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I am looking for more synth music that is not terribly dated. Seems that the best way for that is for it to be well made enough so even played on a kazoo it would still be nice.

Hard to thing of a better artist than Vangelis for that:


Who else made stuff that compares to Vangelis?

Not really looking for songs like Fascination by the Human League, though it is a great song. More like songs like One of Submarines by Thomas Dolby:


any other suggestions?
 
okay your second video has lyrics so i assume you're Ok with more structurally classic 'music'.

check out some of these bands (though a warning, a lot of these technically fall into EBM - i don't know precisely what you consider synth music or if you're exclusively looking for that late 70s early 80s kind of cheesy synth sound):
apoptygma berzerk
vnv nation
project pitchfork
rotersand
seasbound
edge of dawn
covenant
switchblade symphony
mephisto walz
neuroticfish

if you like any of that i have a metric crapton more suggestions like it.
 
I will throw in God is an Astronaut. I have no idea if that falls into your category because they are contemporary, but they are instrumental based and heavy on synth. Their albums are typical focused on a few melodies and there is decent amount of repetition, but I like listening to it.
 
I have a CD called Lisztronic by Jeffery Reid Baker. Franz Liszt music on synth. Can't get much more old school then that.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
I will throw in God is an Astronaut. I have no idea if that falls into your category because they are contemporary, but they are instrumental based and heavy on synth. Their albums are typical focused on a few melodies and there is decent amount of repetition, but I like listening to it.
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It sounds nice, but not the style I am looking for in my OCD synth seeking state.

But I found this album that is more retro:



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seyorni said:
This is old school x2.
Synthesizer -- 1960's Moog. Composition: Bach, >300 years old.
Dated? -- not! Classical -- Baroque, even. ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpznlxMW2_M
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Well there is always this music:

 
I'm surprised nobody has linked this yet, but...

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LEWkwvaNcs[/YOUTUBE]
 
hmmm, to me Tubular Bells is more on the angle of multi-tracking and using electric pianos and maybe hammonds that have been tweaked.

Mike Oldfield plays: Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond B3 and Lowrey organs, flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano, mandolin, piano, percussion, "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord", timpani, vocals, plus tubular bells.
 
How has Kraftwerk not been mentioned ?

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
I'll be honest, I hated most pop music from the 1980s when I was a teenager, which is why I mostly listened to underground metal back then (thrash metal, speed metal, death metal, etc.), but for some reason, the song Steamworks from The Presets makes me grin from ear to ear.
 
Holy Crap, I had no idea that was from Simple Minds. I had it on a mixed tape that someone gave me from someone else's collection.



Yeah many of the mainline synth bands of the time and earlier have songs like that or long stretches in their vocal songs of just instruments.

Kind of like the Alan Parsons Project with Sirius as intro for Eye in the Sky

 
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