Trying to identify this synth clip...
Discussion
A few weeks ago a clip of music jumped into my head that I vaguely remembered from schools' TV in the 1970s. These things being what they are, the actual tune refused to be recalled from my brain archives. Anyway, this evening I was watching a Tomorrows World clip from 1982 and something very similar indeed got used as part of the background music. (@2m59s) It sounds like the intro to the music I vaguely remembered.
https://youtu.be/gSpXMH9xJy0?t=2m59s
It may just be BBC Radiophonic Workshop, but the music I'm thinking of got used quite a lot, particularly in science programmes. It sounds like early Jean Michel Jarre, but possibly not multi-tracked enough for him. A bit early for Vangellis, and not really Walter/Wendy Carlos' style, industrial enough for Kraftwerk, but maybe too pop-y?
Does it ring any bells for anyone else? I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be kicking myself when I find out what the track is.
https://youtu.be/gSpXMH9xJy0?t=2m59s
It may just be BBC Radiophonic Workshop, but the music I'm thinking of got used quite a lot, particularly in science programmes. It sounds like early Jean Michel Jarre, but possibly not multi-tracked enough for him. A bit early for Vangellis, and not really Walter/Wendy Carlos' style, industrial enough for Kraftwerk, but maybe too pop-y?
Does it ring any bells for anyone else? I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be kicking myself when I find out what the track is.
Only on Pistonheads can you get people having a strop about a quick, successful (nay inspired) outcome! 
I suspect the Tomorrow's World music clip is either (most likely) a Radiophonic Workshop "tribute" tune, or a later Vangelis version, perhaps an extended intro. It is not unusual to have music clips written that sound like other tracks, mostly to avoid royalties. They do it a lot these days on low budget shows like Wheeler Dealers etc. Less so on BBC shows, as they have a strange cover-all agreement. I could certainly imagine the BBC track segueing into Pulstar, unfortunately Pulstar is the first track on the LP.
Anyway, handbags away please!
I suspect the Tomorrow's World music clip is either (most likely) a Radiophonic Workshop "tribute" tune, or a later Vangelis version, perhaps an extended intro. It is not unusual to have music clips written that sound like other tracks, mostly to avoid royalties. They do it a lot these days on low budget shows like Wheeler Dealers etc. Less so on BBC shows, as they have a strange cover-all agreement. I could certainly imagine the BBC track segueing into Pulstar, unfortunately Pulstar is the first track on the LP.
Anyway, handbags away please!
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