Synth Britannia - Part 4/9

[roddiero]

Numan is basically just a genius. If people want to call it Asperger's, fine.

[d3vilaet3rnaweb]

oh shit london

[Sesquipedaliantique]

As soon as he mentioned Fad Gadget I started squealing like a schoolgirl who just met Justin Bieber.

[DuneVelvet]

Shoulda had more Fad Gadget :|

[SuperSonicAnime19]

Gary Numan is the greatest Are Friends Electric is way past cool

[Wifesitter]

Oh, John Peel. The best ever.

[rizBG]

great shirt ! 7:40

[shinysynthcity]

i want to give Gary Numan a hug. :D

[TheDarkFoxXIII]

I didnt know Gary Numan had Asperger syndrome. He was great when I went to see him a few months back

[JoeHortonMusic]

Can anyone tell me what microphone is at 7:40?

[Scotsman707]

whats the song at 5:10?

[richthegill]

@Scotsman707 Back to Nature by Frank Tovey

[Bossness123]

i HATE FAD GADGET

[astadora]

ibrahim tatlas

[worstofthebeast]

@astadora he's even above them but nobody mentions him. he wore a lahmacun suit.

[astadora]

ibrahim tatlas

[cromlek]

Throbbing Gristle are the Kings!!!!!!!!

[diskgrinder]

dry response to what gets hammered out of asbestos buildings, some are still there caparisoned in plasterboard

[matzomaniac]

Throbbing Gristle are amazing!

[Bossness123]

7:50 It's amazing what 30 years can do!

[kingofkeyboards]

music wise I so wish I'd lived in the 70's and 80's. I live in lancashire very near to where joy division, human league etc where formed. Imagine living in a world of synths, computers and machines generating everything to do with music.

[fatcatsarefun]

Modern electro is good, but doesnt feel as well orchestrated or have those real experimental synthy sounds as you did back in the late 70's, hot chip are really the only modern electro band i think could contend with these guys

[TheMercyBeat]

@fatcatsarefun

That's because nothing was programmed before back then, isn't it? All the artists featured in the documentary were using real instruments (synthesizer is a real instrument as well) they'd yet put up all together too. Whereas now nearly everything's programmed and made on computers first. Once you get the stuff programmed before the actual use all the experimentation stops. That's more about the making of music than the final outcome itself that can be either good or bad.

[LetzRock1]

The future arrived 31 years ago from today when Gary was on Top of the Pops. There's been no one like him since.

[pailhead11]

whats the song going at 4:19?

[TheMercyBeat]

@pailhead11

It's Throbbing Gristle's "Hot On The Heels Of Love" from 1979! :-)

[plasticvideo]

its Gary Numan bitch! From London!

[phunkyboy]

weird ,the snare is panned right on the song @ 4.30

[danadepica]

the girls from Sugababes stole the sound from Gary Numan..just listen to "Freak like me"

[w0rmaster]

Gary Numan is so hard to understand.

[SavagesInMyTown]

its so dope that the guy from throbbing gristle made his synth gear

[MrsRhythmNation]

Nick Rhodes and John Taylor compiled an album (Only After Dark) with alot of the music featured on this. It came from the music they played at the Rum Runner in Birmingham, as djs. It's funny how I now find that music was the music which influenced almost all their counterparts aswell.

Early Human League, 'I Feel Love', 'Underpass', The Normal, etc!

[TheMercyBeat]

Nick Rhodes played Cabaret Voltaire at the Rum Runner in Birmingham pretty often too! Top choice for him! ;-)

[piedrada]

Are you refering to DJing? Playing CV?

[TheMercyBeat]

@piedrada

Yes, I am. During his earliest Duran Duran days (1978 - 1980) he was a DJ at the club and used to play CV there pretty often as I recall from some sources I've read.

[vibratingtofu]

What's the Throbbing Gristle song at 3:20? It's exquisite.

[TheMercyBeat]

It is 1979's "Hot On The Heels Of Love". Their best known song of them all. ;-)

[commanderkruge]

Dunno - but I just realised that throbbing gristle are the same ppl as Chris&Cosey. :)

[jamesyireland]

someone please tell me name of the track at beginning of this PLEASE !!!!!!! :(

[TheMercyBeat]

All I know is it is John Foxx's one. But can't remember its name. Unfortunately. :-( ...But to help you searching further I'll tell you it is not a single release either.

[MrsRhythmNation]

@jamesyireland It's John Foxx -Underpass. If you ever need to know a song name, just pust the lyrics into google and you should find some results!

[TheMercyBeat]

It is? The song at the very beginning of this part doesn't start as "Underpass" at all. But could be wrong. Songs have other versions too, you know. So you may be right. I've listened to all John Foxx's singles and none starts as the song at the very beginning. "Underpass" to follow after has a different start. But if it really is thanks for letting me know. :-)

[MrsRhythmNation]

@TheMercyBeat My mistake. I asumed they meant the one after the very first one, since John Foxx is talking.

[TheMercyBeat]

OK.

[MrsRhythmNation]

@jamesyireland *put the lyrics

[impossiblefunky]

Wow. Gary Numan didn't age well.

[LaibachKunst]

Hehe, strange, because I was thinking about how he looks even better these days than in the 80's. :-)

[guywholikesvids]

@impossiblefunky He's aged well in terms of stage performance, back then he would just stay still, but now hes SO energectic! But his music is VERY different now!

[impossiblefunky]

For some reason this chapter keeps crapping out on me.

[synthwerk]

I love how nice of a home they make and yet we all know what the inside of Cosey's vagina looks like.

[eusurfer]

whats the tune playing at the very start. kind of reminds me of raymond scott but i take it its john foxx

[TheMercyBeat]

Yep. It's John Foxx all the way indeed. But can't remember the tune as it's been a while since I've listened to his records. Will have to go through them all again and then tell you which one exactly it is. The one to follow is "Underpass", though.

[Oscar301]

John Peel - a fukn legend

[heyerdom]

you british people have so much great stuff on regular mainstream TV, very cool doku!

[hynsonandnash]

@heyerdom Thanks Heyerdom. That's because we have the BBC - no adverts and no sponsorship of programmes so it can be far more adventurous when it come to programme-making.

[doktorsawade]

As if TG were just chris and cosey... ha!

[Parkinson9999]

what's the song at 5:20, anyone knows? thanx in advance.

[TheMercyBeat]

It is Fad Gadget's "Back To Nature". I love it too. :-) ;-)

[piedrada]

I'm surprised Martin Rushent is absent from this doc ... he was one of the best producers of synth pop and certainly gave Human League a great sound in their post "Dare" years.

[ArtyGirlZiggy15]

perhaps he wasn't available to talk. He might have been working in studio at the time.

[piedrada]

He had a falling away with the Human League so I wouldn't be surprised if his absence is related to that.

[TheMercyBeat]

Rushent was/is one of the finest producers to emerge ever. I love his production work on the releases other than synth-pop such as the ones by the likes of the Stranglers, Buzzcocks and XTC, for example as well. Sad he left record production early, after an alleged altercation with Susanne Sulley (The Human League) at his own studio during the early '80s. .-(

[bryngOneOn]

do you think gary numan would have been a bigger icon if he didnt have a side parting hair style. it's odd, as he obviously understood all about presentation and image for shifting units, but why not something more ,errr,i dunno, more fitting, maybe the side parting was saying something, some comment on some thing establishment, but it went straight over my head back then, the haircut he had in the 90's more punky would have shifted more posters for bedroom walls of students but what do i know?

[000michaelb000]

i reckon he was trying his upmost to appear completely robotic. nobody could have a haircut that bad without a solid reason

[thechosenone2211]

ive started to go down the road of 80s synth music and im only 16 lol

i wish i could buy a minimoog

: (

but i saving for a korg r3

[MagnitudePerson]

I've just been 16 1-2-1 half month ago and i was into this dince i was 13, you're not unique, your just not a retarded pop-media mainstreamer-retard.

Undergr0000und!!!!!

[thechosenone2211]

Ive been into it since i was like tiny because my dad would always listen to Gary numan but he also had a great cd called new wave which had some great hits and im not saying im unique i just thinks its better music than friggin lady ga ga and all that other crap i just am old enough now and have a job to save up for a synth so i can not just listen but create it and thnks for the reply MAGNITUDEPERSON ive subscribed to you : )

[MagnitudePerson]

I agree, if i want music i listen to then i justm ake it myslef, then i can make my own perfect cusotmable "genre" but i do allso listen to unique and original peoples into undergroundm usic(Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Front Line Assembly just to name few) gotta give em credit, literally ;)

[bryngOneOn]

why waste your money on 8o's bits of kit, theres a million and one repros that are just as good, for under a .$1000 you can buy one of those vintage synth modules, maybe 500 second hand and theyre better as you can take the sound of one of the synths and run it through the oscillator software of a different synth, plus its all going to be midi so if you buy an old synth your only going to have to end up sampling what you've created to run it through modern sequencing software.

[000michaelb000]

dude u can never beat the warmth in the sound of an early 80's synth. I record analogue synths straight to audio in logic, and the only thing i rarely do is quantize. Whats so fucking hard about that? u probably think vst recreations of classic synths r better yeah... wanker

[bryngOneOn]

i think if you are a millioniare of have unlimited funds then i agree with you, but you gotta get the most bang for buck, if you've only say two analogue styths then your better off buying a digital module for creativity, you make me giggle, your on about warmth and then you wack quantise on your mix taking away a degree of human warmth, quantise okay for drum parts but is very limiting, b4 u say i havnt been into all this for 20 years

[connieplankghost]

Gary Numan Looks a bit less Enigmatic and evasive than he used to look back in those days.

The 1970s-80s i mean, you know?

[Jiveturkey68]

Neat video great bands but, the Fad Gadget section was way to short; it was like 5 seconds at most.

[the0Theo]

Completely AGREE. Fad Gadget is one of the most interesting sounds of this era. More more more please.

[noizy4]

3:20 onward is "Hot on the Heels of Love" - Throbbing Gristle.

[gorpishalamorpish]

What's the song going on during 3:20 on for a bit...Throbbing Gristle, I should know, it sounds amazing.

[DerVampyrEngel]

For electronic Music, especially cool dark electronic music, yeah it was a very cool decade, Numan and Foxx especially so

[LexRyuzaki]

Gay Numan is a genius and a genuine guy too, 80's synth was the best peak of music.

[Oscar301]

you opened that statement with a Freudian slip :)

[JarrodCook93]

@LexRyuzaki

UMMMMM I think u mean Gary* Numan