Favorite Synth Riffs

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Post songs with your favorite keyboard riffs. Here are some iconic examples.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJ-wNmazHQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlq0lYB3iSM[/youtube]

And some of my favorites
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQyGbv0oZ8&feature=kp[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQzNBTukO0w[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6Kr5e2dYc[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSue36BpH8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liq-seNVvrM[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkFpiZQm8xQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZQrGMvpQKI[/youtube]

i could pick just about any of their songs tbh, but i really love this one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4feqXewuls[/youtube]
This song is so calm, peaceful, and dreamlike, yet it has this dark undercurrent to it like many other DM tracks. It is easily one of their greatest songs.

Great, now I feel like listening to the entire Violator album again for the millionth time. That record is a thing of beauty.

Also this.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatorN4P9aA&feature=kp[/youtube]

It's not at all "riffy", as far as synthesizer music goes this album is an absolute masterpiece.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlBIQqIPaGg[/youtube]

And now for some serious mood whiplash, courtesy of Nine Inch Nails. It was actually kind of hard to find a decent quality upload of this song.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp5coij0--8[/youtube]

OK, now for something with an actual synth riff, and one of the greatest ones ever recorded at that.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTr-IgXW5P4[/youtube]

As you can tell, I really really like synth music, whether it's the oldschool 70s stuff, the aggressive industrial variety, or even trance.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6I6yr7WDeg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvif5IO9stU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ukfGAd8T4[/youtube]

Kudos to those who posted Take On Me and Xpander (there's a much longer version of this too, for even more synthy goodness...)

I would've posted one of the longer versions of Xpander, but it was hard to find one that was decent quality and not timestretched or sped up. I like the Wip3out version despite its shorter length, and I knew that I would be able to find a decent quality upload of it, so that's why I posted it.

This is a clip from the movie Beyond The Black Rainbow with strong retro look and a great Synth score by Jeremy Schmidt.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQS3IaR1NVU[/youtube]


One of my favorite bands Apparat Organ Quartet workin' the keyboards. This feels almost like an old Goblin soundtrack.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1jECj8YD5k&list=AL94UKMTqg-9Bi6HDpxvssdcVLMw8Xm0PW[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_BITX7T5H4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkg4cwJp1Y&feature=kp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81RqEnvczV8