The music is timeless. I must have listened to it hundreds time, and it hasn't olded since 1983. I mean, music made with synthetizers around early 80's often became terribly dated. Think about Giorgio Moroder, Mike Oldfield, John Carpenter. Their music are strongly rooted in their time, although that fact has little influence on their quality. I'm especially and subjectively thinking to Carpenter, who will always have a place in my heart, and made an invaluable apport to electronic music. But the other two, erh... well they had their qualities too, but it's very very dated. Nice to hear if you want to go decades back.
But Sakamoto music is a powerful exception, as would be Tron by Wendy Carlos, and Blade Runner by Vangelis. Even is the latter is much more descriptive, all of them are richly atmospheric and evocative. The strength of Sakamoto's music, in Furyo, is its suggestive simplicity, near to minimalism, that lets the listener plenty place to his own imagination.
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tomek-1
20 years ago
I agree with every word You said Gregory :) Yes, the immortal atmosphere of 80's is so well included in such a electronic music of those times. I'd also add to that list from my side: Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills, Top Gun themes), Jan Hammer (Miami Vice theme) and fantstic music by Toto and Brian Eno to Lynch's grossly underrated "Dune". I also admire Carpenter's musical language. Although it's mostly minimalistic and might sounds rather amateurish, it's a sure thing like sun on the sky that without this music his films wouldn't be in half as good as they are :)
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