Synergy - Audion (Electronic Compositions For The Post Modern Age) (1981)Tracklist:
1. Orbit Five
2. Revolt At L-5
3. Terminal Hotel
4. Electric Blue
5. Ancestors
6. After The Earthquake
7. Falcons And Eagles
8. Flight Of The Looking Glass
9. Shibolet
10. An End To History
As Synergy, Larry Fast composed, recorded, and released Audion on Passport Records as a cassette and vinyl LP in 1981. It had a limited release as a CD in 1986. For digital remastering in 1998, Fast used the original tapes that preceded the original release. The quality of this reissue (1998) is superb. The quality of the music is also superb. This legendary e-musician has always been on the cutting edge of technology and artistry. His soundscape is full of dense, deep, dark, and deft sequences. To assure that there are no mistaken identities, Fast adds more sequences. To give the disc its artistic integrity, he adds some synth riffs with rock & roll textures and timbres. There are no guitars. For e-music fans, this disc is essential because of its techniques and historical importance. It will appeal to fans of Dweller at the Threshold, Radio Massacre International, Kubusschnitt, Jean Michel Jarre, and Tangerine Dream. Prog rock fans will also find it important.
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Stormbringer - Stormbringer (1984)Tracklist:
1. Feels Like The Real Thing
2. Searchin'
3. Rock'n'Roll Paradise
4. Tear In Your Eyes
5. Caught Me By Surprise
6. Lady Of The Sky
7. Prelude
8. Susi
9. Untitled
Stormbringer were a band hailing from Switzerland. The most remarkable thing about this band is their guitar player Angi Schiliro who is also known for his work with Paganini, Kingdom Come and Zero. What you will find here is some pretty decent melodic hard rock, better than many other AOR/hard rock bands of that time.
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Le Roux - Up (1980)Tracklist:
1. Let Me Be Your Fantasy
2. Get It Right The First Time
3. Mystery
4. Roll Away The Stone
5. It Could Be The Fever
6. I Know Trouble When I See It
7. Waiting For Your Love
8. Crying Inside
9. I Won't Be Staying
LE ROUX is a stylish melodic Rock outfit hailing from Baton Rouge, Louisana. The band's roots actually lay in the antecedent JEFF POLLARD BAND, this outfit comprising guitarists Tony Haselden and Bobby Campos, keyboard player Rod Roddy, drummer David Peters and bassist Leon Medica, a veteran of POTLIQUOR.
Going for a more Funky, Countryfied route the band took the LE ROUX title in 1976, according to a 1978 Capitol Records press release, to illustrate this blend of styles with a suitable allegory in a "Cajun French term for the thick and hearty gravy base that's used to make a gumbo". Under their guise as the JEFF POLLARD BAND, not only did the musicians build up a strong US following on the touring circuit, but due to an arrangement with the US State Department, the group also got to perform concerts in Africa. They had switched the band title to LOUISIANA'S LE ROUX, due to the existence of a LE ROUX gigging in San Francisco at the time. Producer Leon Medica scored the band a contract with Capitol Records and, still branded LOUISANA'S LE ROUX proceeded to score a significant impact with the first two albums, 1978's 'Louisiana's Le Roux', which featured guitarist Jim Odom, and 1979's 'Keep The Fire Burnin', this latter effort incorporating saxophone and trumpet.
Things changed dramatically for the recording of 1980's Jai Winding produced 'Up'. LE ROUX, having dropped the LOUISIANA prefix, came up with a powerful Melodic Rock sound that instantly won the group a host of admirers abroad upon the album's arrival into Europe on import. (Garry Sharpe-Young, Rockdetector)Download here
