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart and others
    Jeff Lorber -Jeff Lorber Fusion 1st and 2nd Albums(can't remember the names)
    Keyboardist of Yellow Jackets- Can't remember his name
    
    And the countless others I have heard on WEVO (Concord, NH in the
    evening) If you like newage, fusion and jazz it is a great show that
    transitions thru each type.
    
    Sorry for the transgression.
    
    Errol
    ps (I don't worry about spelling only the message) :-{)

Someone a few replies back asked for suggestions of what Chick Corea 
(Return To Forever) albums (CDs) to buy. I HIGHLY recommend both "Hymn of the 
Seventh Galaxy" (if you can find it--has anybody seen it on CD yet??), and 
"No Mystery". 

Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy is Chick's first foray into the world of electric 
instruments, and I don't think there is really a lot of synth stuff on it 
(mostly electric piano), but still this is great stuff IMHO.   

No Mystery is the first Chick Corea (Return to Forever) album to feature Al 
DiMeola on guitar. Features some classic Chick, like "Celebration Suite". 
Great album.

Mike D

    
    I haven't seen "Hymn" yet but the "Compact Jazz" CD of Chick's contains
    primarily tracks from the first three RTF albums (most of Chick's solo
    stuff at that time went to ECM).  You get "Senor Mouse", a couple of
    tracks from "No Mystery" and a few from the Airto/Flora Purim/Joe
    Farrell version of the band (including "5000 Miles High").
    
    						Brian  

    Ensembles for Synthesizers by Henri Pousseur is kind of thrilling.
    Tom

    
    
    Re--- A few back
    
    Jane Child ????
    Jane Child is to subtlety what Karl Moeller is to modesty....
    ;-)
    
    New order are currently number one in the U.K. charts singing with the
    England World Cup "FOOTBALL" team .
    Is that Commusic ????
    
    					Paul.
    
    			(Gazza is my hero)
    
    

    
    Some of my favs - 
    
    Kraftwerk
    Tangerine Dream
    Brian Eno
    
    And a couple of bands whose synth players names escape me:
    
    Gong (I think the synth player went by the name of Hi T. Moonweed)
    Pere Ubu
    The Tubes (saw them live once and the synth player had this monstrous
               analog setup)
    
    Rob
    
     
     

    
    I guess I got started with "the classic" - "Switched On Bach" by Walter
    (Wendy?) Carlos.  That and Synergy (Synergy IS Larry Fast, by the way)
    "Electronic Realizations" had me hooked.
    
    Others:
    	Ceciel and Margoleiff
    	Isao Tomita
    	Donald ("Buck Dharma") Roeser of Blue Oyster Cult
    	ELP
    
    -----
    
    I didn't actually 'get into' synthesis until RPI, in '74 or so, we 
    appropriated some night time on one of the Chemistry Department's
    PDP-15's.  We wired up an R/2R DAC onto the disk controller display
    (light bulbs!  plenty of drive there!) and then ran CPU loops... 
    we even had a compiler because no one could write a program fast 
    enough interpret symbolic note data fast enough to make useful
    sounds!
    
    Worked great till the disk controller blew up and the DEC FE came in
    and said " W*** T** F*** ???" when he saw the extra perfboard
    wired into the disk current cylinder display... and the amplifier...
    and the speaker...  

    
    Re: .40
    
    Buck Dharma?  
    

Re .31 Oooops!!

I forgot to mention Walter Carlos as one on my synth heroes (Switched On 
Bach days, obviously). Sorry Walt...er..I mean..Wendy!!

Mike D

RE .36 

Brian, Senor Mouse is a great tune, but my faves on the album are:

1) After The Cosmic Rain (Stanley Clarke)
2) The Gamemaker
3) the title cut

Does compact jazz include these tunes?

Mike D

    Re: .43
    
    Nope, I think "Senor Mouse" is the only one.  Half of the disk is the
    more acoustic RTF stuff.  Maybe Polydor didn't want to scare everybody
    away with screaming guitars.  8^)  8^)  8^)
    
    						Brian

Another compilation. I've interpreted "ELP" as Keith Emerson, which might 
be unfair to Rick Wakeman if the reference to YES included Rick.

Can someone please tell me about Isao Tomita? What sort of music?
Recommended titles? 

Thanks for the previous recommendations (Chick etc.) -- Hoyt

================================================================================

    6    Chick Corea 		<---- change
    6    Keith Emerson 		<---- change

    5    Isao Tomita		<---- change
    5    Rick Wakeman 		<---- change
    5    Wendy Carlos		<---- change

    4    Tangerine Dream	<---- change

    3    Jan Hammer		<---- change
    3    Kraftwerk		<---- change
    3    Larry Fast    		<---- change
    3    Roger Powell		<---- change
    3    Vangelis		<---- change

    2    Herbie Hancock 	<---- change
    2    Karl Moeller   
    2    Patrick Moraz		<---- change
    2    Peter Gabriel 
    2    Suzanne Ciani
    2    Thomas Dolby

    1    Argent
    1    Art of Noise
    1    Bill Nelson   
    1    Brian Eno		<---- change
    1    Caberet Voltaire
    1    Cage and Hiller
    1    Ceciel and Margoleiff	<---- change
    1    Constance Denby
    1    Cyrille Verdeaux
    1    David Parsons
    1    Depeche Mode
    1    Devo 
    1    Don Slepian
    1    Donald ("Buck Dharma") Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult)	<---- change
    1    Eddie Jobson 
    1    Edgar Winter		<---- change
    1    Edgard Var�se 		<---- change
    1    Egberto Gismonte
    1    Erasure
    1    Gong (Hi T. Moonweed)	<---- change
    1    Harlan Rogers
    1    Harrison Birtwistle	<---- change
    1    Henri Pousseur 	<---- change
    1    Jane Child
    1    Jean Michelle Jarre 
    1    Jean-Luc Ponty 
    1    Jeff Lorber 		<---- change
    1    Joan LaBarbara
    1    Karlheinz Stockhausen     
    1    Laurie Spiegel            
    1    Mannheim Steamroller
    1    Mike Oldfield 
    1    Morton Subotnik
    1    Paul Beaver/Bernard Krause
    1    Pere Ubu		<---- change
    1    Richard Souther
    1    Sigue Sigue Sputnik 
    1    Steve Hunt 		<---- change
    1    Steve Sherman
    1    Stevie Wonder 		<---- change
    1    Swing Out Sister	<---- change
    1    Synergy
    1    T. Lavitz
    1    The Tubes 		<---- change
    1    Tod Machover
    1    Tom Benson
    1    Tony Banks     
    1    Ultravox
    1    Vladimir Ussachevsky     
    1    Yes

    Tomita is a Japanese synthesist who had a number of popular albums in
    the 70s where he performed classical warhorses like Holsts's "The
    Planets" on synths, much in the vein of what Walter Carlos had done
    with Bach.  I recall an album of Debussy pieces, the Holst album, one
    of Stravinsky ("Firebird" maybe?), Mussorsgky's "Pictures".  
    
    He recorded for RCA.  Haven't seen anything from him since the early
    eighties.Maybe he changed his name to Kitaro....8^)  8^)  Just
    kidding...
    
    						Brian

    "Planets" is an old favorite... I'll have to check out Tower! 
    
    - Hoyt

My brother was into Tomita awhile back.  I quite like his stuff.  Fav's of 
mine of his stuff are Moussorgsky and Debussy, as well as the Stravinsky album.

Chad

    Has anyone heard of Hector Olivera?  He's from Argentine (I think), and
    from what I've read a "child prodogy" on the piano and organ.  He plays
    an instrument he calls the "0/1 Orchestra", which used to be a 9-manual
    (keyboard) monster that today would be called "old-tech".  Now, he uses
    3 manuals - 2 from a Yamaha HX-1 "organ" (it's really just a 2-keyboard
    synth/sampler-plus-other-stuff) plus a Roland S-50 sampler.  He plays a
    variety of music styles, heavy on the classical organ and orchestral
    works.  I've seen him live and heard one of his tapes; quite a
    performaer and quite an arranger, I'd say!  People are usually in AWE
    after a convert; he often ends with the 1812 Overture (the percussion
    is sequenced, the rest he plays live) ...
    
    I've been curious if other COMMUCIC'ers have heard (of) him ...
    
    	-Jim

  <<< Note 2359.49 by FGVAXX::LAING "Soft-Core Cuddler*Jim Laing*282-1476" >>>
                              -< Hector Olivera >-

Yes, I've heard of him. He's a great player (heard one of his tapes). Used to be
associated with Yamaha, I think, in some capacity.

Mike D

    I have never heard of him.
    Tom

    Kraftwerk, New Order, Pet Shop Boys (some of the remixes, not the
    singles), Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembley, Erasure)

    Oh, and Adamski, Hummanoid, Mark Moore (S-Express) & Tim Simmenon.

    Oh yeah, I forgot the Pet Shop Boys, love that stuff.
    
    - Hoyt

                      -{ Midi/Synth Music Maniac }-
    
    Saw a lot of names passing by reading the first 54 replies.
    I still think some are forgotten.
    The following names are the ones I think who made the change from
    electronic sounds to real music.
    
    "It" Carlos
    Suzanne Ciani
    Tangerine Dream
    Jean Michel Jarre (his first albums)
    Rick Wakeman
    Keith Emmerson
    Kitaro ( his first 12 albums,japanese releases so no Geffen labal)
    Michael Genest
    Michael Garrison
    Don Robertson
    Ad Visser (his first albums)
    Martin Agterberg
    Vangelis (especially "Antartica")
    Gandalf
    John Kerr
    etc.etc.etc.
    
    But the ultimate experience after about 20 concerts from several
    of these guys(+ one she and one "it") is a KITARO concert.
    If you're able to go to one :DO !!!!!!!
    
            Arie.
    
    

    I really must add that, in truth, my favorite synthetic hero is Gumby.
    
    	Eirikur (Friday afternoon doc review burnout case)

    Gotta go with Malzelle and his PanHarmonicon.
    Tom

    Emerson, Wakeman, Corea, Hancock, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Larry
    Fast, and many more, but how about some more votes for the great
    sounds, and fantastic playing of Mr. Tony Banks!!??!!
    
    Wes
    
    a devoted,fanatical, "over the edge" Genesis freak

                     <<< Note 2359.59 by NRADM::OSTIGUY >>>
                               -< TONY BANKS!!! >-

Yeah, I almost forgot about him. I like his stuff.

Mike D

    re:2359.55
    
    I forgot a few guys.
    
    David Arkenstone
    Tomita
    Yanni
    Michael Stearns
    Hans Visser
    
    
    Greetings,
                   Arie.
    

     <<< Note 2359.61 by HLFS00::GROEN_A "from the GREAT small country" >>>
>    I forgot a few guys.
>    Michael Stearns
    
    Arie, I know Michael slightly.  His brother Philip is one of my best 
    friends.  I was at the LA Bench center last weekend and visited Philip,
    and on Saturday we visited Michael's studio in Santa Monica He is
    still set up for 6-channel IMAX soundtracks.  He's done several, most
    notably CHRONOS, by the 'Koyaanasqatsi' folks.
    
    karl in Tucson

re .59:

You're right about Tony Banks, what he has done in Genesis is amazing...we
old Genesis freaks always seem to agree...

Also Keith Emerson gets a vote from me, he was ahead of his time in ELP!

Also:

    Ed Jobson (for his work in UK)
    Chick Corea (for his incredible jazz feeling)
    Dave Stewart (for his work with Bill Bruford)
    Rick Wakeman (for his always recognizeable work in Yes)

Poul (not a synth hero)

    
    Discovered this topic a bit late, but anyway:
                  
    Influencer			Best Albums
    ----------			-----------
    
    Kraftwerk 			(Autobahn, Trans Europe Express, Man
    				Machine, Radio Activity)
    
    Jean-Michel Jarre     	Zoolook (best sampling album ever IMOO)
    (note the spelling!!!)      Equinoxe, Oxygene, Champs Magnetiques
    				(new album out: Waiting for Cousteau)
                         
    				Do you know he's the best selling
    				synth-only artist in the world?
    
    				Spectacular concerts (Live in China)		
    
    Tangerine Dream		If you don't like Phaedra try their
    				fabulous 2CD compilation album
    				"Dream Sequence" (incl. 20 min tracks,
    				140 min. of music!!)
    
    Larry Fast/Synergy		Electronic Realizations/Chords/Sequencer
    
    Klaus Schulze		Where is this #1 synth guy during the
    				70-ties in Europe in this topic???
        			listen to Audentity, Moondawn, Body
    				Love, Picture Music, X, etc.
    
    Telex			Belgian fun-copy of Kraftwerk. Neurovision
    				and Looking for Sain-Tropez
    
    Vangelis (old albums)	Spiral (one of the best synth albums ever),
    				Heaven & Hell, China
    
    That's it for me...
    
    regards,
    Jeroen	
    	  					                                                                 
    
    

Another (last) compilation:
    
    9    Keith Emerson 		<---- change

    8    Chich Corea 		<---- change
    8    Rick Wakeman 		<---- change

    7    Tangerine Dream 	<---- change

    6    Isao Tomita		<---- change
    6    Kraftwerk		
    6    Wendy Carlos		<---- change

    5    Larry Fast    		<---- change
    5    Vangelis 		<---- change

    3    Herbie Hancock 	<---- change
    3    Jan Hammer		
    3    Jean-Michel Jarre 	<---- change
    3    Roger Powell		
    3    Suzanne Ciani		<---- change
    3    Tony Banks 		<---- change

    2    Erasure		<---- change
    2    Karl Moeller   
    2    New Order 		<---- change
    2    Patrick Moraz		
    2    Pet Shop Boys 		<---- change
    2    Peter Gabriel 
    2    Thomas Dolby

    1    Ad Visser		<---- change
    1    Adamski 		<---- change
    1    Argent
    1    Art of Noise
    1    Bill Nelson   
    1    Brian Eno		
    1    Caberet Voltaire
    1    Cage and Hiller
    1    Ceciel and Margoleiff	
    1    Constance Denby
    1    Cyrille Verdeaux
    1    Dave Stewart 		<---- change
    1    David Arkenstone	<---- change
    1    David Parsons
    1    Depeche Mode
    1    Devo 
    1    Don Robertson		<---- change
    1    Don Slepian
    1    Donald ("Buck Dharma") Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult)	
    1    Ed Jobson 		<---- change
    1    Eddie Jobson 
    1    Edgar Winter		
    1    Edgard Var�se 		
    1    Egberto Gismonte
    1    Gandalf		<---- change
    1    Gong (Hi T. Moonweed)	
    1    Hans Visser		<---- change
    1    Harlan Rogers
    1    Harrison Birtwistle	
    1    Hector Olivera		<---- change
    1    Henri Pousseur 	
    1    Hummanoid 		<---- change
    1    Jane Child
    1    Jean-Luc Ponty 
    1    Jeff Lorber 		
    1    Joan LaBarbara
    1    John Kerr		<---- change
    1    Karlheinz Stockhausen     
    1    Kitaro 		<---- change
    1    Klaus Schulze		<---- change
    1    Laurie Spiegel            
    1    Mannheim Steamroller
    1    Mark Moore 		<---- change
    1    Martin Agterberg	<---- change
    1    Michael Garrison	<---- change
    1    Michael Genest		<---- change
    1    Michael Stearns	<---- change
    1    Mike Oldfield 
    1    Morton Subotnik
    1    Paul Beaver/Bernard Krause
    1    Pere Ubu		
    1    Richard Souther
    1    Sigue Sigue Sputnik 
    1    Steve Hunt 		
    1    Steve Sherman
    1    Stevie Wonder 		
    1    Swing Out Sister	
    1    Synergy
    1    T. Lavitz
    1    Telex			<---- change
    1    The Tubes 		
    1    Tim Simmenon		<---- change
    1    Tod Machover
    1    Todd Rundgren 		<---- change
    1    Tom Benson
    1    Ultravox
    1    Vladimir Ussachevsky     
    1    Yanni			<---- change
    1    Yes

    I'll tender another vote for Dave Stewart (Eurythmics). The first
    American LP (the one with "Sweet Dreams") is a gorgeous listen. With
    earphones, the synth layers evoke an image of a wide and *deep* space
    with a captivating richness of color and tone. Some of the lyrics are
    killer, too, but I'd enjoy the album sans vocals.
    
    - Hoyt

re .66:

You must be talking about another Dave Stewart than I am - we have 2 of
them, I think: the one I mentioned is the one who played very jazz-in-
fluenced music with Bill Bruford/Jeff Berlin/Alan Holdsworth, the one
from Eurythmics cannot be the same...

Poul

    I'm probably not remembering accurately. I have a perfectly reliable
    memory: I remember nothing. My mind is like a steel trap, rusted shut.
    I forget my other standard bad memory jokes. I'll look it up.
    
    - Hoyt

    It *is* David Stewart in the Eurythmics. Check out "Sweet Dreams..."
    
    - Hoyt