The Chosen Themes - Program I

by Vision Heat

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1.	Vision Heat Logo Tone #4 00:30	buy track
2.	Power Windows 01:40	buy track
3.	Fast Teddy 02:59	buy track
4.	Fire Escape 01:04	buy track
5.	Tailing The Chief 03:23	buy track
6.	Drive to the Dome 01:33	buy track
7.	Crystal Dreams 01:54	buy track
8.	Run With the Foxx 03:04	buy track
9.	Ambush 02:20	buy track
10.	Ambushed Again (Bootleg Excerpts) 01:21	buy track
11.	The Main Attraction 03:12	buy track
12.	Ginergy 02:05	buy track
13.	City Skyline Montage 02:45	buy track
14.	Route 1 00:40	buy track
15.	Tough Break 01:28	buy track
16.	City Nites Themes 1 & 2 02:17	buy track
17.	Highway Jammin' 01:40	buy track
18.	Thanks for the Party 02:08	buy track
19.	Curves and Forms 04:38	buy track

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Recorded between 2012-2014, Jared Blum’s (of GiganteSound, The Talking Book, Blanketship, Vulcanus 68, et al.) Vision Heat project is a laser guided, hyper vintage conflation of early to mid 80’s centric production, montage and style. Recalling such luminaries as Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Harold Faltemeyer, Craig Safan and such lofty houses as KPM, Bruton and Parry with nods to oddballs from Russia and the Eastern Bloc, Blum still manages to be forcefully yet effortlessly unique. Inspired by countless soundtrack compilations and blog mixes of rare, foreign library and VHS music, Vision Heat varies in production style and technique as if it were the definitive archive - deftly genre skipping from moody sci-fi suspense, incidental queues and dramatic scores to uplifting electro-boogie, synthpop and cinematic arrangements. Ultimately so much more than an homage, The Chosen Themes are a subtle and skilled conjuring of a full spectrum re-imagined past. Part one of a two volume set.

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Perfectly realized homage to OG '80s VHS library music from Jared Blum as Vision Heat. Root Strata had the pleasure of picking out 19 pieces for 'The Chosen Themes - Program I', ranging from hi-NRG adrenalizers to ominous 'ludes and swanky electro-disco showcasing Blum's remarkable breadth of styles and a carefully assembled aesthetic wisely nodding to the likes of Carpenter/Howarth, Goblin's Claudio Simonetti, Klaus Schulze, Harold Faltemeyer and those other guys who scored your adolescent nightmares and semi-illicit VHS thrills. Your studio-master, Jared Blum hails from San Francisco and therefore it's understandable his take on this era is infected with a glitzy pomp and FM power jam appeal safely compared with the Parry Music Library set on Public Information, perhaps as opposed to the proggy UK/European strains dug by Andy Votel and Sean Canty or even faked by Norm Chambers (Panabrite) for his 'Science of the Sea' hoodwink. However, to all but the trained connoisseur, for all intents and purposes these could quite conceivably soundtrack hammy car chases or ratchet the tension of some horror filmed in an old gothic pile. RIYL Pye Corner Audio, John Carpenter, Finders Keepers, Steve Moore, Umberto, Anton Maiovvi.

Released on LP by Root Strata
Edition of 300

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released May 22, 2015

Produced by Jared Blum

Mastered by Helmut Erler at Dubplates & Mastering / Berlin, Germany
Distributed by Morr Music GmbH

Exclusive video stills provided by Jennifer Juniper Stratford.
video for Power Windows telefantasystudios.com/VISION-HEAT-Power-Windows

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Vision Heat

Welcome to the Vision Heat Music Solutions Ltd. Digital Archive. Here you will find an ongoing preservation of the entire Vision Heat catalog of library production and soundtrack music spanning from 1981 until it's demise in 1988.
We are very excited to share these recordings with you and hope you enjoy taking a peek back in time.
-Jared Blum: musician and founder ... more

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