It's interesting to see that a lot of people's early encounters with electronic sound involved people like Jarre or Tangerine Dream - for me (and this will sound a bit odd) it was the main theme from Ghostbusters! I know it's not strictly electronic but it had a synth sound in it, and the video featured the Ghostbusters firing their laser-ray things, and I guess I had a bit of a synesthesia experience - the look of the lasers meshed with the sound of the synths in my head, and so from then (I was 9 at the time) I was a sucker for anything with noises that sounded like lasers. And because it was 1984 I was able to catch some of the mainstream manifestations of electro (I had a "Body Rap", for example) before the mid-1980s began in earnest and laser noises became things both of the past and the future, kicked out of the present by electric guitars and Stock Aitken & Waterman's drum machines.
When I was a bit older I was into the "hardcore" scene, but the science-fiction side of my personality wanted to hear electronic music that was less visceral and more visionary, less banging and more funky, and when I first heard "Pacific 707" I was sold. Since then I've had three other tracks strike the motherlode and essentially redefine the way I listen to electronic music, these being The Orb's "Evergrowing Pulsating Brain..." (I was quite the UK "idm" kid in the early 1990s), The Martian's "Visual Contact" and Quadrant "Quadrant Dub". I'm not sure if many other 313ers would identify with this, but I've always been heavily into science fiction ideas and concepts, and since I was young I thought that sci-fi should really be more than just a literary genre; rather, a complete culture, with its own musical heritage among other things. And I always thought, and still do think, that techno music is science fiction music, no matter how many orchestral scores Hollywood stick onto sci-fi films. Brendan Legal Disclaimer This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message that arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version. This message is provided for informational purposes only. our website at: http://www.widelearning.com Wide Learning is a trading name of Wide Multimedia Ltd Registered office: 33-41 Dallington Street, London EC1V 0BB Company number: 3339664 VAT number: 690 8399 83 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
