Tuesday 19 July 2016

Howard Jones - Human's Lib (1984 very early usage of FM)



Here is an interesting one. Digital FM Synth and Analog Subtractive Synth are being forced in to one delightful track, in the year where all things collide. My favourite year for music: 1984.

FM had become commercially available in 1983, but there were still all of these killer analog synths that already cost a ton of money still in studios. So, FM was the new toy, but it was treated just like a new instrument in the setup and was seamlessly blended in, for a while. That's why I like 1984 so much. It was a very exciting time for sound. And a song like this shows how you can just blend everything together with wide eyed wonder.

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