late 70s-80s electronic music (Fairlight)

[SoundAverse]

my god, this guy works fast...now all he needs to do to finish off is hit the delete button.

[usedtobeemo]

Deadmau5 in the 70's

[PatAttack1000]

This is well "bo pich"

[michal23pl]

1:11 PLANET ROCK!

[mariothepookster]

wow! a flash from the past ... great stuff ...

[engineofdoom]

Another finely attenuated INTONARUMORON pick.

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[groovyjoker]

Who is that - touchscreen with a pen? So cool!

[thejordanb96]

that is not real music

[bcbudful]

sweet touch screen and first sampler? so awesome shit

[AstralDragon100]

wow he's good man

[dhiyafaris]

wow..

touchscreen! :)

[bratman82]

Just because the music is electronic and composed on a computer does not mean that it is not real music. Stop being a luddite!

[Hendrixonas]

thats when the real music died

[latenesatroden86]

1:29 Amazing Modern Technology XD

[zumerian]

and how many 3.5" floppy's dose he carry around in his case?

[Chavezoid]

Light sensitive monitors??? Didn't even know they had them back then. Must have cost a fortune. In the late 70s, 1 Mb of hard disk space cost big bucks.

[Vebinz]

@Chavezoid

I don't think the monitors are light-sensitive, rather the pen is. I used to have a light pen on my old Amiga and it worked even on a tv because the sensor was on the pen itself.

[CoolColJ]

The birth of techno as we know it today :?

[bebeDesigner]

I want to do the same thing NOW, in 2011, but i couldnt find any "music maker" like this old garbage :(

[baznian]

@bebeDesigner Tried fruity loops ?

[bebeDesigner]

@baznian Fruity Loops can save your pressed buttons? Ive never heard about that. :/

[baznian]

@bebeDesigner It can do almost anything, just watch few tutorials even available here on yt

[bebeDesigner]

@baznian i hate ignorance. -.-

[baznian]

@bebeDesigner ignorance ?

[bebeDesigner]

oh welll... >( from now, i hate dictionary too.

[daflux7]

lol liveact

[liverawkstar]

Page R on Fairlight,

the beginning of it all

[michinco]

Yellow Magic Orchestra

[yoyoyoy500]

I did not really think that you could connect an electronic piano to a computer back then.

[NintendoDSVampire]

@yoyoyoy500 Dude this isn't the 50s or 60s... It's the late 70s.. -_-

[GN4RLYPOSSUM]

dude 1:27 he's jammin' !!

[ChemicalComedown]

Art of Noise done wonders with the Fairlight !!! : )

[ravinago]

DONKEY KONG!!!!!!!!

[dhampex]

Man! I remember these fairlight cost nearly $100.000.00. Great synth at the time!!!

[bluegreedo]

cubase!

[CaptainOvious123]

never knew lionel messi could play the keyboard

[KoldunOne]

he is fucking audiogod!

[speeedskater]

looks like a C16 computer, 16K of memory

[shisha9000zippo]

Touchscreen ;)

[shisha9000zippo]

touchsreen ;)

[ultimatenerd22]

this is a pretty good song

[arru79]

That's a Fairlight CMI, for those who don't recognize the flute sound :-P

[Koncreteis]

Fruity Loops Version 1 lol

[spiralshaman]

That's very cool.

[hrford]

A light pen, cos mice hadn't been invented and rats were too big.

[sallatti]

i like this touch screen!!!

[zwerty007]

Electronic music has been around since around 1890, but then it was just noise music, not programmable music.

[Krisando]

I'm actually disappointed how modern the pc he was using was.

[groovyjoker]

@Krisando I know - makes you feel like we haven't come that far, huh!

[maskednil]

lol! wacom's grandad!!

[goldensolder44]

i want one of those machines, make better music.

[66richardson]

That's Rory Kaplan, people!

[IxSnortxCocaine]

pro tools 1.0 beta

[jnsbp83]

@IxSnortxCocaine ahsuahsuahsuhasuhasuhaushaush

[Hippiemoose911]

light pens?! I wish we had those!

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

This is making me multi-jizz..

[DRNEGOLICIS]

ha ha light pens the good ol days

[rufiao]

synthesizer patel

[tearsofblood88]

i think this is how they made the classic video games 

[tearsofblood88]

that is pretty bad ass wish i had this set up

[metaflux2]

@tearsofblood88 You can foo, its called MIDI. Learn how yo use it :D

[timmaytwotime]

"...artists then began using the drug ecstasy and this so called electronic music was superbly enhanced in both quality and enjoyment"

[Wayavas1337]

@timmaytwotime idiot

[fatqwert200]

Fruity loops Studios Dos 1.0 light mouse not included

[Luggagerecords]

Sounds like the end credits to a little known Bill Murray movie

[Lagoslover]

Ho Yes Fucking idiots of the iphone and ipods the touchscreen it was exist in the 80s the fucking goverment and assosiates stop the technology progress for them selling us in 2010 like something new and revolutionary buuh!

[retrojaxed2]

@Lagoslover to true.

[tehks0032]

Oh joy. Isn't that a Fairlight?

[TrakDah]

@tehks0032

[TrakDah]

@tehks0032 Fairlight CMI

[GamingPalooza]

amazing, fruity loops for DOS lol

[ybot1983]

great all that technology used to create a caribbean wedding band

[drout0]

oh!! that's how pen computing started !! : ) years before palm pilot ( and .. newton ) being famous. ( i know. it's a light pen. i had one of these for my zx spectrum in 1985.

[Treemeadow]

Ms Paint Composer's grandfather :p

[slaytalix]

beginning ist from 5. brandburg concert in d major from js bach. nice fairlight, very expensive in the 80s

[Tarapatintirintintin]

the early Cool Edit Pro PC´s program ahahahha, amaizing video. i love´t!!

[SweetSweetWaldo]

Xenakis had this all figured out in the 1950s. 

[leanmachene]

haha brill, from a synth head this is retro cool

[DetroitLove4U]

My mind is locked in a dreamscape!!!

[Guakingo]

Oh, how easy it is to criticize this video... but remember, it´s just a quick demo of one of the very first digital instruments ever, the actual musical statement is not what matters here. In fact, in this respect it is similar to the million or so videos we can see here in Youtube with so-called "demos" of actual and vintage gear.

[1981analog]

You know how much those things cost? £60, 000.

[1981analog]

FAIRLIGHT!!!!

[rapper1918]

this shit sucks

[dubjohnston]

awesome..

[keyboardplaya]

Believe it or not, any synth that can do realtime sampling like the Fairlight would still cost a ridiculous amount. And by that, I mean it makes the Yamaha Motif XS8 look like a Fisher Price toy.

And I've spoken about this with Herbert Deutsch, who co-invented the Moog synthesizer.

[AustinMini1963]

Wow! the music he was making was really bad but it looks so much fun! I want one!

[grosdootie]

who needs a light pen when you make this crap

[COMPACTASS1]

80'S HAS NO SOUL!!

[lagubodoh]

i wonder how much this machine would cost on ebay..

[faunflynn]

I used a Fairlight CMI series 3 in '87.( The one in this video is a series 1 or 2.) They cost too much.

Ah memories....the all nighters with stoned prima donna singers and the ten minute guitar solos !

These things cost the same as a small house

No wonder the music biz imploded.

Good post man !

[zxcv1234vcxz]

@faunflynn And now PCs can do it with free software for about $700. Ain't it great?

What's important has never changed: No amount of technology will ever make up for a lack of talent. Any song that is worthwhile can be recreated with one voice and one instrument, usually a guitar or a piano.

Musicians like Devo, Kraftwerk, New Order and Thomas Dolby may use heavy doses of technology in the studio, but they still play their songs live, by hand, mostly with regular instruments.

[suwymoon09]

this guy has got the whole 'bonkers' scene at his fiinger tips...bullshit

[Envergure]

Sounds like my first couple hours with FL Studio, except he has talent :P

[Petanator101]

Holy Shit! It's just like Garage Band only with a touch screen and 30 years older!

[cm2dude]

That is an 80's Fairlight CMI.

[jd1120fan]

Hightech

[3dmundo]

what is this SUP (?) key actually?

[badgerbuddy]

it looks like D.O.S garage band

[peacedon58]

AAAAAAAAAAmmmmmmmmaaaaaaazzzzz­zzzzziiiiinnnnngggggggggg

[fryloc359]

Revenge of the Nerds?

[jnsbp83]

@fryloc359 - Try to make just similar. Only lonely. Like him...

[dukath]

... and ten years or so later, Trent Reznor uses funky synthesized sounds set to a good beat to master this method of "music creation".

Pretty sweet. 4 stars.

[ginnungagap3]

trent reznor is gay

[dukath]

ginnungagap3 - It's cool to disagree with me - and it looks like at least 5 other people have... but does someone's sexual preference make any impact on the quality of music they create?

[wass8462]

i bet he gets more ass than a toilet seat

dumb bitch

[KoksOnkel]

na den hat ja n schickn kompiuta :D

[rrrobotic]

Your critical faculties have been castrated by postmodernism.

[butheadVSbevus]

Oh fairlight I wish i had one of those

[pornswordtobacco]

funky

[SullenMorbius]

he's master of the fucking universe!

[EmilieJoyRowell]

early? what year is it?

[katafeyka]

1979---84

[EmilieJoyRowell]

I just mean that 79-84 isn't that early ;)

[floamcore]

house

[Vuduman]

Just goes to show you can have expensive bleeding edge technology, playing skills, and still create really inane music!

[Ogaitnas900]

and an orange shirt, dont forget that.

[Vuduman]

i don't know if it was on purpose, but the quantization was set too coarse, changing what he was playing while recording

[snolan1990]

Yeah I think it was just set to 16ths

Needs a little shuffle.

[ElasticMinds]

fairlights used to cost as much has houses back then. Now with computers we can make tracks that go WAY beyound this, but we dont have the crunchy 8 bit samples to go with it.

[AnalogAudio1]

on some sounds 8-bit sounds great, but if you have always only 8-bit, that's not that great...

[Lykuodic]

I've never heard anything worse in my life...

[CRperro]

I want this!

[elik333]

This really isn't THAT early. Fairlight came at the beginning of the digital age of electronic music, Milton Babbit, Wendy Carlos, Morton Subotnic, and Raymond Scott were pioneering this genre in the 50's and 60's

[devolve42]

RAYMOND SCOTT

yes

[SwedeWithAnAccent]

I've been looking for this EVERYWHERE! Thanks for uploading:D

[Bboybobo]

fantastic!

[chapeauetbarbe]

Thats why 80's music sounds mostly like @#%! Of course there are many excetions, like Kraftwerk, ect, ......

[JackLipnick]

gotta love the fairlight. thanks for posting!