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The coolest synth bass lines ever!

#81
Not just knee deep (P-Funk)
Don't disturb this groove
Don't laugh (Get into the beat and who's that Girl Madonna)
I like (Guy)
 
#84
I just discovered this thread yesterday and since then have made a Spotify playlist of all the tunes I hadn't heard/had forgotten. You guys are great - keep 'em coming.

Here's a few I dig:
Somethingood - Chromeo
Cool - Morris Day & The Time
Skeletons - Stevie Wonder
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Do Yourself A Favor - Jamie Lidell
Crime Pays - Hall & Oates
Colours - Calvin Harris
(Not Just) Knee Deep - Funkadelic


Incidentally, a buddy of mine and I just put out an 80's electro-funk record a couple months back. I'd love some feedback on the basslines and the rest of the tunes. I tried to post individual tunes, but the links weren't working. Here's a link to the first tune:



The whole set is called Drivetime (why I couldn't link directly to the set I don't know). I'm particularly proud of the synth bass on Ernestine and Tuesday Night - love to hear your thoughts!
 
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#85
caligula said:
My 2 cents regarding Peter Gabriel's "Big Time."
All synth bass except 0:40 - 0:57, that's where you can hear his funky fingers. I remember reading an interview with Tony Levin and he said that he had recorded the complete song using his funky fingers and was a bit surprised to hear the final version on the album with a synth bass and only 20 seconds of his bass left in the song.
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2 more cents, to clarify...

1) They're called Funk Fingers (not FunkY)

2) On So it was Jerry Marotta that drummed the bass strings. He and Levin spent a ton of time coordinating and practicing the line, hence their surprise when it only showed up for that brief bit in the final mix. The Funk Fingers idea didn't come up until Levin was having trouble recreating the sound with a regular drumstick for the tour.

On topic: cool synth bass lines can be found on most Thompson Twins stuff, like The Gap. Tom Bailey played some tasty grooves.
 
#86
I've got a few that have yet to be mentioned...

Yarbough & Peoples - Don't Stop The Music



We Getting Down - Weldon Irvine



You're The One for Me - D-Train



Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait



Axel F - H. Faltermeyer




*Currently putting together a Spotify playlist that I'll publish here when it's done.
 
#88
Lots of great ones already mentioned ("Funkin' For Jamaica" and "Brighter Tomorrow" by Tom Brown came to mind first).

Art Of Noise - "Close (To The Edit)":



The "Sleng Teng" riddim:



Don Blackman "Yabba Dabba Doo":



808 State - "Pacific":



The Valentine Brothers - "Money's Too Tight To Mention":

 
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Lizardskyball said:
Skip to 3:50 of this video. He is using a Lovetone Meatball pedal. Pretty sick.
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Firstly - Mike Gordon is the f**king man. No question - I bought a Lovetone Meatball entirely because he uses it and I've still got it.

Secondy, that particular clip sounds more to me like the Akai Deep Impact that he's been fond of in recent years. He's also got a Boss SYB-3 that he dials in occasionally. Here's a better clip of the Meatball in action (check out 4:00 in):



Hell, watch the whole damn thing. Mike is a truly stunning bassist and one of my all time favs (obviously).
 
#95
These spring to mind:

Visage - Fade To Grey
Walking In My Shoes - Depeche Mode
Doctor Who Theme - Delia Derbyshire & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Technically the last is Music Concrete rather than a synth... but hey!
 
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lfo2vco said:
These spring to mind:

Visage - Fade To Grey
Walking In My Shoes - Depeche Mode
Doctor Who Theme - Delia Derbyshire & The BBC Radiophonic Workshop

Technically the last is Music Concrete rather than a synth... but hey!
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Wow, five pages, and no one's mentioned Ultravox, who were early entrants in the Euro synth-pop sweepstakes...

Members contributed heavily to the 'Visage' album, and while, yes, they were heavily influenced by Kraftwerk(the Chuck Berry's of synth), Bowie, Roxy, and Brian Eno(who produced their first album), they were mercilessly ripped off by Gary Numan(the irony being that UV keyboardist Billie Currie played on Numan's hit "Cars"), and this track in particular was pilfered quite a bit by Berlin for their "Metro" hit(I was in a band that opened for them over 30 years ago, and they so much as told me this).
Gary 'fesses up here...

Here's my favorite UV track from the original line up...

Delia Derbyshire was a fascinating and visionary aural sculptor, plus she had that sexy librarian thing going on. The original Dr. Who theme was done in the very early 60's with oscillators, proto-sampling(recordings of musical glass) and tape loop manipulation, no synths(didn't exist yet!), and was an influence on Paul McCartney, especially the loops used on "Tomorrow Never Knows", and if you listen closely, you'll hear where Pink Floyd got a lot of the freak out part(before the drums explode and the groove kicks in with the slide guitar)on "One Of These Days"...

If you want to know more(she died tragically from cancer...)
 
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