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eric3579 says...

I loved "Cars" when it came out. I have a vivid memory of hearing it for the first time at a record store in the mall. I think my first New Wave (Synth-Pop) album was Freedom Of Choice from Devo. Early 80's i completely jumped in with many New Wave bands. My enjoyment of the genre faded or actually morphed into other electronic type bands soon after.

Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970

newtboy says...

My Pops had a prophet 2000 the mid 80's. The first home digital sampling synth. It had all these options and more to apply to either the basic hum or to any sample. It had reverb, attack, sustain, decay, multiple preset wave forms, speed (of the sample), pitch and tone, and probably 1/2 dozen more I can't recall, all in a keyboard size unit, not a full pipe organ size. The samples came or could be recorded on 3 1/2" floppies, and you could store a huge number of presets to modify them as you wished at the push of one button, not a complete retuning with multiple dials. I had fun remixing James Brown and Prince, but never learned to play well.
Amazing the advancements they made in just 15 years.

What Happened to MIDI? | Nostalgia Nerd

kir_mokum says...

interesting perspective to talk about MIDI as this is a secondary implementation of it. some weird and inaccurate comments though like how "MIDI almost died off" (it didn't) or "MIDI is coming back, kind of, it might not be FM synth..." (MIDI and FM synthesis are completely different things).

Most vocals you hear are fake

vil says...

You can record anything, but please do not pretend to be performing it live if you are not. And if you are forced to pretend, do it in a way that makes it obvious you are pretending, or be prepared to be labeled a fraud and scum of the earth.

If the performances in the video are billed as "celebrity dancing & karaoke" all is perfectly fine.

I find records with one person recognizably singing more than once at the same time weird and uncomfortable, yet hundreds of layers of guitar or synth or percussion noise (by one or two persons) do not faze me. No idea why.

This is all obviously a very pre-sequencer approach to music which must sound really stupid to current computerized generations.

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dannym3141 says...

Damn... I've been hearing snippets of that song everywhere and wondering how an old funky synth song got popular again. Turns out i was wrong for the right reasons.

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UsesProzac says...

Congratulations, Eric!!! You've definitely earned this one. You are synonymous with VideoSift to me. You've been my good friend for years now and I'll always value your friendship!! You're a siftin' fool. Way to go!!!

And Dag, that was some sweet synth. That's going to be stuck in my head for a while.

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newtboy says...

I think I had a lot of these on 3 1/2' floppy disks for my Prophet 2000, from way before CDs. It's mothballed in my garage, I never learned to play the synth. :-(
Where's the James Brown effects?

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Daldain says...

How excellent to see the crowd without smartphones and behaving.

Great song.

Actually, what is with that synth 2/3rds of the way through? Ha.

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iaui says...

I'm not entirely sure but I think it might be some sort of light-sensitive synth, so creating some sort of harmonic spectra based on the light input.

notarobot said:

*music

What did he add to the mix at the end?

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dag says...

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Love this. The original device is pretty cool. I know it's all pretty much available through OK Google or Siri, but it's another incremental step. The voice synth is superior to both IMO.

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Babymetal: J-pop-metal crossover

artician says...

That was.... That had zero artistic value unless you count the amount of effort to engineer and arrange the perfect melding of these things.
In the end, it's just cutesie gothic lolitas prancing around to lull the crowd into ignoring that it's a prerecorded music track, and superficial construct of media.
I guess that's art in some form.
For some reason I still dig it. I guess that's the magic of a pure distillation pop-production.

EDIT: Curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the album. It's pretty funny, and often wanders more into the realm of regular J-pop and electro-synth music, and with one song, for some reason, gangster rap.



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