Does anyone else like this type of music?

An example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wif3MEdRaPA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wif3MEdRaPA

But you are right music comes in many different forms and I may like some and someone else will not.

I am not a music snob I just like what I like end of.

+1 for Human League, Jon.   Jan Hammer and Jean Michel Jarre I really ought to explore, I've heard them both at different times but can't really claim familiarity with either.

Like you, I like what I like, no one genre: some classical, rockabilly, (rhythm and) blues, J-pop, metal, what in my youth was called underground (ie High Tide), some jazz, and much else both ancient and modern, with very little to connect it all other than to say I'm fond of female vocals, much less male ones.

One consequence of this disparate lot is that my wife has never bought me music. She's never been able to work out why I like A but not B. I think she gave up trying to guess what my taste is long ago, and is quietly convinced I have no taste whatever!

I seem to have rambled away from synthesizer music, don't I...

Me too, People say to me all the time I didn't think you like that sort of music. I am not a fan of classical music and I don't have any but would not say I don't like it and as for female vocals most of what I like as female in it, Blondie for one. I do buy a lot of music with females in the band or on vocals or both. Jan Hammer, Jean Michel Jarre not a big fan with only 2 or 3 of their albums but what I do have I like vary much. I just started this post for a bit of fun, but it does get to me when people say that's not proper music (synthesizer music)

IMO, there's nothing intrinsically unmusical or "inferior" about the synth. For example, Bach's keyboard music works very well on the synth. There's a pretty strong argument that the pipe organ, for which he wrote a lot of his music, is the earliest form of synth.

However, the synth's reputation may be slightly tarnished by the fact that, sonically, it is so flexible, that how and when it is typically used, musical form and structure can sometimes take a back seat to "pure effects and theatrics".

I am partial to a little J-M-J myself, occasionally. Purely in terms of what's written on the staves, the actual "music-material" is very slender. But that's not the point - one has to take in the whole context of the sound-world he's creating and admit that's as much a part of the "music" as the notes on the page.

No musical instrument, other than a synth set up appropriately, generates a pure 1khz sine wave. They all have a natural harmonic series (of, usually, even harmonics!) and the composition of that harmonic series determines the nature of the tone (the timbre) of the instrument. Synths, including virtually all forms of the organ, deliberately bring the manipulation of the composition of that harmonic series within the control of the performer, and so allow them to synthesize different sounds. It's fully intended, so not distortion :-)

If, OTOH, the amp does this all by itself in response to a 1khz sine wave, then that definitely is distortion. And this is why some groups of listeners like certain types of amplifier, because the "right" kind of distortion adds harmonic interest to the sound. It's the "right" kind of distortion because it follows the natural harmonic series that we're all familiar with just from hearing natural sounds.

My father had lots of synth music including JMJ, Tangerine Dream, and Rick Wakeman. In the new wave era I enjoyed the early Human League albums, Ultravox, Gary Numan, and John Foxx among others. The Peter Gabriel albums have a lot of syntheised and sampled sounds. Fortunately I still have all the LP's from these artists and things like Vangelis too. I'd also add Who's Next as a good example. My sense then and now is that a lot of hard work went into creating those sounds with relatively simple analogue equipment. Whilst loving that cutting edge I'd agree with RichW abou the sophistication of modern synth music.

Not a synth but the enrichment of amplifier distortion made me think of Jon Lord's Hammond through a Marshall amp, yielding 'the beast' you'll hear on classic Deep Purple albums.

Jon. Me to I much prefer the early Human League stuff

Nice image Rich.

That's a band I have not heard of in a long time (Yazoo) I was not into them but I did like some of their tracks that made it  into the charts.

Today I ordered a Glass Candy album Beat Box and LCD Soundsystem's Sound of Silver, I did wont them on Vinyl but after looking on Discogs I could only get them from the USA & Canada and I was looking at over £100 each with shipping so I ended up buying them second hand on CD for under £25 with shipping, it seems that both bands are not that popular in the UK because after looking on HMV & Am--on & others they came up with (Glass Candy) only one album of theirs which I already have LCD were a bit more popupar but most albums would have been on CD. I did try on Discogs to order Class Candy on vinyl from Japan at just over £40 but something went wrong and when I went back the listing had been taken down. 

New music outside the charts is hard to get on vinyl and cd in the streaming age. I signed up for Tidal last year for the huge archives and some of the new music. It has also allowed me to find and play quite a lot of punk and post punk stuff.

I do like this band, I have a few of their albums. I this should have gone under  Music that's impressed you today as I have just got it and listen to it today.

Played this synth LP the other day. Berlin school electronics circa '84.

Played this synth LP the other day. Berlin school electronics circa '84.

I've heard of them

I did email the shop I got it from and he said that the only other album I've got is I Always Say Yes, which I have, he also said if you email me back saying yes he would get back to me if he got any more of their music in, which I did.

Immersive, thoughtful soundscapes to distract temporarily from a lousy world.

with Vidna Obmana & Stream of Thought with Erik Wollo.

Steve Roach's solo work is also diverse and interesting.
Some are very immersive and meditative - such as Back to Life & Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces
and many others in his long catalogue.