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 ·  Posted: 07.12.2007 - 06:45  ·  #1
Does anyone else here enjoy some of his music? His music has a more classical/orchestral/avant-garde sound than many New Age musicians who have a prog background.

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Re: Serge Blenner

 ·  Posted: 07.12.2007 - 07:53  ·  #2
I love his early records - everything up to Les Architectes du Temps. Those are quite different to his later stuff though (though haven't heard all that much since then I have to say).
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 ·  Posted: 11.12.2007 - 23:37  ·  #3
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I love his early records - everything up to Les Architectes du Temps. Those are quite different to his later stuff though (though haven't heard all that much since then I have to say).


I'll have to listen to more of his older music. I've heard his Fracture Interne album. It is quite different from a lot of his later stuff. That album is more of an album of bare boned "poppy" dittys. In a way it reminds me a bit of a stripped down "Dazzle Ships"? Not New Age, maybe I'd call it minimalist synthpop?
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Re: Serge Blenner

 ·  Posted: 12.12.2007 - 00:40  ·  #4
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 ·  Posted: 12.12.2007 - 05:17  ·  #5
Yes, his early/mid 80's albums (especially La Dimension Prochaine) had a very electro-pop feel (though without vocals of course). And as Stephen points out, much use of PPG sounds (which sound great to me). The earlier ones (La Vogue, Magazin Frivole) are much more raw analog sounding.
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 ·  Posted: 17.12.2007 - 06:18  ·  #6
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Yes, his early/mid 80's albums (especially La Dimension Prochaine) had a very electro-pop feel (though without vocals of course). And as Stephen points out, much use of PPG sounds (which sound great to me). The earlier ones (La Vogue, Magazin Frivole) are much more raw analog sounding.


I did hear much "electro-pop" on his La Dimension Prochaine album. It has it melodic moments and it is a bit "popp". Sort of in the same way some of Jarre's albums are "new age pop" But that's just what I hear.

I'll be diggin' deeper for the early stuff.
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 ·  Posted: 17.12.2007 - 12:09  ·  #7
I think Serge is entirely out of place in the "New Age" bin... unfortunately that was what his music was billed as in the 1980s...

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 ·  Posted: 19.12.2007 - 01:18  ·  #8
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I think Serge is entirely out of place in the "New Age" bin... unfortunately that was what his music was billed as in the 1980s...

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Unfortunately? Do you take it as some sort of an insult that his music is known as New Age? Why? Does such a label shame it (the music)?
Or maybe you don't want to think you like New Age music?

I believe some should really change their view of what New Age music means and is.

I believe Serge is very comfortable calling his music New Age. I guess he doesn't have the "anti-na" ego.
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