Yeah, brilliant guy with great insights. Great video!
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An album is being released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) in 1982. WOMAD did not do well financially, and funds were raised via the Peter Gabriel-Genesis- Steve Hackett reunion “Six Of The Best” at Milton Keynes later in 1982. This is a video about that first WOMAD.
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yeah I remember that as I’d wanted to go to see The Bunnymen. I collected bootleg tapes of their gigs and that sounded great, especially with Zimbo with the Burundi drummers.
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Man, why have I only decided to browse this thread now? Thanks everyone. I can now unsubscribe from Netflix. There is more than enough quality entertainment here. 
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Some videos on FM synthesis, because here’s a sweet deal for Native Instruments’ FM8:
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This is quite a treat, Thomas Dolby explaining how She Blinded Me With Science came about plus a live performance of it.
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What fun! He makes it look effortless… as in “play”.
I posted that in another discord a few days ago 
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I got it in my YT recommendations so I’m guessing we’re happy victims of the algorithm.
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Look, stay with me, okay? This may be the second greatest achievement of the human intellect. The first? It’s subject:
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That was incredible, thanks for sharing!
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A recent documentary about the Fairlight CMI, including interviews with the people who made it
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Thank you Paul. This is an amazing albeit too short documentary. What a revolution. My first exposure would have been Peter Gabriel 4, which I love dearly to this day, as well as Hounds of Love which I love equally. It was when I saw the documentary about how Peter Gabriel used the Fairlight on PG4 to make those sounds that the penny dropped, and I was amazed at the instrument and how immediately creative artists like PG and KB were with it. I still can’t wrap my head around this being 8-bit sampling and two Motorola 68k CPU’s. It boggles my mind and either I’ve misunderstood samplerates or they fixed it all in mixing and mastering. Anyway - great stuff!
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Maybe the key was having two 68000 CPUs. for 16 bit processing. My Ensoniq Mirage RS was 8 bits via one 6809. As mentioned elsewhere, I was never very fond of the “mirage”. Of course, the Mirage was a ~$1000 8 voice sampling synth in ~84 when I bought it.
For me it was the tuned glass smashing noises on Kate Bush’s single Babooshka - “what witchcraft is this?” I wondered. Not sure if that was the first hit featuring a Fairlight, but must have been one of them.
This was another band that got their (lot of) money’s worth out of such mechanical beasts
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Is that how it worked in the Fairlight?