Oracle Teletext "Electronic Synth" music UK Channel 4

[MrRikard1994]

MASTERPIECE !

[FrankChickens]

Ah Mark Shreeve - Storm Column from his album Legion released in 1985, great tune!

More importantly, thanks for making this available voon100, it was good to see these pages again. :)

[voon100]

@FrankChickens Ever since I heard this tune on Oracle service I was obsessed into finding out who was it by. Thanks to you now I know. Bless you!

[FrankChickens]

@voon100 : You're welcome:)

Incidentally, check your mail, you'll find a link that'll interest you since YT doesn't like them being posted in comments.

[marlowfu]

i loved the tunes on here, can anyone remember riviera a soup that was on late at night??? need to see it on yt

[Visonu]

This tune was used in the sky movies cinema preview but only the first 19 seconds

[DarkImage11]

cool music

[martybhoy72]

Loved Oracle and 4 tel. C4 the only station with 2 teletext services.

[paddle9]

A small portion [the first 30 seconds or so] of this superb music was used in Sky Movies for its film previews in the early days (c. 1992). It was played over a nice animation that swept into a cinema and swooped onto the screen.

[ooeyb]

4 some reason oracle seemed to me to be much more colourful than ceefax, but i think the latter had the better music. This tracks quite good though.

[DANWOODHOUSE]

Oracle was and always will be much better than Teletext or Ceefax

[Cribblet]

Ah yes 10 years old, run down stairs with douvet when it's still dark, parents asleep switch on the tube. This is nostalga beyond belief a+++

[APEXnow]

I cannot believe I found this at last!!! I used to wait up every Sunday Morning just to hear this tune being played on Channel 4 Teletext & test cards before Jason and the Wheelies. Well, I think that was what the cartoon was called. But this tune just inspired me to become heavy on Jean Michelle Jarre, Vangelis, Johan Agebjorn etc. Thank you.

[GBscottieUK]

No wonder the IBA or ITC aren't around these days, they were always up to nasty tricks, making successful TV broadcasting businesses go fail overnight due to the way they franchised out licences.

[MechWizzard]

Sweet! Found it at last! :)

[pvx]

I remember that this music was also used in a promo for A&E here in the states back in the late 80s (I'm guessing it might be a library track.....)

[mgk2600]

Any one know what song this is? Or where it can be downloaded (if there is a full length song)

[DarkImage11]

@mgk2600 i can email you it :3

[LexDollar]

But how come it went from Oracle to Teletext on ITV and Channel Four?  Teletext is so incredibly boring compared with what Oracle was, and 4-Tel was great too, for the animations! Good memories there.

[tsangari]

Oracle lost an ITV franchise bid in 1991. Licence was handed over to Teletext UK.

[dee1974raz]

I used to remember beatbox when I was a teenager on teletext as shown on the video. It was like a youth magazine, but on TV. Definitely was missed when it went of the air after 1992.

[dee1974raz]

This teletext came from 31st December 1992. Although the music sounds like it comes from 1990 !!!

[KevHal]

I remember hearing this music on a demonstration video for a Cirrus Logic Graphics card driver disk many years ago for a 486 PC.

[rodge020679]

Also I remember sitting through hours of this and ceefax in the mornings just waiting for the the little animations that came up!!

[Cribblet]

I did too this is so nostalgic, reminds me of when I was 10, sitting in the dark living room at 5:45am waiting for the first of the days cartoons, belisimo!

[rodge020679]

Great vid!

Can you believe it has been 17 years (1992) since Oracle ceased transmission!?

[tsangari]

...and in two weeks time Teletext UK closes! I'd be in a fit if ORACLE came back on air...!

[BFCboi]

Bliss to my ears!