try 1492: conquest of paradise by vangelis

rbgws1, April 2, 2009; 9:48 PM

Oh, yes. That could be wiorth a try. I remember the title track which was played back in the 90s in the radio.
Any other ideas? :-)

bulletride, April 3, 2009; 9:59 AM

Try with the work of Basil Poledouris. The score for Wind is quite similar.

roboteos, April 3, 2009; 11:14 AM

Oh, though I listened (and have) some of his works (both Conan, Robocop etc.) I never heard of Wind before. Will check it out. thanks!

bulletride, April 3, 2009; 11:25 AM

At the weekend I used youtube and various mp3 stores to get some previews of 1492 and Wind.
After I listened to what I found I must say that these scores are somewhat to happy and soft. Ok, there are some parts fitting a bit to my search but overall it´s not really what I was looking for.
If I remember it right only "Conquest of Paradise Pt1" and the track no. 5 (or was it no. 6) from Wind came a bit close to it...

In general they were not triumphant/heroic/marching/driving enough...

Any other ideas? :-)

bulletride, April 6, 2009; 5:13 AM

Welcome to the site. We NEED some fresh tastes up in this madam.

* Amin Bhatia - THE INTERSTELLAR SUITE.
Unquestionably cheesy. Highly 1980s. Action and heroism. NO CHOIR. There is some big "orchestration", but it's not a case of abused, starving instrumental samples strung together by their leashes. Purely synthetic, every noise of it was engineered from scratch.

It was billed as space music, and now may be relegated to "new age" category, but it's really just synth, not new age, and stylistically more in line with the soundtracks of B-movies. If performed by orchestra, it would fit right into a Roland Emmerich movie.

* Koji Kondo - THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: SOUND & DRAMA. It's near-impossible now to find this album legitimately, and even when you could, you pretty much had to live in Japan. Nintendo will never, never re-release this, so grab it wherever you can. Disc 2 is the (SNES!) game cartridge's original sound versions, and disc 1 is more expensive synth arrangements, plus an irritating radio drama thing (in Japanese). Even if I spoke Japanese, I am certain it would be irritating still.

* Tangerine Dream - STRATOSFEAR. Pure action. Exhilarating. Not heroic, but driving. Not much of Tangerine Dream can be described in terms of emotional content. Very slightly psychedelic. LOGOS is slightly more psychedelic, but slightly more sedate in parts. LOGOS, unlike STRATOSFEAR, actually does originate as soundtrack music.

* Michael Hoenig - BALDUR'S GATE. The flavor fits the links you've posted, but depressingly most of the best tracks of this game soundtrack are ripoffs of movie music. I think he DID just string together a bunch of samples. There are probably a LOT of other game scores worth mention that I can't think of or just don't know. To be honest, game music is probably your best bet, not film music. The cheesy synth stuff from films usually never sees the light of day outside the movie.


* Wendy Carlos. Her style is different from what you've posted. See what you think of TRON, now that it's *finally* available. There is *occasional* choir. It doesn't stick around very long.

*Andrew Powell. LADYHAWKE. Actually only maybe 50% of the album is synth. If you don't like The Alan Parsons Project, you won't like this.

* Jean Michel Jarre. Non-soundtrack. Dramatically different than what you've posted. Not film-musicky at all, but still action-packed. Trance-esque, and influenced by European disco, which (relax) is not really related to American disco. Audition MAGNETIC FIELDS or RENDEZ-VOUS

* Vangelis. Synth for synth's sake. I want to suggest so many things, but the stupid fact is that, though there have been a dozen or so compilations of his work, none of them comprise all his most driving tracks. There's no "workout" album. The end titles to BLADERUNNER is what I started listening to him with. See what you think, but I wouldn't bother with that album. Also, try "Pulstar" and "Alpha" (originally from ALBEDO 0.39).

* Georgio Moroder - the "Ivory Tower" track from THE NEVER-ENDING STORY. Probably the first synth track I ever heard. MOST TRIUMPHANT! Discoish.

zuvqwyx3, April 7, 2009; 4:45 AM

Wow - thank you very much for this detailed answer! :-)

I will definetly check out all the stuff, esp. Amin Bhatia sounds like it could be "mine".
Tangerine Dream and Jarre are also to found in my collection but if I got it right, I don´t have the "Stratosfear" album (only some kind of Best of comp. and Remix albums).

Game music is also well known to me but - due to the sheer mass of it - I haven´t listened to Baldur´s Gate or the mentioned Zelda stuff yet. I´m very much into original and remixed stuff of classic 80s games from the Amiga and C64. Maybe I should put an eye on the more epic RPG stuff from modern PCs etc.
That reminds me to recommend John Debney´s fan-tas-tic piece of art in form of the soundtrack for the PS3 game "Lair" to all of you! Absolutely brilliant, bombastic stuff! (listen to the main theme here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhy2hCcCQ8w )

Besides "Bladerunner" (which I own) and "1492" (which I listened to via youtube etc.) I don´t know any Vangelis stuff (shame on me...) but I will also check out the aones you mentioned.

Lots of new stuff for me to check out - great! :-)

bulletride, April 7, 2009; 5:06 AM