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OK, this is going to be virtually impossible...

I'm trying to find a piece of music. I heard it as a background piece in a programme with Richard Hammond "Should I Worry about... Drinking." The trouble is I don't have any audio of the clip itself, so it's not as if I can just play it to people and they can identify it.

It's an electronic ambient piece, possibly French (since he was in France at the time). I'm pretty sure it's not Jean-Michel Jarre, since I know most of his work. I thought it might possibly be Eno or Pink Floyd but I've gone through the stuff of theirs that I know and can't match it. The thing is, it sounded really familiar -- like maybe something from Tubular Bells, but again, I listened to TB 1, 2 and 3 again and couldn't match it (though one track is a bit similar).

I also tried searching for the programme online; I found a possible torrent with it, but I can't use those anymore since my IP address was identified as being a filthy file sharer and I received a cease and desist letter... I couldn't find it on you tube either.

Anyone have any ideas how I might go about this? I guess the only way is to hope the programme is repeated again and record it, but that might not be for years, if ever!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424723/episodes#season-1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424723/episodes#season-2

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0699949/fullcredits#cast

I found my way through part of it but I'm not registered. Thought maybe something in there might spark something else for you?

the TV show is now running on "DAVE" which i guess is one of your UK channels.

doubt I helped much.. but maybe it'll spark something

Yep, it was the repeat on Dave that I saw the other day. Still, seeing as Dave is mostly a repeats channel anyway, I guess they will repeat it again at some point.

The thing is, I'm really sure it's a really famous piece of music. I just can't place it. It's driving me bonkers!

Did it sound familiar like an original, or like a cover/dance-y thing using some original music?

Perhaps if you looked for mash ups of pink ffloyd etc you might get some results, or smilarly some reixes


I remember an old jeans advert had a song thta sounded like Nine Inch Nails, but could not find the sng in thei rcatelgoue. Turned out it was a remix the had done of a song! Drove me mad for years!

I'm sure it's from a film soundtrack, possibly something from the 70s. No, I don't think it was a remix, it sounded old and analogue-y -- if that's even a word!

I'll download the torrent for you and send you the file if you think that'll help, as long as it's not like, a gigabyte.

Thanks for the offer, however it seems that there are no seeds as it was uploaded over a year ago and is hardly popular. It's ok, it can wait, I'll probably hear it again when I least expect it.

Actually, I can still hear it in my head, and it's giving me a sense of some sort of ethereal ambient version of Shine on you Crazy Diamond, only as if played by Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre in a collective orgy of 70s Moogs, Arps and mellotrons.

Well, at least the first four notes sound the same anyway.

Hum it,record it and upload the file. Maybe we won't recognize the song but it will make a great monster sound.

You don't mean that, hm?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1llNSdf9cl4
no ... you don't (is french!!!)

There weren' that much 'famous' pure instrumental pieces with that equipment.
And you already named the most important musicians.
Rick Wakeman did something on his own, but nothing 'famous', also Klaus Schulze (no you don't mean Body Love too..),
Alan Parson's Raven if with some lyrics. Kraftwerk's Autobahn is too long - rest of them was crap imho.
Vangelis, Janni...
I'll continue to think about...

edit: oh dammit - searching for more mellotron-artists, i found a whole web page with free vst-plugins (virtual instruments) - maybe i'm lost for some days...

Zyx wrote:Hum it,record it and upload the file. Maybe we won't recognize the song but it will make a great monster sound.

I agree. I had the same (and the best) solution in my mind. I'm looking forward to hearing it.

I can't. It's gone from my head. Now all I can hear in this crazy old head of mine is Shine on You Crazy Diamond and it definitely ain't that...

Gambit37 wrote:I can't. It's gone from my head. Now all I can hear in this crazy old head of mine is Shine on You Crazy Diamond and it definitely ain't that...

But whatever it was, it can't be better than Shine On, can it? Best song ever by the best band ever.

Yep, gotta agree with you there! In fact, I shall lsiten to it right now!

... and they lived happily ever after...

Wish you were here is a great album from start to finish!

beowuuf wrote:Wish you were here is a great album from start to finish!

The best, if you ask me. 44 minutes and 19 seconds of pure genius! No wonder both Dave and Rick (still sad over his death ) called it their favourite Floyd album.

You tell 'em Trant!

Moon Child by M83 has been used on Top Gear...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHwftkkLy34

Hey, that's a good track. Definitely not it though. The track I'm looking has no percussion, and no choirs.

Speaking of dinosaurs, here are missing percussion and choirs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbxswV2a ... re=related
Too bad 'Afterglow' ended that great time.

And hey - youtube is much too slow for such a 'tutorial'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMyCQUSgvfo&NR=1
(though, thumbs up for doin' that! - I couldn't)

Listened to a lot of good old stuff to find something that could match the given information,
but still not successful.

Surfing around, i found lots of interesting information i didn't knew:
i.e. the soundtrack of the movie Ladyhawke (M.Pfeiffer,R.Hauer) was made by Alan Parson. Found no sample of it - a chance?

Gambit - mellotron but no choirs? It had flute (famous on strawberry fields of the beatles), strings and choir only, or?

When I mentioned mellotron, I wasn't being specific, it was just a general observation. I don't know what instruments are used.

I might have to investigate Alan Parsons a bit more; the instrumental works of the APP certainly sound a bit similar to this tune I can't find...

damn you Gambit, you trapped me into the tube now - so much I passed the last decades...!
Even Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream where back on stage in the last year.
And then - listen to that one, wonder about comments...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FfaX13S ... re=related
Another one of them put some showers on my neck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ3NZMb3 ... re=related
I'm too sensible for fantasy stuff...

Sorry, but those are terrible! Gregorian versions of one of the best prog-rock songs ever written, and a classic stomping Euro pop track? Not for me!

Tststs - taste - the most mysterious thing of all...

Yes, taste is a funny thing

omfg ! they totally screwed Voyage, voyage and that awful reverb girl voice...

Heh he, I hadn't heard the original for years so just found it on last.fm -- that was a stonking* Euro pop song from back in the day!



*Stonking: British slang meaning "really rather good, what, faw faw, pip pip, dontcha know!"

hahaha