Spreading the Legacy

It is improbable not to realise that Tomita drew in a huge audience with the music of the likes of Bach, Mussorgsky, Holst, Debussy, Ives and many others. As stated earlier the likes of Stevie Wonder discovered classical artists through Tomita’s work. So not just leaving his own legacy, Tomita added weight to the legacy of many composers for generations to come. How many people have found joy through these electronic renditions and how many classical lovers have found a whole new genre in electronic music. What lasting impression and influence has Tomita’s work had on modern Electronica, EDM, Techno, Rap and Hip Hop if not directly but from a great distance. Most modern chart music now is composed using digital synthesis and some even using older analogue technology, which being analogue seems to be making a comeback as more and more bedroom producers want that warm sound to their music. Tomita’s influence began what is now permeated into modern chart music and has been the way forward since the synth pop era of the 1980’s. More and more electronic and digitisation has seeped into the modern compositional techniques of composers and producers. Even with the likes of Jarre working with modern artists in collaboration over the last few years on his Electronica 1+2 albums.