Synths in Yarbrough and Peoples "Don't Stop the Music"

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does anyone in here know what kind of keyboards and Drum Machine did Yarbrough and Peoples used to make the song "Don't Stop the Music" back in 1980. I know that the drum machine wasnt a Linn or an Oberheim because they didnt have those back then.

― startrekman, Thursday, 17 March 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god i love this song, only found out about it recently thanks to that 'songs with chipmunks vocals' thread. that creeping bassline gets me every time and 'just because it's 2 o clock / dont mean that we have to stop' is everything i could ever ask for from a lyric. has anyone ever heard this out in a club? how did it go down? i imagine it'd be mindblowing but then again i live in nobheadland where all the guys look like bobby o and all the girls look dress & dance like the two girls from Indeep.

'i wouldn't lie to you' is also superb, VERY SOS Band-like. please tell me any interesting things about them and what other songs should be heard.

(dear synthtrekguy, i am sorry i do not know what the synths are on this track but WHY do you want to know??)

― Affectian ., Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I ALWAYS play this in my DJ sets. Every single time. People love it.

No idea what kinda synths they use, though.

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello Xeddy. I shall most certainly be playing this song when DJing in Manchester in the next few weeks and months. What is the age-range, dress-sense and drug-intake of your crowd? And how do they dance? (perhaps post a small mpeg of you re-enacting their moves?)

Actually, you keep popping up on all the threads about songs/acts I love, can you post a playlist from a typical DJ set of yours? I will most probably rip it off.

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha, the people who watch me DJ are all beer-drinking David Allen Coe fans in their 40s like me (okay, not all of them, but still.) They dress pretty well but I have way better cowboy shirts than them.

The scope of my DJ sets is touched upon, but not limited to, what is discussed on the following thread (for instance I definitely plan to play at least one song each by the Babys and Jethro Tull next time):

the return of DJ Edelweiss

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw that thread recently and thought it was something to do with that KLF-inspired 'Bring me Edelweiss' track from 1987, didn't realise it was you (other Edelweiss is pretty great also).

My crowd is probably less than half the age of yours. If this whole post-disco pre-house sound takes off in Manchester then I shall surely give you some 'props'.

As for your playlist, I'm with Stevem in wanting a typical track for those genres, but mostly these ones:

fuzzdance Italodisco
hi-NRG electro-punk
proto-Eurodisco bongo-rock
high school science-fair synthcore
teenybop no wave
popping-and-locking Zulu wildstyle space-cowboy western-gangster-town hip hop bommi bop
drunken frat-soul with parties going on in the background

― Affectian (Affectian), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh heck, pretty much any random track by Naif Orchestra, Barrabas, Chrome, Der Plan, Trickeration, or the Swinging Medallions would fit those categories, wouldn't it? (Or maybe not.)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(and oops, I left out Telex. Or Yello. Or Stacy Lattisaw. Or Diesel. Or the Iron City Houserockers. Or Pajama Party. Or R. B. Greaves. Or somebody. Sorry!)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the Billboard Book of No. 1 Rhythm & Blues Hits, the demo was written using a Roland CR78 drum machine. Presumably, that's the same machine as on the final track. No word on what the synths are, but I'd guess Roland Juno.

― jdconsidine, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I also guess an OBX, and a Mini-Moog was probably used. For the drum, probably a LinnDrum.

― Startrekman, Friday, 18 March 2005 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

fuzzdance Italodisco
"Happy Station (Scratch Mix)" - Fun Fun

hi-NRG electro-punk
"Cccan't You See" - Vicious Pink

proto-Eurodisco bongo-rock
"The Best Part Of Breaking Up" - Roni Griffith

high school science-fair synthcore
"Strange Time" - B Troop

teenybop no wave
"Favorite Sweater" - The Y-Pants

popping-and-locking Zulu wildstyle space-cowboy western-gangster-town
hip hop bommi bop
"Soul Makossa" - Nairobi (rap version feat. Awesome Foursome)

drunken frat-soul with parties going on in the background
"Fungi Mama" - Tom Browne

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 18 March 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I know that the drum machine wasnt a Linn or an Oberheim because they didnt have those back then.

Human League did use a Linn on the "Dare" album only a year later, but maybe that was a pioneer model then?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Human League did use a Linn on the "Dare" album only a year later, but maybe that was a pioneer model then?

The Linn LM1 was introduced in 1979. It was fairly rare (only 500 were made) and quite expensive, but got a good amount of studio use in Britain. The more famous Linn Drum went on the market in 1982.

― jdconsidine, Friday, 18 March 2005 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually a few people managed to get a Linn... Lionel Richie, George Benson, Micheal Jackson, Prince, Bar-Kays.

― startrekman, Saturday, 19 March 2005 03:48 (twenty-one years ago)

This song is an absolute no-holds-barred classic. Thanks for mentioning it.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Saturday, 19 March 2005 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

The video for this song is a bit dreadful. Horrible haircuts, wide dim smiles and fucking sock puppets doing the chipmunk vocals bit.

Most killer moment in this song comes about 1min 40 secs in, when she goes "I got a love song, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa" and *that* riff slams back in.

Ffirehorse, you know anything else by them? 'I wouldn't lie (to you)' is well worth a listen.

― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, 19 March 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You don't really wanna stop? Nooooooooo!

Classic!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 March 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

^ geir def as eff

― and what, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:39 (seventeen years ago)

The video for this song is a bit dreadful. Horrible haircuts, wide dim smiles and fucking sock puppets doing the chipmunk vocals bit.

THIS CANNOT BE HORRIBLE BY DEFINITION

― Mackro Mackro, Thursday, 26 June 2008 22:55 (seventeen years ago)

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