arpeggiated riffs in electronic music

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Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on May-25-2006 02:41:

arpeggiated riffs in electronic music

This is one of the first songs i can find with something like this

Wish key - orient express

from 1983

watch how Manlio Cangelli just breaks into that melody lol!

can you guys list any early productions with running melodies like this

Posted by Ishkur on May-25-2006 02:55:

You mean the "galloping synth" arpeggiation technique?

Giorgio Moroder invented it in 1977 with he and Donna Summer's "I Feel Love". It was actually a mistake....synths back then had no polyphony so playing chords was not possible. It was a far more common thing in the electro-boogie/Hi-NRG stuff of Bobby Orlando and Patrick Cowley and the early EBM and latter Belgian New Beat/industrial-dance scenes than it was in italo.

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on May-25-2006 03:01:

i was going to say moroder but moroders seemed to be more simple and more loopy and in 2 beat bars (pardon my terminology if its not correct) instead of 4 beat bars

basically im talking about melodies instead of basslines.. as moroders basslines were basically an outline for most european synth pop and new age disco.

edit:

giorgio moroder - utopia 1977 this would fit i guess any contributions?

Posted by Serp on May-25-2006 03:06:

omg @ that video !

Posted by stevieboy32808 on May-25-2006 03:25:

Arpeggio - Love and Desire [1978]
Risque - The Girls Are Back In Town [1982]
Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme [1979]
Patrick Cowley - (Most of his work)
Giorgio Moroder - (Most of his work)
Donna Summer - (Some of her work)
Easy Going - Fear [1979]
Kano - I'm Ready [1980]
Bobby Orlando - She Has A Way [1982]
Divine - Native Love [1982]
Divine - Shoot Your Shot [1982]
Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive [1979]
Phyllis Nelson - Don't Stop The Train [1981]

Posted by JM on May-25-2006 03:42:

thank God electronic music keeps evolving.

>JM<

Posted by Rainborn on May-25-2006 10:19:

That's a really good song.
So, thanks to you guys who suggested tracks, gonna check it out.

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on May-25-2006 15:58:

quote:
Originally posted by stevieboy32808
Arpeggio - Love and Desire [1978]
Risque - The Girls Are Back In Town [1982]
Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme [1979]
Patrick Cowley - (Most of his work)
Giorgio Moroder - (Most of his work)
Donna Summer - (Some of her work)
Easy Going - Fear [1979]
Kano - I'm Ready [1980]
Bobby Orlando - She Has A Way [1982]
Divine - Native Love [1982]
Divine - Shoot Your Shot [1982]
Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive [1979]
Phyllis Nelson - Don't Stop The Train [1981]

some good suggestions steve.. i knew youd come through

harry thumann - underwater (1978)
telex - pakmow�st (1979)
telex - lakele (1980)
telex - euro vision (1980)

heres some more but from later years

hipnosis - bormaz (1984)
hipnosis - argonauts 1984)
hipnosis - wildland (1984)
den harrow - future brain (1985)
brand image - love in a summer night (1985)
radiorama - vampires (1986)
proxyon - space hopper (1987)
rose - mister right (1988)

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on May-26-2006 18:18:

lime - guilty (1983)
albert one - turbo diesel (1984)

Posted by Glade776 on May-26-2006 19:00:

Hot Streak - Body Work (1983)
Strafe - Set It Off (1984)

Posted by stevieboy32808 on May-26-2006 19:47:

Of course, how could I forget Lime! They have a lot of tracks with that type of sound. By the way nice call on the Harry Thumann track. There�s also another famous song by Telex that you missed:

Telex � Moskow Diskow (1979)
O.T. Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix) (1994)
System F � Out Of The Blue (1999)
Yaz � Don�t Go (1982)
Cern � The Message (2003)
Jaia � Electric Sunrise (2003)
Jase From Outta Space � Do What You Want (Max Graham Third Street Remix) (2004)
Katcha � Touched By God (1999)

I�ve made samples of the tracks above, please listen to them: link

Posted by Nrg2Nfinit on May-26-2006 21:03:

quote:
Originally posted by stevieboy32808
Of course, how could I forget Lime! They have a lot of tracks with that type of sound. By the way nice call on the Harry Thumann track. There�s also another famous song by Telex that you missed:

Telex � Moskow Diskow (1979)
O.T. Quartet - Hold That Sucker Down (Builds Like A Skyscraper Mix) (1994)
System F � Out Of The Blue (1999)
Yaz � Don�t Go (1982)
Cern � The Message (2003)
Jaia � Electric Sunrise (2003)
Jase From Outta Space � Do What You Want (Max Graham Third Street Remix) (2004)
Katcha � Touched By God (1999)

I�ve made samples of the tracks above, please listen to them: link

of course i didnt forget about telex i didnt mention them because they use the standard moroder bassline and its not really an arpgegiated melody.

Yazoo i did forget however

lime is a great french canadian disco artist by the name of denis lepage who was probably one of the most influencial canadian producers in the electronic music scene