Best synth sound ever

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I do find this rap meets trance thing fascinating. I mean, do rappers/the traditional rap crowd go to trance raves?

I've noticed songs about taking pills on a number of mixtapes I've downloaded this year.
 
luka

luka

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reynolds wrote a piece called b-boys on e in about 2000 that i think was remarkably prescient, at least from memory, as coincedntly i was about to start a thread about this cos its what i want to talk about but i cant find the article. its vanished.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Yeah I think I remember reading Reynolds writing about this. Obviously its hardly a new phenomenon. Its interesting that the trance sound obviously doesn't have the cringe-worthy associations for southern rappers that it has in the UK, for example.


Saw this on Martorialist recently...

This is sidelining from the thread though.
 
owengriffiths

owengriffiths

Owen
Does Wiley's Eskimo count, or is that too bass heavy to be a synth? Listen to the devil mix to hear it at it's best


Joey Beltram's 'My Sound' has an amazing beginning

 
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Ory

warp drive
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it's beyond overused at this point but i gotta give a nod to that classic dub techno stab. in general, the BC boys have come up with some of the best sounds ever.

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some amazing noises in this too. the main riff as well as the detuned metallic grinding thing.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Great thread idea!

I think the late '70s/early '80s were a golden age for great synth sounds, particularly in Britain and particularly in the north of England for some reason. So much great stuff that sits somewhere between post-punk, new wave, synthpop, industrial, EBM and proto-techno. Joy Division/New Order, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan (someone's already beaten me to it with the very song I was gonna post), Human League, Fad Gadget, Portion Control, even a couple of Throbbing Gristle tracks that tend more towards Kraftwerky pop rather than grinding sludge...

some favourites:







Not British, but also awesome:


quality bit of pitch-shifting going on here...

 
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Sectionfive

Sectionfive

bandwagon house
That synth that comes half way through Sine Of The Dub to give it some light.
Sounds a bit like flying cars from the future or something
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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Maybe its more because of the melody than the sound but this never fails to give me a delicious cold chill (well, the first 20 seconds at least). Which wu-tang tune uses this by the way? I can't remember but it works so well, something off Liquid swords maybe?. I think DJ Rashad has a tune that samples it too.

Wicked film too.

 
luka

luka

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im too dumb to answer this. id inevitably nominate something that turn out to be a guitar or a flute. i think funky worm, as mentioned, is sublime but perhaps not a synth?
 
luka

luka

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transeuropeexpress/planet rock...does that count? thats the best isnt it? objectively speaking?
 
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sgn

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The whining synth on this one that enters around 1:40 and then seems to keep rising and rising and rising for most of the track:

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First, the synth that comes in around 0:55, but mostly the high-pitched one that joins it at 3:18:
<iframe src="" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href="">2562-Who are you fooling?</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user9130661">fraxinus sorensen</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Actually I like pretty much all of 2562's synths...they all have this slightly paranoid (much more pronounced in Who Are You Fooling) and alien, yet alluring, quality to them, but I think it's more the way he arranges them than the actual sound itself.

The sound that comes 14 seconds into this:
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The weird acid like synth right at the start:
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N.O.R.E - Nothin (not sure if the sound here is a synth or some sort of string instrument); Illum Sphere - Aftermath; Jimmy Edgar - Rewind Stop That Tape; plus most of the synth sounds used regularly by B.O.C, Anthony Shake Shakir, Dam Funk, Legowelt and Drexciya.

The best synth sound ever though? The 303.
 
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muser

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Still have yet to hear anything quite like this, very clever prod




The weird sort of dives that happen in this (like 0:49) do funny things
 
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