Jan Hammer "Beyond The Mind's Eye"

 
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Jan Hammer "Beyond The Mind's Eye"

 ·  Posted: 06.02.2007 - 19:16  ·  #1
For me, Beyond the Mind's Eye is as good as EM gets. It's probably in my top 25 of all time. Some of the tracks are so good it's ridiculous. The album may be more of a "synth-jazz fusion" sound, but it's so darn catchy and full of great hooks that who cares? It's much more consistently listenable than the James Reynolds soundtrack to the first Mind's Eye video and don't even get me started on Thomas Dolby's wretched third soundtrack! :P

Hammer's next CD, Drive, has some good tracks on it, but is definitely closer to his work with Jeff Beck and also has much more of a jazz sound to it. Still, at least 2 or 3 tracks are worth it.

Wish he was still recording and releasing this kind of music..he isn't, is he?
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 ·  Posted: 06.02.2007 - 21:13  ·  #2
Beyond The Mind's Eye is good, I play my tape dub (!) from time to time. I agree that it's better than Drive from 1994. Hammer has not released any new music since Drive, but a few years ago a 2CD of Miami Vice music hit the market. It's long out of print though. Last year Hammer scored the Cocaine Cowboys documentary film.

Of course, I think his Escape From Television (1987) and Snapshots (1989) albums are even better than Beyond.
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 ·  Posted: 06.02.2007 - 21:17  ·  #3
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Beyond The Mind's Eye is good, I play my tape dub (!) from time to time. I agree that it's better than Drive from 1994. Hammer has not released any new music since Drive, but a few years ago a 2CD of Miami Vice music hit the market. It's long out of print though. Last year Hammer scored the Cocaine Cowboys documentary film.

Of course, I think his Escape From Television (1987) and Snapshots (1989) albums are even better than Beyond.


http://www.deepdiscountcd.com/…8325404413
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 ·  Posted: 06.02.2007 - 21:39  ·  #4
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Beyond The Mind's Eye is good, I play my tape dub (!) from time to time. I agree that it's better than Drive from 1994. Hammer has not released any new music since Drive, but a few years ago a 2CD of Miami Vice music hit the market. It's long out of print though. Last year Hammer scored the Cocaine Cowboys documentary film.

Of course, I think his Escape From Television (1987) and Snapshots (1989) albums are even better than Beyond.


http://www.deepdiscountcd.com/…8325404413


This is just the single-disc version. The 2CD goes for around $225 at the moment...
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 ·  Posted: 07.02.2007 - 11:23  ·  #5
Thought the minds eye video was very good as well as the soundtrack i also have snapshots and the miami vice albums,never got around to getting drive but i do like his work and hopefully he will release more synth albums eventualy.
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 ·  Posted: 07.02.2007 - 12:05  ·  #6
Besides that it's the best example of what you can do with a Korg Wavestation
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 ·  Posted: 10.02.2007 - 06:36  ·  #7
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Besides that it's the best example of what you can do with a Korg Wavestation


Yes as the proud owner of 2 wavestations there are plenty of sounds i recognise on that album but as he was endorsing that synth for Korg at the time its not suprising.
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