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Before i continue with my development of this article i will say this-i am slightly biased in my view of electronic music, since i am most fond of it.

With that out of the way i will further elaborate my earliest experiences with electronic music. Indeed, as i was born in the early 1980's alot of electronic music at that time had coverage ont he radio,what with the electronic influences of the early 1980's and its foresaid pop culture.

As i began to get a little older i experienced a new outlet for electronic synthesised music - computer games. My first computer was an atari 65xe, and 8 bit machine which i still like to play with every now and again. With the rise of 8 bit machines and consoles at that time, such as the zx spectrum, the commodore series and the amastrad cpc series, computer game music was by and large, a large genre. However the synthesisers available to these 8 bit machines were generally quite limited. With the raw and gratey sounds of an analogue synth providing a wonderful backing track to gameplay, as kids and young adults we were hypnotised by the pure notes of the synthesised and early cyber world, whilst blasting cyberspaces alien spaceships and other exciting visual spectacles, into oblivion.

One of my favourite music tracks from those good old days of gaming, is in fact the "Panther Theme" from the game panther. Written by david whittaker this has a very retro and raw feel to it, whilst providing a motivational ideal to the game. I use this track also if im writing articles (im listening to it right now). If you wish to experience the wonder of this track for yourself then by all means, visit:

http://www.mediafire.com /?7mdvmrzd63e

What i like most about the early synthesised sounds used in electronic music, is in fact the grittyness of it. I cannot help but admire the fact that these wonderful sounds (as a technicality) are in fact developed from the combination of three imple waveforms, and various pitches and amplitudes. The science behind the fourier analysis of these simple sounds, is in fact a marvel in itself.

At this time, the music industry was using a powerful new concept for the development of electronic music -these sounds and approaches in music gave rise to new popular subcultures on emergence. Looking back on all of our wonderful digital technology now, we can see that computer technology on its horizons of new greatness, was as much as exciting then as it was now - only it had a much more select audience.

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