Programme 4 - The 1980s

Sunday January 4th

Programme 4 - The 1980s

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Tonight we hear the first computer-controlled synthesisers with 8" floppy discs: the Fairlight and the Synclavier, and Frank Zappa's pioneering use of the latter. Canadian composer Paul Dolden's 400-track 'Beyond the Walls of Jericho', a physically exhilarating multi-layered mass of sound. Pop influences in ' Vienna' by Ultravox from 1981. We explore the beginnings of the democratisation of technology and how the term 'electronic music' began to have new meanings.

Playlist:

THEME MUSIC - ALAN KING - ALAN KING - COMPOSER'S OWN COPY

GHOSTS - JAPAN - JAPAN - VIRGIN/CAROLINE - 94636306124 - TIN DRUM

ONE OF OUR SUBMARINES - THOMAS DOLBY - THOMAS DOLBY - EMI - 7243 8 27642 2 9 - RETROSPECTACLE

BELOW THE WALLS OF JERICHO - PAUL DOLDEN - PAUL DOLDEN - EMPREINTES DIGITALES - IMED 0369 - SEUIL DE SILENCES

WHILE YOU WERE ART 2 - FRANK ZAPPA - FRANK ZAPPA -BARKING PUMPKIN RECORDS - TCEMC 3521 - JAZZ FROM HELL