Underwater is pure disco. An instrumental, the song has only gotten better with age. Harry Thumann (born Harald Thumann in Germany in 1952 - died 2001) was a German electronic composer and sound engineer. He designed and built groundbreaking synthesizers and studio equipment from the early 1960s onwards.
Thumann started out as a drummer while getting a thorough grounding in audio in German broadcast. When touring lost some of its glamour he decided to put his musical and technical experience to work for his own benefit and started his first studio in a bedroom at the family home. Thumann participated in the development of the SSL 4000 Series of consoles and took the first one for this studio. Premises for a studio with live-in accommodation were found in Germering near Munich and Countrylane studios were born and is still going strong.
Always quick to embrace new technology, Thumann recognised the potential of MIDI and used Commodore 64 computers with MIDI cards controlling a system that evolved into a huge MIDI-controlled synthesizer installation including a plethora of synths and modules, plus a Fairlight II and Moog 3C modular system. This led to a string of albums of Rondo Veneziano, which married both acoustic instruments and synthesizers. His album Andromeda is still a favorite among synthesizer buffs. His sound is very similar to the highly reguarded nrg producer Patrick Cowley, but less known.
audio link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pBvnITZLFM
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