Ayreon put most of his work on his youtube channel so you can listen to it as much you like, I have to say that Arjen is probably the nicest artist on this planet, despite the things he accomplished he always remains really modest, even shy a little. From The Source: The day that the world breaks down. Featuring singers: 00:28 James LaBrie (Dream Theater) 03:10 Tommy Karevik (Kamelot, Seventh Wonder) 03:31 Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) 03:38 Simone Simons (Epica) 04:32 Nils K. Rue (Pagan's Mind) 05:30 Tobias Sammet (Avantasia, Edguy) 06:29 Hansi Kursch (Blind Guardian) 07:20 Michael Mills (Toehider) 09:00 Russell Allen (Symphony X, Adrenaline Mob) 09:30 Michael Eriksen (Circus Maximus) 12:01 Floor Jansen (Nightwish) More ambient/synthy And The Druides Turn To Stone. And yes.. you can hear a Moog Taurus on this one..
I quite like The day that the world breaks down. Thanks for the video... This is a good example of the electronic sound I like with an edge, same artist also did a riff with an Ozzy cut that I thought was bomb:
^^ Not entirely my style but I assume quite a lot of the music I listen to won't be the style other people like. Delerium -Hypoxia Love this one, one of the nicest SF soundtracks I know. And as a contrast Null Positv -Koma And that is how my brain works.
Yeah, I hear you on musical tastes being pretty personal and maybe not to many others' liking. My electronic tastes back in the day ranged from ambient, to trip hop/lounge, to drum & bass, right on into jungle, etc. so pretty much the gamut. There was this one guy I used to listed to who incorporated a lot of samples from Blade Runner into his stuff. Wish I could recall the artist's name... That Hypoxia track is pretty cool...
I also like trance quite a lot, depending who's the artist. Airbase -Escape Or if you like a slightly more chaotic track.. It is used in Saints Row III which is one of my favorite games ever, this track is kinda just as fun and chaotic. Dilemn -Pitiless
That's a hell of a list of vocalists. Admittedly I only have albums from 4 of those bands (Kamelot, Epica, Circus Maximus & Nightwish/Floor Jansen (After Forever)), but I have videos from a lot of the other bands. I think that's a vintage Leslie speaker at 1:33. A must have for the Hammond organ owner.
Yep, you're right, Arjen loves old organs and old analog synthesisers, as for the album, and also his previous ones, they are awesome, they're so lovingly made and each and every vocalist pulls out every bit of what they're capable off and then some, same with the guest musicians... I hope one day he'll ask Jean-Michel Jarre.
Back in the 60's & 70's, my Dad had a Hammond B3 & Leslie speaker in our living room. It's a pretty imposing set of furniture.
Those old beast are lovely, I like the way they look and the technology behind them but there's only one "organ" I would love to have, that's the Eminent 310u in the 1970's the Dutch firm who build it decided to also fit the single most powerful string synthesiser ever into this beast, a certain Jean-Michel Jarre picked it up and connected the output to a Electro Harmonix small stone phaser, the rest is history. Nice demo with it including the phaser. Of course I would not pass up owning this thing...
@Santaman That ambient track you posted (Airbase) reminds me of a band I used to listen to that I cannot recall the name of. I don't have any of those CDs anymore either. I can picture the front of the album, but if I recall it I'll post. You might like Ozric tentacles, if you haven't heard em already... early, electronic-style... a guy I worked with in LA who used to spin at clubs in Chicago in the late 80s/early 90s turned me on to them. During live shows if they were about to "train wreck" they'd play the same error like 3 or 4 times in a row and continue on... it made it such that the audience had no clue they flubbed. That was some sort of "Law of Tentacles" I think.
^^ Interesting, not bad. So you want 90's? or a little before that? Alexander Robotnick and Ludus Pinsky: The Analog Sessions -N5 from Outer Space I HAD to buy the CD/DVD to show my support these two gentlemen deserved it, the modular synth on the right is a Formant Modular http://synthmuseum.com/elektor/eleform01.html
I'm not sure which vintage keyboards Tuomas Seppälä used when he visited Benny Andersson's studio earlier in the year, but this song shows a clear love for ABBA, despite Amberian Dawn being symphonic metal...and Finnish.
https://soundcloud.com/h92o/unfinity-of-infinite-universes something I made a month ago using the iPad animoog synthesizer --- before I had to mix it out to garage band and such for multi tracking .. it is only like three tracks here... on the syth from moog. switching over I moved into the next work where one of my creations was placed with two others creations and mixed and such for this outcome here ==== https://www.dropbox.com/s/w3sobhf09ob78gd/layton_newbold_mimlitsch_bsmith_-_otherland.mp3 I don't know if the dropbox will work but we will see.. it is cool
^^The one on soundcloud was almost ambient-ish the dropbox one quite chaotic, as for the animoog, like all non real analogs it sounds too clean which is simply because you can't emulate inherent instabilities of the hardware. Retrosound has a channel where he demonstrates a huge amount of analog and also digital synths. He's using a Yamaha GX-1 which is a HUGE theather sized polyphonic analog synth, also a testbed for the CS-80 which is a marvelous old analog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_GX-1
I listen to most everything casually but the genres I really heck with area old school prog and neo-psychedelic rock made by hecking weirdos
I just recalled (oddly enough, why now?) the artist who used the Blade Runner clips... Kid Loops, but I think it was just this one song. I wish I still had this album, argh...
Listening to Berlin, "Now It's My Turn" Edit: You folk have me turning out my turntable... Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to be followed by Led Zepplin IV and, of course, The Dark Side of the Moon. (am I showing my age here...?) I forgot for a moment... A Night at the Opera The collected catalog of the Traveling Willburys...(This might take YEARS)
Prog? Hmm.. Vuur -My Champion Berlin And a little metal, I am actually so fortunate that I will see Lacuna Coil in concert in December , as far as I know they will perform this song as well then. Blood, Tears, Dust which I love, the atmosphere of this song is really special.