recommend me some over-the-top, arty '80s fairlight/synclavier stuff

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reference points: the dreaming, jazz from hell

― the happy smile patrol (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 September 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

I think there's some Henry Kaiser synclavier stuff.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 26 September 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel, Security/IV

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 September 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

graeme revell - the insect musicians

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 26 September 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Mister Heartbreak - Laurie Anderson

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

The first couple of Coil records are pretty Fairlight heavy..

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Thomas Leer-The Scale of Ten
Propaganda-A Secret Wish
The Art of Noise-Who's Affraid of the Art of Noise

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 26 September 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

Jane Siberry - The Speckless Sky

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

haha i have a lot of these! but they're great recommendations; keep 'em coming.

― faith popcorn (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

'full metal jacket' ost

― N_RQ, Monday, 26 September 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

The best electronic early Happy Rhodes, which reminds me more of The Dreaming than anything else ever has (or perhaps more accurately "Breathing" meets early Bel Canto meets early Eurythmics) - search "Because I Learn", "Baby Don't Go", "The Issue Is", "Dreams Are", "He's Alive", "I'm Not Awake, I'm Not Asleep", "Poetic Justice", "Look For The Child"... all recorded on marvellously portentous, icy synthesisers. If I had to recommend a single album I'd say Rearmament.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 26 September 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

Larry Fast - Metropolitan Suite
John Adams - Hoodoo Zephyr
Second the Coil, with the addition that most of their albums are crazy keyboard workouts, thinking of Love's Secret Domain, Moon's Milk, Musick to Play in the Dark, etc etc.
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Magnetic Fields
Tangerine Dream - 1970-1979
Would Tonto's Expanding Head Band count here?

― Brakhage (brakhage), Monday, 26 September 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Andrew Poppy ? his ZTT stuff has just been reissued in glorious packaging - lots of fairlight action across 3 cds.

'the amusement' (full length version) is wonderful .. something he never surpassed imo.

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 26 September 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Icehouse - Measure to Measure album

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Check out these pics of Ministry's Fairlights. Unfortunately the photos on the ebay pages are all gone but there are still a couple up here...

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/07/ebay-of-day-2-ministrys-old-fairlights.html

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

scritti's cupid and psyche is a massive fairlight record isn't it?

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

did you get this, jody? (someone posted the link on noise ysi)

http://dueren.waldorfian.info/

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

it doesn't fit your request that closely but it's terriffic.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Liza Minnelli Results

― Pablo (Pablo), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Two words: Harold Faltermeyer.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 26 September 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

1984 Scoring The Equalizer
on Fairlight Page R! pic.twitter.com/9AIUdfj1EA
— Stewart Copeland (@copelandmusic) April 23, 2021

― too cool for zen talk (Eazy), Friday, 23 April 2021 18:10 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQJU_brn-GU

― xzanfar, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:57 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgN4fmKAMjw

― xzanfar, Friday, 23 April 2021 18:59 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SHh6zOb1iQ

― xzanfar, Friday, 23 April 2021 19:12 (five years ago)

oh but "sound system" is where herbie really takes off with the fairlight

― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:51 (five years ago)

David Van Tieghem's 'Safety In Numbers' is cool and features Ryuichi Sakamoto on Fairlight

― one time gaffled 'em up (one time), Saturday, 24 April 2021 20:11 (five years ago)

have always thought that this had to involve a fairlight even though i have no real evidence of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9ZQ4RPhiU

― mark e, Saturday, 24 April 2021 20:23 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Just passed through the Australian town from which the Fairlight got its name!

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 January 2023 03:42 (three years ago)

I hope you had a swim!

― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Monday, 2 January 2023 09:04 (three years ago)

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