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RetroMan
5-01-00, 12:46 PM
I have been looking for a song from my childhood for over fifteen years. It was on the TV a lot around the same time Max Headroom had his music video show , I think that's where I saw it

It's an instramental, and that's what makes it hard to explain - I will try and explain the film clip.

What I remember is like a warehouse with all this bio-mech machinery moving in time to the beat of the music - very robotic looking.
just a lot of shiny steel machines with pistons and cables moving in time.
The song goes quiet in the middle and some kids sneak into the warehouse and hide in a big basket - the warehouse shuts down, and all the lights go off - when everyone has left, all the kids bust out of the basket and turn everything back on - the machines start up and so does the beat of the music just as before.

Here is the description of the music - it's quite technical, but it's the only way I can expain it without lyrics:
The whole song is based around a 'pulsing' male voice put though a vocoder, with a sample of another voice doing the melody over the top - in the bridge section, the pulsing male voice stops and it's just a quiet synth sound, without a beat and you hear a sound of kids calling out from a distance - then eveything starts up again in the same beat and tune as it was before right though to the end of the song.

I don't think I've dreamed all this up because the tune is so clear in my head, I think it has written itself into my aural DNA
some of the description may be wrong though - it has been while after all

I sure hope someone can help me - I will be very gratefull http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif someone told me it could be Jean Michael Jarre but had no idea of he title!!?!!



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Sal Collaziano
5-01-00, 07:56 PM
Hmm. You may have to get a synth or something and try to duplicate the sound for us. Is there any way you can do that? Through some program or something maybe? Atleast ONE of us must know the song - we just can't put it together without sound. Who knows.. Maybe somebody will!

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Sal Collaziano

RetroMan
5-01-00, 10:06 PM
Oh that's what I will have to do as a final resort - it will be difficult because the song is made from samples - I have the gear to do it - but to make the samples!??!?
Well, hopefully when I get back from my holiday next month, someone out there might have helped me http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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LivinInThe80s
5-22-00, 07:36 AM
wow...i am totally clueless...doesn't even sound familiar! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/confused.gif

JMJ is a great suggestion! what about Art of Noise?

just another thought. good luck!

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apocalypso
6-04-00, 02:15 AM
>what about Art of Noise?

That was my first thought; second was Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" or something else from his foray out of his 1983 album "Futureshock." I think he had at least two videos at the time.

Peace,

Ann


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RetroMan
6-05-00, 01:12 AM
Oh, thanks Ann & LivinInThe80s,
I have already looked into Art Of Noise as it was a favorite of Max Headroom, but alas, none of them was the song in question.

However, I think we could be onto something with Herbie. I have 'Rock It' on CD and it's not the one, but It's from that era! And herbie liked to use a lot of sampling in his material. Stangly enough, I have been led towards Future Shock before - it just HAS to be the second video! (whatever it's called) It's so rare to get a hold of that album, as Herbie has become a Jazz freak these days.

Thank you so much people http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif YOU ROCK http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/cool.gif

I'm gonna find this thing!!!!!!!!!!!

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Flix
6-05-00, 03:25 AM
Retroman, I think I have a extra copy of Futureshock somewhere in my CD collection. I will try and see if I can find it next weekend. It's yours if I can find it.

-Flixfan

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RetroMan
6-08-00, 03:21 AM
Blimey Flixfan, that would be awesome - see if there is a song on it that matches my description at the start of this topic http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif

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RetroMan
6-14-00, 01:20 AM
Retroman would like to thank everyone who has helped me with this illusive song.
My 15 year search is now over - the song is......Jean Michel Jarre's - "Zoolook"
after all this time I can rest from my weiry journey - thank you everyone!!!! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smile.gif


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LivinInThe80s
6-18-00, 11:49 PM
cool, retroman! i'm happy for you! actually, that whole album is good! back in '84, i worked at a record store where we could borrow records that we wouldn't normally buy in order to broaden our horizons. i taped that one, but didn't even think to dig it out of some box around here to check it out for ya'. i'm glad someone else did. thanks, sal, for this groovy site! http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

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RetroMan
6-20-00, 12:26 PM
Man! it's more than groovy! I had searched and searched and searched and searched for that song! it's funny you used to work in a record store - That where I've been working for the past 4 years! it's the best job in the world - I have the worlds catalog at my finger tips, yet I needed this bulletin board to talk to all the absolutely awesome
people in here! it's DAMN groovy!!!

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Richard
1-17-04, 06:27 PM
probably not this, but here goes. "rock-it" by Herby Hancock.