Help identifying '80s library tracks.

[MusicMixxerMan]

Hello all. I need help identifying five '80s library tracks, the first among a collection I discovered nearly twenty years ago on file-sharing servers. I've found many soundalikes since then on library archive sites like KPM, APM, and YouTube, right down to the individual instruments, all by different composers, and each have in common the Yamaha DX-7 keyboard and Linn9000 drum machine.

It appears that many of the others I have were not properly archived in their respective libraries. Some of them I found on YouTube in videos of albums whose tracks weren't demarcated, therefore weren't searchable by title. But these five are driving me crazy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGSnnwDiDj9fegSF5IhrxKj49hUtiE1q/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UVi8KwasRGxmgnS59cZfoxl2R82Ub4AQ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMGayl4YKWjN-bv03DwQ1NUUse55GoNq/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lHjzQVPgPGausnBfL1e7w4OD-z7nS_zv/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MmGDXaWtd8_qjPUYwUDnHsQxLOp9NB2V/view?usp=sharing

[Bronic]

Those files have some sort of diagram for a synthesizer panel as album cover. Are those from some demonstration tape?

[MusicMixxerMan]

Those files have some sort of diagram for a synthesizer panel as album cover. Are those from some demonstration tape?

I don't know. That's why I've posted them here for help in identifying them. I downloaded them from file-sharing servers like WinMX, Limewire, and Napster back in 2005, along with many others. These are the ones I like best. The diagram is of a Roland Juno-60 strings preset, a jpeg file in the same folder. I don't know how they got stuck together.

As I said yesterday, I've found so many different soundalikes in the last couple of years on YouTube and on other library sites by different artists, some of which are on Bruton and others on Sonoton, but all of which are nearly identical production-wise, featuring the Yamaha DX-7 and Linn9000, but I have yet to nail these specific five tracks. This Bruton Music album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-j867zYB-w&ab_channel=LibraryMusicFanChannel is the closest I've come to anything resembling the first of my five tracks. I have been scouring library sites and YouTube almost on a track-by-track basis and I am weary from it.

[autoreverse]

I can unfortunately not help you with identifying them, but I feel your pain. Wow, so many recognizable DX7-presets in those tunes, f.ex. the strings in Wave B are called "Grokstring". (They could probably have used a TX816 for arranging the music though). And yeah, that Bruton Music album did indeed sound similar.

[MusicMixxerMan]

I can unfortunately not help you with identifying them, but I feel your pain. Wow, so many recognizable DX7-presets in those tunes, f.ex. the strings in Wave B are called "Grokstring". (They could probably have used a TX816 for arranging the music though). And yeah, that Bruton Music album did indeed sound similar.

Eh, thanks. It's been such a frustrating endeavor. I even went on Reddit's Retro Library Music forum two years ago and nobody was able to identify them, but some did posit that the TX816 might have been used, funnily enough.

I don't know where else to look.

[stackjackson]

Have you explored the Network label => https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=370.0

That's what these clips remind me of, but sorry I can't ID any


Links here: https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=9298.msg63360#new

[MusicMixxerMan]

Have you explored the Network label => https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=370.0

That's what these clips remind me of, but sorry I can't ID any


Links here: https://librarymusicthemes.com/index.php?topic=9298.msg63360#new

Wow, that's a pretty big collection! I'm wading through it as I speak but so far haven't found anything similar to my tracks. I think mine are European in origin. Thanks though for this resource.

[bongo_rock]

The first and fourth track are fantastic! I so much wish I knew the names of these tracks so that I could buy the albums and rip them!

[MusicMixxerMan]

The first and fourth track are fantastic! I so much wish I knew the names of these tracks so that I could buy the albums and rip them!

Aren't they great?  The first one sounds like a summer-of-1984, beach-rock, surfer-dude track. The epitome of great '80s music. The others are nice, easy jazz/funk tracks.

Damn, I wish somebody could identify these tracks. I'd buy the albums (physical or digital) in a heartbeat as well.