Music Arcade - Radiophonic Workshop 4

[kingofkeyboards]

someone show them kids a laptop. then they'd at least smile. how dare they be so unenthusiastic about a Fairlight lol :)

[brianrenate]

Thanks for posting.

Why so many patronizing comments??

Is it only those of us over forty that realize how much technology has advanced in such a short time?

[diezdiazgiant]

such a small computer...

[funkberto]

@diezdiazgiant

Is the FAIRLIGHT CMI

''the First Digital Sampler'', was australian.

[diezdiazgiant]

@funkberto

i know i was being sarcastic about its tiny stature...

[equinoxe67yahoo]

ma ke bel peot!

[dwightddddd]

Ha ha £30,000, I remember going to Syco Systems and dreaming of owning one, and telling my parents that they should sell the house so I could follow my dreams,my arse was the response from my dad ,. cool vid thanks for posting.

[JilakataTV]

Thanks for upoading this rare, historical document.

Brgds from Berlin

[Elementodi]

Did he really said that the box that was his computer was smaller than other computers ?? I don't imagine other computers then !

[sleestack808]

fairlights were so expensive those kids shouldn't have been allowed to even be in the same room with one. Let alone even look at it

[RobMunro1]

@sleestack808 i wonder if any of these kids remember in the same room as a Fairlight CMI now.....no probably not.

[RobMunro1]

@RobMunro1 i can just imagine a really stressed floor manager shouting at the kids "Right you little Bastards, DONT TOUCH THE KEYBOARD"

[shoemanbundy]

I like how they all stand around in awkwardness while his voice is playing that crappy song :p

[LeonardRockstein]

Looks like a clunky old Fairlight sampling Synthesiser.

Got to love these old examples of BBC kids programming....so cutesy and polite ..makes me fill kind of ill really LOL

[barttheanorak]

It is a Fairlight. I remember the rest of the programme from when we watched it in the school hall in '85.

I was getting excited just because they were playing the Doctor Who music, and the girl next to me was telling me to get a life.

[TheCompanyRules]

ahhhhh childhood memories.

[PhobiaGuy]

CLASSIC!! to think, my mobile phone is a more powerful computer, HA HA

"hey look I can do this...N N N N NINETEEN" (sorry kids you have to have been around in the eighties to get that one)

[Zenodilodon]

C:/dos

C:/dos run

run dos run!

[rhplanettelex]

smashy smashy? me want smashy stupid old computer

[Zenodilodon]

Anti beige Alliance!!!

[renegadesoundwaves]

those kids look bored shitless:)

[paulbrockenhagen]

"There is a picture of 'DOO' on the screen! DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[electro808]

Where can i buy that tune?

[rhplanettelex]

lol

[johnvile]

Classic. those kids look like there trying to choose between glee and terror.

[synthisist]

FAIRLIGHT

[UncleFeedle]

I'd say the Mellotron and Chamberlain were more like the first romplers. They played sampled sounds but you couldn't actually grab sounds with them out of the box like you could with the Fairlight.

[ajs41]

I'm guessing this from about 1982 - does anyone know the exact date it was first broadcast?

[AnalogX]

I love the part "the computer section is rather small from what you'd expect from a computer" hehehe.

[DarkMewX]

lol now its 4x smaller!

[Zenodilodon]

and with half the calories.

[UncleFeedle]

Peter Howell was to music what Tony Hart was to art.

[jalabi99]

Whatever happened to Tony Hart? And was it just me, or did he look a hell of a lot like Benny Hill or what? :)

[UncleFeedle]

As far as I know, he's still around, although you don't see him on TV much.

[higzog]

That stuff's pretty high-tech you guys!!!!

[UncleFeedle]

The first sampler and the first workstation! The Fairlight was often demonstrated as the future of music on educational and science programmes. It's other appearances include Sesame Street. Fantastic, historic stuff!

[harryshand]

A computer that plays music? Whatever next?!?

[ulrikemeinhof]

That's a fairlight keyboard. Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, and a pretty well endless list of artists used this in the beginning...

[PimpinBassie]

also an enless price..