vangelis epitome of incomprehensibility Antarctica_music, Chariots of Fire soundtrack, etc. The person behind these died recently, sad to say. But good work done, I think. His music didn't sound quite like anyone else's: on paper, you could say that Stockhausen was similar for mixing electronic and classical, but his stuff was more consciously avant-garde and dissonant (if also playful at times, re the Helicopter String Quartet). And he wasn't really like the people making electronic trance music, because it did seem more in the classical idiom than the popular one. (That said, there are plenty of people doing sound sampling stuff, it's not all slowed-down vaporwave or poppish EDM, not that those aren't valid forms of musical expression! The e_o_i is not here to snub stuff for being either too popular or too experimental, although she might like and dislike things for arbitrary reasons and then go off on tangents.) 220601 ... raze i can't listen to any piece of the soundtrack he crafted for "blade runner" without playing some half-remembered fragment of the film back in my head. those songs are such a foundational part of the world the movie creates. vivid as the imagery is in its own right, none of it would be nearly as powerful without the haunting melodies that help to give it heft and shape. 220601 ... tender_square [i don't know how i missed this blathe, but the "bob's burgers" two-part finale that just aired uses "blade runner" as the basis for tina's erotic fan-fiction teenage revenge story after she tries to assert her individuality by wearing a punny shirt about horses and gets made fun of by classmates.] 220605 what's it to you? who go blather from