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Space Oddities ‘69-’83

styleguides — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:15:32 +0000

space is the place! science fiction always played an important part in many music styles, from techno to p-funk, jazz, cosmic, electro etc. this styleguides edition is all about the high class synthesizer trash of early electronic space themes.

bonus music video is the famous doctor who theme composed by ron grainer and realised by delia derbyshire at the bbc radiophonic workshop in 1963, creating one of the first electronic music signature tunes for science fiction tv:

Esoterics ‘79-’84

styleguides — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:59:04 +0000

styleguides gets lost somewhere inbetween krautrock, cosmic, ambient exotica and new age. most of these styleguide tracks are classics from the late 70s and early 80s as usual, but this time there a few newer ambient tracks inbetween too.

bonus video is manuel göttsching’s minimalistic one hour opus ‘e2-e4′ in full psychadelica from klaus schulze’s inteam record label 1984, sampled for the no1 hit ’sueño latino’ in germany and uk 1989.

Cinematic 70s

styleguides — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:11:14 +0000

styleguides goes cinematics again, this time with some great scores of 70s cinema worth remembering:

unfortunately, many of my favourite 70s scores aren’t available at amazon- even my perhaps favourite one is missing, jerry goldsmith’s masterpiece soundtrack for roman polanski’s neo-noir classic ‘chinatown’ with jack nickolson (1974):