Ryuichi Sakamoto & his Fairlight 1984

Ryuichi Sakamoto being interviewed by Jools Holland on The Tube.
Ryuichi is demonstrating his Fairlight CMI.

Never mind the fact that this video is out of sync...

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Music

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• Ryuichi
• Sakamoto
• Fairlight
• CMI

[chiefie11]

nope not 5.25" they are 8"

[hatebadmusic]

Ryuichi Sakamoto is a genius; get Yellow Magic Orchestra's first 1978 self-titled album. Absolutely before it's time.

[rb1a1ba]

Jools should get Sakamoto on his 'Later' show!

By the way, what's the name of the song at the end? I presume it's on the soundtrack?

[waheex]

I think the fairlight and it's ilk are superb even now. People often say how out dated the samplers are today, so what, they had quality musical design. Todays stuff is going to look like a joke in 25 years. "what you used a mouse and a keyboard" then they would piss themselves laughing. These old samplers were just that, samplers. Today I think most so called samplers, seem to no more than sample playback machines. Kontakt etc are great for library playback but cannot sample as far as I know.

[KARKUSisususiuscDMK]

"*sigh* Japanese" WTF?

[bootray]

@FairCityFourEver That's kind of how all technology is.

[curszondax]

it was amazing for it's time.

i recoded some stuff back in the 80s. the band i was with at that time, used a fairlight cmi which belonged to producer Trevor horn of the Buggles.

the orchestral string sounds of the fairlight completely blew us away.

for those people that could afford the £60.000 price tag it was well worth it.

a friend of mine sold his old fairlight for £2000.

personally i think he should have kept it, but he needed the money.

[ApolloBoy]

You're comparing 1979 technology to mid-1990s technology, so obviously the Fairlight isn't as capable as a Korg Triton or the like.

[adey231]

I quite agree with pighoglet jools holland is a smug f**k and i can never understand a word he says "stop f**king mumbling man!!!"

[pighoglet]

jools holland then was a smug t*** , this parallels when he visited the Police in Monserat and p***** them off as well!

Totally sums up the 80s

Great to hear the clip but Jools is making me cringe :)

[3dcandy]

Ahhh Rydeen to start, and ORCH5 to end...pure class!