Solarstone – Love Theme from Blade Runner (Pure Mix)
Solarstone has released a new remix based on the End Titles to Blade Runner, details below:
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Drawing from one of Vangelis’ most renowned soundtracks, Solarstone has rebooted the theme from the audio auteur’s hallowed ‘Blade Runner’ soundtrack. He has brought trance purity to the beautifully sinister tones of its title theme. Utilizing it as a last tune of the night ID-weapon for many a month, the track (now christened ‘Love Theme from Blade Runner’) has been given the official seal of approval. The trance master is now set to release his love letter to ‘Blade Runner’.
“The doomy night-black drama of Vangelis’ echoing piano chimes have rarely sounded better” — DJ Mag (Sept 2013)
Losing none of its ominous awe-inspiring atmosfear, through Solarstone’s ‘Love Theme From Blade Runner’ Vangelis’ now exerts a hypnotic thrall over the club floor. Using the classic strains of ‘End Titles’, Richard fires the Original’s balanced nexus of dystopian melancholia and towering elevation through the Pure prism.
Developing a pounding sonic underlay, built from pistoning drums, dramatic orchestral cymbal crashes and undulating bass swells, he sets the stage for its big dramatic soundscapes. Retrofitting Vangelis’ analogue synthesizers & FX with purified trance mechanics and unrelenting tension, he filters its darkly timeless melodic chimes into the mix’s system. Brilliantly drawn out over nine fissionable, charged minutes he points Vangelis’ 30-year-old classic at the very heart of the club floor.
New DVD with synth pioneer Vangelis – Vangelis And The Journey To Ithaka
E-mu Emulator ”Blade Runner” disk
A famous disk – reportedly E-mu sampled the radio for the reggae loop and trumpet.
Vangelis in the Studio
Vangelis Papathanassiou in a studio in Paris preparing material for his album “See You Later”. In this clip he is warming up (improvising?) and warming the singers and drummers who are assembling for the session. Clip 2 will be material from that recording session. More information about Videoheads’ activities and their collection available at http://videoheads.info
Synth spotting: I Feel Blade Runner Love
http://youtu.be/T1hZgELpBGU
Background information:
On my Kawai SR-7 organ. Homage to “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer and “Blade Runner Theme” by Vangelis. These seem to gel together in a loose way. Yamaha HS-8 on the right has nice string sounds.
New interview with synth pioneer Vangelis: A message of hope
The internationally celebrated Greek composer talks about the role of music in times of chaos, crisis and uncertainty.
Vangelis – conquest of paradise
Vangelis began his professional musical career working with several popular bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite’s Child, with the latter’s album 666 going on to be recognized as a psychedelic “classic”. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed music scores for several animal documentaries, including L’Apocalypse Des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis. In 1981, he composed the score for the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire. The soundtrack’s single, “Titles”, won Vangelis the Academy Award for Best Original Music Score and also reached the top of the American Billboard.
In a career spanning over 50 years, writing and composing more than 52 albums, Vangelis is regarded by some music critics as one of the greatest composers of electronic music of all time
Vangelis CS80 sound from a moog little phatty …finally!
“Working on the moog for a while, didn’t like it at first, vary raw and growly..:) trying to tame it”
Originally created on a Yamaha CS-80, it’s been mimicked on just about every synth released.
Here, mik300z, who’s a master at ‘reverse-engineering’ iconic synth sounds, improvises with his take on the iconic sound, recreated on a Moog Little Phatty, with the help of the ‘Hall’ reverb preset on a Behringer mixer.
Rare video with Vangelis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WJOCEm_rRM&feature=player_embedded
Yamaha CS80 with built in ring mod effects.
“Rare footage of Vangelis performing an improvisation on synthesizer at his Nemo Studios.
Some enhancement of the original poor tape video with denoising, contrast improvement and color correction.
Sound remastering for better clearity and stereo imaging.
Via MS
Vangelis and Neuronium live session at the Nemo Studios in 1982.
Last week we posted on Vangelis and now more material are showing up, restored from old VHS tapes I guess, enjoy
“Vangelis and Neuronium perform together in a live session at the Nemo Studios in 1982.
Poor VHS images restored a little on contrast, sharpness and colour. Sound remastered for better clearity and stereo imaging.
Detail:
Neuronium released this live performance years later on a cd; the complete track is available on iTunes if you search on their name.
Enjoy! – Nimanty -“
Interview series with Vangelis
Interview ‘The Man And His Music’, with Vangelis in 1984, at his own Nemo Studios.
Re-edited and remastered for better audio quality and stereo imaging
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