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Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Synth band discussion
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 09:35:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 09:35:33 1985
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>	I've always liked 'Wall-of-sound' bands such as Yes, Pink Floyd, and 
> some of Eno's stuff.  I've slowly amassed most of their repective albums,
> especially Pink Floyd.  I've also begun porting my favorites to tape, so
> I can enjoy them in my car, which has a decent sound system.
>
>	Another favorite of mine is Tangerine Dream, which
> shares Germany as a home country with Kraftwerk.
>
>		Mark J. Norton
>		{decvax,linus,wjh12,mit-eddie,cbosgd,masscomp}!genrad!panda!mjn
>		mjn@sunspot

There was a time that I could have appreciated your taste in synthetic artists.  
However, with the exception of Kraftwerk, the above mentioned bands were more
analog artists than synthetic artists.  i.e. Thier oscillators and signal proces-
sesors/generators were analog.  The editing/engineering techniques were analog 
oriented.  Don't take this wrong, the works are great but what year is this, 1985
right?!

I realize that everyone has their own preferences, especially when it comes to some-
thing as subjective as musical taste.  YES, Floyd, T Dream were great bands for 
their time.  They produced some great works.  If one hasn't heard these works before
then by all means check them out.  Personally, between the ages of 15 to 22 or so
I really enjoyed them; they were the happening groups at that time.  By now the time-
liness and freshness has long since departed.

A sampling of groups that have been around recently that are a little less intro-
spective yet really fresh and alive are:

Paul Young	Thomas Dolby	Paul Haig	Wall of Voodoo	Robert Gorl
Specimen	FREEEZE		Prince Charles & the City Beat Band
Yello		Ice House	The System	Cabaret Voltaire
Ultravox	Berlin		Scrity Polity	Yukihiro Takahashi
Afrika Bombata & the Soul Sonic Force	New Order	Visage
Hardcore	SSQ	John Foxx	Ministry	Harold Faultimier
Blancmange	The Stranglers