I just broke down in tears when I heard the Memory Moog. It's like time travel to my childhood. Everyone's younger. The grandparents are alive. The neighbors' dog comes to the fence, smiling. I smell grass cut 30+ years ago. Blink. 2016 again. What a trip a few chords of music will elicit.
The MemoryMoog sound is gorgeous. Amazing gear from the giants of synths. Prophet 5 (Dave Smith-RIP), MemoryMoog (Robert Moog-RIP), DMX Drum machine (Tom Oberheim) and the Emulator (Dave Rossum). Tom and Dave are still going strong.
My current Memorymoog and Prophet-5 are not (yet) MIDIfied, so I simply doubled the same part by playing it on both synths. More Memorymoog videos coming soon ;)
I love this! Born in 1956 I followed the evolution of synthesized music from its infancy, and was amazed at how incredibly versatile they could be especially when not striving too closely to emulate real instruments. This song has a wonderful dance-able element, and sounds like the best of 1980s synth pop/disco. Well done!
Although I am now attracted by other genres, listen to this take me back a kid again and not without a little sadness for years that will never return. Thank you.
Beautiful, I wish this music had been more popular in my country. I heard bits of it in movies, and later in Amiga MOD files (which your Emulator orchestra hit especially reminds me of), but never on the radio. Closest thing to Italo I remember hearing on the radio was Kraftwerk's "Tour De France".
Beautiful track. You have done a great job of making this track with synths from the early 80's. A musical journey back to the old days. I listened a lot to Italo at the time. Love watching your videos.
@TheHuskyrescue No, no :-) When I wrote "We played music like this", I meant "we played" the records on the turntables ;-) In 1984 all I had was a piano and a Farfisa organ ;-)
today kids have """"fun"""" with crappy reason stuffs, often doing super crappy "electro" stuffs, which is nothing like the old real electro. my body can't move by itself on modern dance stuffs. no groove at all. italo disco was super fun and great. love your videos, thanks for sharing this world
One's memory might be influenced by that fact. But don't make the mistake of generalising. In many cases, things from the / one's past were _in fact_ better.
you mean ... in countless cases ... it's still in fact better, even if much less music was produced back then, and with a lot more constraints. constraints were by the way a great thing that caused creativity and fantastic things. at this point, music was so great that it's quite safe to generalize. it doesn't mean that nothing is good today, there are good things. and there are fantastic musicians, today. the market changed, the past of music is heavy, peoples changed, the world changed, there's no more money to make in the music industry, majors are ready with no shame to put in front some of the worst "musicians" if they can even be named musicians ... arts are the Mirror of our civilisation : what we have today is showing us our current civilisation.
What I dig most about this is that it's imaginative and organic, something which I highly doubt can be said for most of the "electronic music" that's been made since the latter 90s. Mainstream electronic music and dance music have almost entirely lost their creativity.
JohnsonPadder If I were strictly an electronic instrument user, my "platform" would all but terminate in the mid 90s. As a musician in general, my ambition is to reinject some imagination and creativity into the mainstream.
Just remembered one movie I remember, Flight of the Navigator had one or two songs like this, one of them had a very similar brass sound to your Prophet.
This song is incredible :3... You know, i'm 15 years old musician and I love Italo Disco, but i can't seem to make my songs sound like italo; i mean, I get pretty near, but there's that "something" that is missing.
Eh si, direi veramente ottimo pezzo molto molto italo dance! Bravo, veramente. Ho scoperto il canale da poco, ma penso che me lo controllerò un po' tutto :)
I positively LOVE this style. I am mostly into '93/'94 Italodance, so I am fairly new to this. Are there any tracks or producers that could be recommended in a similar vein?
