Ladronn primarily listens to instrumental music and is responsible for most of the recommendations here. If you think Vangelis is merely the composer of the music for films such as Chariots of Fire or Blade Runner, you might like to sample some of the work we have listed here. Along with artists like Kitaro, Jean Michel Jarre and, that name again, Eno, he is producing work of incredible quality and timelessness which I'm sure will one day be regarded as Classical. We threw in the Best of ELO because we're both children of the seventies. Joe Casey would probably want some Springsteen listed here, but, hey, we built him his own site.
L'Apocalypse Des Animaux
"I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise." — Vangelis on Vangelis
"The magic of the movies ended in the forties, perhaps the fifties; today's movies are an industrial product, a mixture of ingredients." — Vangelis on movies.
"In four years time from now when the internet will be like television, it will gain in terms of television and broadcast but it will lose in terms of the poetic and the dream attached to it; the feeling of being in contact with people from the other side of the planet. How marvellous to be able to feel that now." — Jean Michel Jarre on the Internet
"Like Roman Polanski, he has talent and the ability to tell a story well -- and his films are very durable. Blade Runner for example still stands up today, it's not just another science fiction film, there's something special about it." — Vangelis on Ridley Scott
"We want people to enjoy our music, not our faces. The name comes from the fact that our music originated from the heart of Africa, and that we love the environment." — Deep Forest on Deep Forest
"That's like saying: you travel with airplanes, don't you miss the bike? They are in fact two machines, one more sophisticated than the other, but both are exactly the same. If I want to I can play piano, guitar, drums, but it's easier to have them combined in one single machine. It's up to you not be overwhelmed by them. I'm not in love with work, it's just that Ican't distinguish life from music. They have always been the same thing for me." — Vangelis, when asked if he misses the pure sound of the guitar
"ELO wasn't an overnight thing. The fourth album suddenly went gold in America, that was the one with all the big strings on. I was looking to try and make a bigger sound. I'd been busy trying to track this one violin and cello for hours, to make it sound like an orchestra, and so I said, Fuck it, let's have an orchestra. It was pretty ambitious thing - Eldorado it was called - and it was almost impossible to play on stage, so what happened was, for intros and stuff, to pretend there was a big sound I used to use tapes, like Beethoven's 5th, and then it would just be the group again.
You needed something because it had this grandiose name, the Orchestra, and really it was just this group with a cello in it." — Jeff Lynne
"Music is a powerful medium that can have positive or negative results. It depends on the man as to how he will use it. The responsibility is ours." — Vangelis on music
"All I want to express with my music is my feelings. I think it's the purpose of music, to suggest images, landscapes, love, hate, fury. It is the responsibility of the artist to bring out the marvellous, strong feelings that you have inside." — Mike Oldfield on Music
"I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way." — Enya on Enya
