Electronic Music That Inspired You

[Bombadil]

Wendy Carlos—A Clockwork Orange.

[resynthesis]

John Carpenter, Hawkwind and Radiophonic Workshop

[jancivil]

Fripp and Eno Evening Star.
in particular, An Index of Metals

[Yadrichik_Chaya]

Grew up with Nintendo 8-bit, Super Nintendo 16-bit, Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) music 24/7. It has had the most influence on me of all music I've ever listened to and loved.

There are way too many songs in various games to mention but the game developers Konami were the absolute best when it came to music with their group of composers called Konami Kukeiha Club.

The soundtrack to Castlevania IV is absolutely amazing:
Aaaahh such a beautiful & genius song:



As a young kid making the transition from listening to the Gradius III soundtrack to listening to jazz-fusion violinist Jean-Luc Ponty was very easy!

[mumpcake]

Mostly prog and new wave. Maybe some early 80s electro-funk.

[PatchAdamz]

Fripp and Eno Evening Star.
in particular, An Index of Metals

Yea, got that one way back and played the sh!t out of it.....
Maybe their best work together.

This also got a good deal of rotations:

Eno/Moebius/Roedelius

[PatchAdamz]

This was a BIG influence, especially the percussion:

Jon Hassel and Brian Eno

[gnu23]

Wendy Carlos—A Clockwork Orange.

It was originally Walter Carlos' A Clockwork Orange released in 1972 on the CBS Masterworks label. If you can find it still, get it. It's the full realization of the Carlos vision versus the CD version. Timesteps is revelatory and demonstrates Carlo's genius.

Here's

[gnu23]

Wendy Carlos—A Clockwork Orange.

It was originally Walter Carlos' A Clockwork Orange released in 1972 on the CBS Masterworks label. If you can find it still, get it. It's the full realization of the Carlos vision versus the CD version. Timesteps is revelatory and demonstrates Carlo's genius.

Here's

well foo - I meant to edit not repost

[foosnark]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only Gen X lifelong synth enthusiast who never got into Tangerine Dream and/or JMJ. I feel like I should like both of them, but I neither like nor dislike either of them - they just do absolutely nothing for me

Both of them went through phases where their work was much harder to like. I find a lot of 80s TD super cheesy and a lot of JMJ pretty boring and vanilla. And honestly, I have to be in the right mood for even the "best" JMJ, but it influenced me at the time.

I think my first TD album was Exit which isn't often thought of as one of their classics. Phaedra or Rubycon are more likely. Optical Race is a half-empty can of Cheez Wiz, but because I listened to it in my teen years it still kind of hits a nostalgia thing for me.

Grew up with Nintendo 8-bit, Super Nintendo 16-bit, Sega Mega Drive (Sega Genesis) music 24/7. It has had the most influence on me of all music I've ever listened to and loved.

I grew up with Pong and then Atari 2600 on a black & white TV, so there was not really much music there. But my dad was a regional manager for an arcade chain, and I got to play a lot of actual arcade cabinets free through the early-mid 80s. The music that blew me away the most from then was from TRON -- stereo detuned squarewaves sounding super beefy and lush for an arcade game, and some interesting compositional choices even if we only heard snippets of melodies from the score -- and then Marble Madness, with its Yamaha YM2151 and some brilliant composition and sound design that showed off what FM synthesis could do, even though it was actually pretty cheap and lo-fi. The latter especially inspired me and I still am fond of it today.

[Yadrichik_Chaya]

I grew up with Pong and then Atari 2600 on a black & white TV, so there was not really much music there. But my dad was a regional manager for an arcade chain, and I got to play a lot of actual arcade cabinets free through the early-mid 80s. The music that blew me away the most from then was from TRON -- stereo detuned squarewaves sounding super beefy and lush for an arcade game, and some interesting compositional choices even if we only heard snippets of melodies from the score -- and then Marble Madness, with its Yamaha YM2151 and some brilliant composition and sound design that showed off what FM synthesis could do, even though it was actually pretty cheap and lo-fi. The latter especially inspired me and I still am fond of it today.

Thanks for posting!

I could easily see myself jamming along to the Practice Race track,
not so much the Silly Race track though!
Or then again, maybe Silly Race it is the best track ever for speed exercises on guitar???
- I'll give it a go later on.

Sega Mega Drive/Genesis 16-bit used the Yamaha YM2612, grimey FM sounds galore - Tons of superb music to be heard!

[foosnark]

BTW, Stemage did covers of both the Marble Madness soundtrack (with several guest artists both from chiptunes and not), and the original TRON score as a sort of prog rock thing. Both albums are pretty great!

https://stemage.bandcamp.com/album/wher ... le-madness

https://stemage.bandcamp.com/album/prio ... ic-of-tron

[vurt]

forbidden planet and lots of other early sci fi.
my auntie as ive mentioned before, was part of the scene (worked on bits, her husband was a graphic designer hung with various big names...) which meant they were always watching reels on projectors or vhs when that arrived, so i probably saw more than most people my age at the time (early childhood onwards...) as very little was actually shown on tv here as we only had 3 channels till the 80s.

[runagate]

forbidden planet and lots of other early sci fi.
my auntie as ive mentioned before, was part of the scene (worked on bits, her husband was a graphic designer hung with various big names...) which meant they were always watching reels on projectors or vhs when that arrived, so i probably saw more than most people my age at the time (early childhood onwards...) as very little was actually shown on tv here as we only had 3 channels till the 80s.

I am picturing a baby vurt on delia derbyshire's knee

[vurt]

forbidden planet and lots of other early sci fi.
my auntie as ive mentioned before, was part of the scene (worked on bits, her husband was a graphic designer hung with various big names...) which meant they were always watching reels on projectors or vhs when that arrived, so i probably saw more than most people my age at the time (early childhood onwards...) as very little was actually shown on tv here as we only had 3 channels till the 80s.

I am picturing a baby vurt on delia derbyshire's knee

sadly not that i know of. although could be possible as she did know some of the rw.
there is a photo of me around 6 sat on douglas adams knee at a dinner table, but the top of his head was cut off by bad camera man
the only other person who i actually remember meeting was gerry anderson, again about 6 and she tells me were meeting the thunderbirds
im then sat wondering "who the flip is this old dude and where are the tracys?"
they were in several suit cases