Oh, hell yes.
This is some super-fine minimal jamón synth in the Aviador Dro vein, complete with original, highly conceptual music videos. As far as I can tell, this stuff wasn't pressed on vinyl. If anyone has a beat on this wax, I'm buying. Peep the Korg MS-20 BTW.
SCHEMATIC: Another outrageously cool video from Oviformia Sci and links to more music...
Oviformia Sci - Hablamamos de Nosotros (1982?)
You can check out the killer Teletipio on Vimeo, more of their tracks on MySpace and even download the Maquetas EP on differentillusion.
Italian film composer and experimental synth maestro Giombini put up this track sometime in the early 1980s as a promo for the Commodore 64. I wonder if this video somehow inspired the seminal film, Weird Science?
SCHEMATIC: Cuts from Giombini's landmark 1981 LP Astromusic Synthesizer...
Jack Burton once advised: "You never know when you may need to call upon the vocal synthesis wizardry of the Speak & Spell." Disappointingly limited vocabulary aside, here is a web emulator for use on those occasions where nothing else will quite do the trick.
Moroder is the undisputed progenitor of Italo. The uncanny resemblance to SNL's Father Guido Sarducci notwithstanding, Moroder is a synth god. More machine than man, Moroder is to Italy as Kraftwerk is to Germany.
Although Moroder made some Taleggio over the years, From Here to Eternity is an early Italo masterpiece. First published as an LP in 1977 on US-based Casablanca Records, near mint copies of this album are still widely available for about $20. Synthspotters love this video...
SCHEMATIC: Some Moroder TV appearances, a Casablanca Records promo video, more details...
Moroder's discography is longer than the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among other massive hits, Moroder was behind Donna Summer's 1977 smash, I Feel Love.
He also did the theme song forthe crazy-ass movie Midnight Express in 1978. Below is a classic German TV show (check out those mics!) introducing Moroder and his oscar-winning track, The Chase, which is 13 minutes of mind-warping synthesizer amazingness. In this all-too-brief clip, Moroder goes from laying it down in German to working a Minimoog in an ultra-rare LIVE performance.
Here is the original 8-minute 45RPM version of the track. I can't seem to find the 12" version, so will upload mine.
Here is the Casablanca Records promo where Moroder demonstrates his vocoder skills.
Moroder produced everyone and everything in the 1980s. Beyond rescoring the 1920s Fritz Lang film Metropolis, he was responsible for Top Gun (along with German protégé Harold Faltermeyer), Blondie's Call Me, Irene Cara's What a Feelin' LP which included Romance '83 (and Flashdance), The Neverending Story and so forth.
This is far, far out, man.
Kyle Evans' digeridoo-synthesizer hybrid could single-handedly create sound effects for every sci-fi vehicle and spaceship ever imagined.
