System 7 is one of my long-time favorite music groups. I just checked their website to see whether there was any news about a new release. They’re putting out a new CD in January and there’s an animation up on YouTube set to an “edit” of one of the new tracks:
System 7 is one of the sources of music that fuels Audio Damage; I’ve probably written more code while listening to them than any other act.
Cool music, post a review when it’s out. What other albums do you recommend from them?
Interesting about the YouTube video. I’m seeing that more and more. It’s like YouTube is the new MTV – a vehicle for artists to get their music heard.
Let’s see… If I have to pick favorites, I’d probably say “Seventh Wave” and “Power of Seven”, although “Encandato” is definitely in the running. The early ones whose titles are somewhat ambiguous (I think that they were titled differently in the U.S. and U.K.) with the green and orange covers, respectively, are also very good. I don’t think that there’s anything by them that I don’t like, although I don’t play the “System 7 Express” remix CD very often–but it’s mostly remixes by other people.
Interesting point about YouTube. I guess one nice thing about it is that you can get your music heard without having to pay for the server bandwidth. 🙂
Nice stuff – I have some ancient Steve Hillage that I really enjoy (Rainbow Dome Musik) and I can hear a connection. I’ll need to hunt down some more of this.
“Rainbow Dome Musik” is a classic; I have it also. There’s another Steve Hillage album called “FOR TO NEXT – AND NOT OR” [actually, “AND NOT OR” was originally a limited edition freebie included with the first release of “FOR TO NEXT” but they were issued together as one CD] that came after “Rainbow Dome Musik” and is transitional in style between the ambient “Rainbow Dome Musik” and the danceable, rhythm-oriented material of System 7.
Interestingly enough, both of those albums were done by the same people that comprise System 7: Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy.
The earliest System 7 material was released under the name ‘777’, including some 12″ that I have lying around of Alpha Wave.
Nice to see people still have good taste in music even after all these years. In fact it’s interesting seeing this as I just re-bought several cd’s I had in the 90’s from an Amazon used cd shop in Cali as my copies had long since bitten the dust and I couldn’t find mp3’s for sale anywhere.
The name ‘777’ was/is used in the United States; see http://www.a-wave.com/system7/ for the official explanation.