[milliondollars]

cheers to everybody. i have mentioned doing this a while ago and i try to start now.

as a deep sea diver with the zodica sign being aquarius, it is almost natural that i became obsessed with subaquatic music of all kinds.

the aim of this thread is to present as many stuff as possible with a clear focus on library music. besides library there are many other records that need to be mentioned. i have reorganized my collection and will present the stuff in no particular order. i hope somebody will enjoy this thread and learn something new about underwater records.

please feel free to submit or comment without insulting me, haha!

first record i want to start with is on the beloved Bruton Music label. it contains a small suite like composition at the end of the B-side by a quite unknown composer. the music sounds like the score to a short movie. lovely!

https://www.discogs.com/John-Scott-Andr ... se/2915104

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[Bezulsqy]

Milliondollars, looking forward to how this thread evolves.
I have no knowledge about underwater sounding records. Can you tell me more about why this is a thing? Origins? What makes a track a subaquatic track?
For instance, listening to the youtube clip on the discogs link you posted I hear something I do like hearing, but cannot link it to underwater sensations.


I do get more bubbling sensations from the Fabio Fabor Aquarium release:


Love to be submerged with subaquatic knowledge!

[Dollarhyde]

Great thread,

There are some great underwater related tracks in the CAM library series.
I'm at work but I have CML 010

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Magico-S ... se/3089170

And there also some diving related tracks on CML 028,

http://www.discogs.com/Daniele-Patucchi ... se/7329636

I always like the dark take on the underwater theme

[texasvinyl]

@million can't wait to see all of the underwater stuff you have!!



This Sorgini is a pretty crazy one, the descriptions on the back cover reference underwater scenes and undersea science laboratories. The title translates to "In the boundaries of knowledge"

[Dollarhyde]

@texas,

Wow! Great stuff. I haven't listened to the whole clip bit this sounds much older than 1980. Brilliant music all the same. Funky, jazzy, abstract Giuliano Sorgini could do it all.

[texasvinyl]

Speaking of underwater records... finally joined the cool kids club with one of the Vedette pressings, friend in Rome hooked me up. Agree sounds richer than the repress... Repress sounds a little tinny doing an A/B comparison.

[milliondollars]

@Bezulsqy: tough question, haha! i could really not tell what exactly makes underwater music sound like underwater music. there are certain instruments (vibes for example), and effects (like reverb or blur) being used by a lot of artists. underwater music can be played by orchestras but also by a also you could be performed by a single person controlling some electronic kind of instruments. i would say that underwater usually is quite slow but not all the time. if there is some tension in the music it might be faster.
usually the music is made for underwater television and cinema but in the end it is all about your personal imagination i guess. there is stuff that is not tagged as underwater music that sounds like bubbly as hell and the other way arround if you know what i am trying to say...

@Dollarhyde: got about six underwater related CAM records, will definitely post them once i have time.

@Texasvinyl: i luckily own this crazy and overlooked Sorgini record, if i remember right i have posted it in the library thread a while ago...

[milliondollars]

next Bruton i want to show is probably not well known for underwater cues but it contains three brilliant ones by the famous John Cameron (Submarine, Tropic, Tropic 2). the last titles would not let you expect subaquatic sounds but if you hear these tunes you know what they are about. all in all this is a great record and would make it into my personal Bruton top 10...

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Surviva ... se/3579846

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[milliondollars]

another Bruton i picked for five amazing tunes is made by James Asher. he was very active for Bruton and Studio G in the early 80s and did some great electronic music. the cues are the last five ones one the B side (Submarine, Dark Vibrations, Seaweed Cluster, Seabed, Bubbles) with the title Seabed being my favourite. can be picked up for cheap and the whole LP is great and has a funny cover, too...

https://www.discogs.com/James-Asher-Ele ... se/1998676

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[ScoJo]

Great thread!

Francois de Roubaix was a life-long diver, who sadly drowned aged 36 after only a ten year career in film music. He's one of my all time favourites however, boldly experimenting with electronics and orchestral scoring during that brief time, composing for an incredible range of film and television projects.

This WeMe 2x LP compilation of short film work is a great place to start, and includes a lot of under-watery music...

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[milliondollars]

@disco: it's so great that you mention Francois de Roubaix in here. i have his records and i was planing to post some of the stuff later.

another must have underwater record is Sub-Aquatic Meditation by Panabrite which is a pseudonym of Jurgen Muller, who made another milestone underwater record in the 80s (will post that one later). the Panabrite record is outstanding and it is dedicated to no others than Sven Libaek, Francois de Roubaix and Michel Redolfi who is the biggest pioneer of underwater music for me (will also post later). just reading this dedication to these giants, you know what to expect from this record...

https://www.discogs.com/Panabrite-Sub-A ... se/3341127

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[Mateo Sanboval]

Not sure if you're taking the mick, $1000000, but Panabrite is a synonym of Norm Chambers who "is" Jurgen Muller, an invented persona. The Muller stuff was very much written and recorded in the late 2000s.

[milliondollars]

@Mateo:...and the donkey award is given to......... Million$$$...haha!

it is funny because i have purchased the Jurgen Muller record quite some years ago and read something that must have been a fake interview then. i have purchased the Jurgen Muller record without knowing it is a pseudonym. found the connection on discogs only recently. crazy internet is playing tricks on me, fu**ing up my mind. too much for my me, haha!

Thanks Mateo. now it all makes sense...

[ScoJo]

@million

I hate to be the one to do this to you man, but....

Mateo Sanboval is actually the pseudonym for Nemet Gurdyen, a wildly controversial Turkish billionaire playboy who built an empire from monetising any and all use of the phrase 'tickled pink', which is in turn actually the nom-de-guerre for Sum Kar Wei, a 63 year old Chinese soap mega-star from the 80s (the show was a Cantonese version of The Golden Girls) which in turn is the cover-handle for one retired Scots Guard Corporal-turned infamous Ballymorie Salmon poacher Hamish 'Roddy' Macrooth. Don't feel too bad, we have all been duped!

[sonnydexter]

@million

I hate to be the one to do this to you man, but....

Mateo Sanboval is actually the pseudonym for Nemet Gurdyen, a wildly controversial Turkish billionaire playboy who built an empire from monetising any and all use of the phrase 'tickled pink', which is in turn actually the nom-de-guerre for Sum Kar Wei, a 63 year old Chinese soap mega-star from the 80s (the show was a Cantonese version of The Golden Girls) which in turn is the cover-handle for one retired Scots Guard Corporal-turned infamous Ballymorie Salmon poacher Hamish 'Roddy' Macrooth. Don't feel too bad, we have all been duped!

that is the best thing I've read in ages, haha .....absolutely knocked me off my chair! made my weekend @ScoJo :)

[Mateo Sanboval]

@$1000000 - Happens to the best of us. In truth, I wasn't sure if you were messing about yourself!

@ScoJo - That paragraph could pass for the sixth installment of Hitchhiker's Guide. Positively Adamsian.

@Sonny - I'm with you, mang.

[ScoJo]

Haha...I would throw up a 'smug/takin a bow' gif, but I CANT WORK OUT HOW AND NOBODY WILL TELL ME! ;)

[Mateo Sanboval]

burn

[milliondollars]

ok guys, time to reveal my real pseudonym. this is actually me:



i was lucky enough to learn how to use the very first underwater computer ever, learning to write on a underwater keyboard. this fact made me able to make it to this forum. the real reason why i am into underwater is because back in the days all our underwater record shops carry underwater music only. this is the type of music we like and listen to every day. it's all natural...

[milliondollars]

time to get back to the program, haha!

this one is the last and probably best one from the Bruton underwater stuff (at least the ones i know). it features music by the famous Alan Hawkshaw mostly who is a well known KPM pioneer. amazing atmosphere from start to finish...

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Underwo ... se/1939085

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[Bezulsqy]

Thanks @Million!
Great thread. Will go and study to learn more about these bubbly tunes.

[Dollarhyde]

Aqua by Edger Faroese

Great bubbly, dark, underwater, electronic, zoner.

[deafmetal]

WarpLP58 - Experimental underwater bubble-hop

[Mateo Sanboval]

I've never seen Stay Down on Wax. Great album. I wore the CD out.

[milliondollars]

great additions @Dollar&deaf! i have Aqua and have casette copy of Stay Down but I totally did not have it on my underwater radar!