From fhughes@demon.co.uk Wed Oct 04 09:28:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!fhughes From: fhughes@demon.co.uk (Freya Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Oct04.092857.7718@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 09:28:57 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 The instrumental B-side of 'Midnight Animal' is one of the most underrated synth tracks of the decade. Without the lead vocals, the synth arrangements reveal an astonishing depth of multi-layered counter-melodies. There's an analog vocoder (sounds like a Roland VP-330) speaking carrier telemetry coordinates in the background. Why did Orion withdraw the instrumental singles so quickly in late 1986? -- Freya Hughes -- Demon Internet Services UK "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From tstewart@panix.com Fri Oct 06 06:19:57 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!tstewart From: tstewart@panix.com (Thiago Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Observation: Deleted B-sides & instrumental dubs - 'Midnight Animal' analysis Message-ID: <1995Oct06.061957.3273@panix.com> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 06:19:57 GMT References: <1995Oct04.092857.7718@demon.co.uk> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1995Oct04.092857.7718@demon.co.uk>, fhughes@demon.co.uk (Freya Hughes) writes: > The instrumental B-side of 'Midnight Animal' is one of the most underrated synth tracks of the decade. > Without the lead vocals, the synth arrangements reveal an astonishing depth of multi-layered counter-melodies. I've been looking for that promo 12-inch for four years. Please upload it as a 16-bit WAV file! Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Thiago Stewart Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.