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Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: April 07 2003, 11:21 I wonder if this is of interest to anyone but me... Back in the early 80s, there circulated an obviously rather popular music demo on the Commodore C-64, called 'Synth Sample'. It contained the following tracks: 1. Theme from 'Stationary Ark' 2. 'Saturdays in Silezia' 3. 'Spiral' excerpt (Vangelis) 4. 'Tubular Bells' (Oldfield) 5. Closing theme from 'Magic Shadows' 6. Theme from 'Clockwork Orange' (Carlos) 7. 'Oxygene 2' (Jarre) 8. 'Canon' (Pachelbel) 9. 'Enola Gay' (OMD) I actually managed to find it on the internet. And though I have to say that in retrospect the Tubular Bells theme is done really crappy (though some others, like the Jarre one, are really good), I was very excited with this collection of 'strange' tunes at the time (bear in mind that I was really young then), and I'm pretty certain that it helped me embrace the music when, years later, I had my first 'real' encounter with Mike's music (which was Amarok, not exactly the easiest one to get into, or so I'm told). Anyway, this is where I first came into contact with the names 'Mike Oldfield' and 'Tubular Bells'. Wonder if anyone remembers that demo. If not, perhaps you'll tell me about your first encounter with Mike. Back to top

YR-TGM Unregistered Posted: April 07 2003, 14:45 Interesting! My first encounter with Mike's music was the Synth Sample too! It was in the 80s so I don't remember much of it... my favourites were Stationary Ark (managed to d/l it later from the internet) and Johann Pachelbel's Canon. I didn't know much about Mike at that time (and didn't care either). A closest 'encounter' was in 1998 when I bought the Best of Elements cassette. I liked the music of JMJ and Vangelis; and once when I was buying some Vangelis cd, the man in the shop recommended Oldfield (I don't know why people often compare Vangelis with Oldfield, IMHO they are very different). So I bought Best of Elements and after hearing excerpts like Sentinel, Incantations4 and Amarok, I thought to check out other albums too. Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: April 07 2003, 15:44 Cool! Have you got any idea what are 'Stationary Ark', 'Saturdays In Silezia' and 'Magic Shadows'? Back to top

Tubular Miles Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: April 2003 Posted: April 07 2003, 15:54 My mom Bought Pure Moods One day, And about 6 or 5 years later, I picked it out of the CD case. And I played it Through my Computer, It was So Old It Kept Messing up. Then I was like, I wanna buy a Mike Oldfield CD with my Disco Aisha! So I bought it. Back to top

YR-TGM Unregistered Posted: April 08 2003, 02:45 In replay to Holger... Stationary Ark - Originally the title of a book by Geralr Durrell; in the early 1980s there was a nature show about animals on TV with the same title and this was a theme from that show. The author of Synth Sample just taped it off the TV and even him didn't know if it was from some album or not. Saturdays in Silesia - this was a pop song from the early 1980s by the band Rational Youth (note that it was misspelled in Synth Sample! It should be Silesia and not Silezia). You will likely find the lyrics on the net and maybe mp3 with some d/l software. Magic Shadows - the closing theme from some half-hour show of old movies from TV Ontario. Don't know if it was from some album or not (see the remark at Stationary Ark). Sorry for off topic, continue with the discussion... Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: April 08 2003, 03:55 Wow, thanks YR-TGM! Back to top

Sysiyo Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: April 08 2003, 06:32 My first encounter with Mike was little over a year ago. I was in the local Free Record Shop, looking for new Bowie CD's, and as I was walking out I saw an album called "QE2" in the sale shelf. I had been dreaming of an ocean liner -themed album for quite some time, and then I saw an album named after a liner! I was estatic... but I wasn't quite sure if the title would guarantee it was a good album, particularly since I had never heard of the guy who had made the album. I gathered up my courage and walked to the place where you can test listen to the records, and gave the album a try. I loved it from the first notes of Taurus 1 till the end of Molly. Needless to say, I bought it. The best 11€ I ever spent. Back to top

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