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Post: 41556155_1 created on Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:09 pmPosted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:09 pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRaP97D-Vg

First released in 1982

If somebody was wondering, chorus goes:
The control is flashing blue. A signal for safety.
The control is flashing blue. Then everything is as it should be.
If the screen is normal there is no reason to hesitate.
The control is flashing blue. Then everything is as it should be

Kraftwerk songs are too obvious and should not be posted. I do it in this post just for the sake of proving the point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUo-FpG5a58
... and also because the song is the beautifulest (german version is the best but can't find it not being performed live).

Your turn. Notice old means pre 1995... ish
Edit: okay say pre 1990.
 
     
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Post: 41556155_2 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:27 amPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:27 am
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This is too easy. "French Touch 2.0" sounds like everything from 1986.

Far East Family Band - Timeless Phase (1977) sounds a lot like Blur's 13.

I listen to a lot of older music to escape modern sounds, not find them.

And I just realized a big factor in why 80's music on the whole sucks so bad. All of the awesome bands in the 70's were past their prime by then.

Also: that Adolphson & Falk is pretty awesome.

EDIT: I've posted this before, but the guitar on Jean-Luc Ponty's The Struggle Of The Turtle To The Sea, Pt. 3 in 1977 anticipates acid a good ten years in advance.

DOUBLE EDIT: Irrelevant, but there appears to be a bizzare trance cover of Jean-Luc Ponty's "The Trans-Love Express" off of the same album on youtube.
     
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Post: 41556155_3 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:14 amPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:14 am
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"Sinusoid"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWRaP97D-Vg

First released in 1982

If somebody was wondering, chorus goes:
The control is flashing blue. A signal for safety.
The control is flashing blue. Then everything is as it should be.
If the screen is normal there is no reason to hesitate.
The control is flashing blue. Then everything is as it should be

Kraftwerk songs are too obvious and should not be posted. I do it in this post just for the sake of proving the point. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUo-FpG5a58
... and also because the song is the beautifulest (german version is the best but can't find it not being performed live).

Your turn. Notice old means pre 1995... ish


THAT DOES sound modern. Eh. Nice lyrics.
 
     
In 1934 Hitler told the Saar people, come back to the mother land lol

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Post: 41556155_4 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:34 amPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:34 am
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=I53MEgCS15c

not sure if you guys were saying to share songs that were made before 1995 that sound futuristic, or songs that were made before 1995 but sound like they were produced recently, but i think for this song either fits? aphex has always had a charming lo-fi thing going on.
     
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Post: 41556155_5 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:14 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:14 pm
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"Tuaiq"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I53MEgCS15c

not sure if you guys were saying to share songs that were made before 1995 that sound futuristic, or songs that were made before 1995 but sound like they were produced recently, but i think for this song either fits? aphex has always had a charming lo-fi thing going on.


Songs that could be mistaken of being produced recently if you didn't already know they were as old as dirt.

Also: I'm unsure whether music can actually sound futuristic today. I think it was easier some decades ago when new instruments were being introduced. People had never heard perfect sine or squarewaves before and had no reference to it. To them this was so alien it had to be associated with a distant future. The theme music from doctor who does not sound futuristic to me (just awesome), but I bet it did to the people who heard it when the show ran for the first time. We may have already heard every possible sound because they can be created digitally, and even if not, we have at least experienced the extremes in the spectrums of complexity and pitch, and nothing in between will suprise us. If some music sounds new to us today it is not the sound itself but the expression behind it. Of course you can never imagine the unimaginable.

Any thoughts on this?
 
     
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Post: 41556155_6 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:59 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:59 pm
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"Sinusoid"
"Tuaiq"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I53MEgCS15c

not sure if you guys were saying to share songs that were made before 1995 that sound futuristic, or songs that were made before 1995 but sound like they were produced recently, but i think for this song either fits? aphex has always had a charming lo-fi thing going on.


Songs that could be mistaken of being produced recently if you didn't already know they were as old as dirt.

Also: I'm unsure whether music can actually sound futuristic today. I think it was easier some decades ago when new instruments were being introduced. People had never heard perfect sine or squarewaves before and had no reference to it. To them this was so alien it had to be associated with a distant future. The theme music from doctor who does not sound futuristic to me (just awesome), but I bet it did to the people who heard it when the show ran for the first time. We may have already heard every possible sound because they can be created digitally, and even if not, we have at least experienced the extremes in the spectrums of complexity and pitch, and nothing in between will suprise us. If some music sounds new to us today it is not the sound itself but the expression behind it. Of course you can never imagine the unimaginable.

Any thoughts on this?


LOLOLOL, they had sine waves at least in the late 1800's when the Telharmonium was invented. They are hardly a recent invention. The Doctor Who theme is played on a theremin, anyway talk2hand

Someone will just have to start inventing new instruments and styles of music.

And Aphex Twin is modern music, Jesus. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.
     
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Post: 41556155_7 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:18 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:18 pm
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"Waveform"
"Sinusoid"
"Tuaiq"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=I53MEgCS15c

not sure if you guys were saying to share songs that were made before 1995 that sound futuristic, or songs that were made before 1995 but sound like they were produced recently, but i think for this song either fits? aphex has always had a charming lo-fi thing going on.


Songs that could be mistaken of being produced recently if you didn't already know they were as old as dirt.

Also: I'm unsure whether music can actually sound futuristic today. I think it was easier some decades ago when new instruments were being introduced. People had never heard perfect sine or squarewaves before and had no reference to it. To them this was so alien it had to be associated with a distant future. The theme music from doctor who does not sound futuristic to me (just awesome), but I bet it did to the people who heard it when the show ran for the first time. We may have already heard every possible sound because they can be created digitally, and even if not, we have at least experienced the extremes in the spectrums of complexity and pitch, and nothing in between will suprise us. If some music sounds new to us today it is not the sound itself but the expression behind it. Of course you can never imagine the unimaginable.

Any thoughts on this?


LOLOLOL, they had sine waves at least in the late 1800's when the Telharmonium was invented. They are hardly a recent invention. The Doctor Who theme is played on a theremin, anyway talk2hand

Someone will just have to start inventing new instruments and styles of music.

And Aphex Twin is modern music, Jesus. Talk about missing the forest for the trees.


Srlsy guy. How many do you think had heard the Telharmonium in the 1800's?
How many do you think have heard the Telharmonium at all? stressed
 
     
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Post: 41556155_8 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:30 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:30 pm
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"Sinusoid"
Srlsy guy. How many do you think had heard the Telharmonium in the 1800's?
How many do you think have heard the Telharmonium at all? stressed


Point. It's still nothing new.

I dunno, this thread sort of seems geared towards synth-pop. Any music lover can tell the difference between 70's production and modern production.
     
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Post: 41556155_9 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:23 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:23 pm
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"Waveform"

I dunno, this thread sort of seems geared towards synth-pop.


Ya. I got the same feeling.
 
     
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Post: 41556155_10 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:30 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:30 pm
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"Sinusoid"
"Waveform"

I dunno, this thread sort of seems geared towards synth-pop.


Ya. I got the same feeling.


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You're the OP :x
     
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Post: 41556155_11 created on Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:35 pmPosted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:35 pm
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"Waveform"
"Sinusoid"
"Waveform"

I dunno, this thread sort of seems geared towards synth-pop.


Ya. I got the same feeling.


...

You're the OP :x


Ya. It came after you guys posted and I thought "no that's not it" ; >
 
     
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