This account has moved40 years old. Seemed so ground breaking at the time. Chock full of crunchy, dirty, distorted 8 bit samples that were state of the art when this was released. #music #sampling #80s
Dud (Mx)@emsquared Groundbreaking stuff. One of the best albums to come out of the 1980s.
@BackFromTheDud Certainly very influential. That and Into Battle that came before it.
@emsquared Yes, but "Who's Afraid Of" gave us the massive single "Close (To the Edit)", and that was the real breakthrough. They took the electronic music scene, and turned it up to 11!
3dcandy@emsquared tis a classic.....
@emsquared also 40 years old though is this classic - which I feel is a better album
#thomasdolby #theflatearth
#thomasdolby #theflatearth
@3dcandy A more musical album for sure. Saw him at the Dominion Theatre about then.
@emsquared I've seen him erm 3 times I think. Last time in Brumingham
Bob Thomson@emsquared thing is, the crunch and dirtiness gave them a real rock and roll character which makes them seem less cliched now than later preset / default stuff we all heard too many times. Especially JJ’s colossal kick and snare. Still love that sound :) Identifiable on others like Scritti’s Absolute.
@bobthomson70 Yes. Absolutely. I'm sure either JJ or Gary said exactly that. That the Fairlight colouring (mangling!) of sound was very rock & roll and had it's own character just as a certain guitar and amp would whereas the even more expensive Synclavier was more transparent, less identifiable, less signature sound.
@emsquared though, my favourite part of their early stuff is the piano part at the end of Beatbox, and it's just a good old grand, nicely recorded, and played, but who can top that sound? :)
@bobthomson70 A proper analogue way to end. They did a couple of Radio 1 sessions at the time, one where the piano outro morphs into video killed the radio star and an absolute killer version of Beatbox (now hard to find online) that starts with a thumping piano classical piano intro. The advantage of having a solid musician like Anne Dudley in the mix.
@emsquared oh yeah, she's great and it's such a great combination of them all.