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Fairlight CMI

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The Fairlight CMI (short for Computer Musical Instrument) is a digital synthesizer, sampler and digital audio workstation introduced in 1979 by the founders of Fairlight, Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie, — with links to some Fairlight history and photos developed based on the commercial license of Qasar M8 dual-MC6800 microprocessor musical instrument originally developed by Tony Furse of Creative Strategies in Sydney, Australia. [1]

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Walters, John Paul Jones (musician), Jon Anderson, Jon Astley, Joni Mitchell, Julian Lennon, Kate Bush, Keith Emerson, Keyboard (magazine), Kids in the Kitchen, Kim Wilde, Klaus Doldinger, Klaus Schulze, Landscape (band), Lawrence Gowan, Les Chants Magnétiques, Les Concerts en Chine, Light pen, Lindsey Buckingham, Linear timecode, Liquid Sky, Loose Ends (band), Loverboy, Low-pass filter, MADI, Madness (band), Madonna (entertainer), Malcolm McLaren, Mark Mothersbaugh, Mecano, Mellotron, Miami Vice, Miami Vice Theme, Michael Jackson, MIDI, Miguel Bosé, Mike Cotten, Mike Oldfield, Ministry (band), Morgan Cryar, Motorola, Motorola 6800, Motorola 68000, Motorola 6809, MP3, Mr. Mister, Music sequencer, Music workstation, Mutato Muzika, Naked Eyes, NAMM Show, National Film and Sound Archive, Naughty by Nature, Neneh Cherry, Never for Ever, New England Digital, New Musik, New Scientist, Nick Rhodes, Nik Kershaw, No Jacket Required, Orchestra hit, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Paul Davis (singer), Paula Abdul, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel (1980 album), Peter Gabriel (1982 album), Peter Howell (musician), Peter Vogel (computer designer), Petra (band), Phantom power, Phil Collins, Physical modelling synthesis, Polyphony and monophony in instruments, Pooh (band), Port Jackson, Pound sterling, Powerhouse Museum, Prince (musician), Priscilla McLean, Programming (music), Public Image Ltd, Punk rock, Quantization (music), Queen (band), QWERTY, R.E.M., Rain Man, Rammstein, Reed Business Information, Rhett Lawrence, Richard James Burgess, Richard Wright (musician), Rick van der Linden, Rick Wakeman, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Rockwell (musician), Roger Daltrey, Roger Nichols (recording engineer), Roger Waters, Roland Romanelli, Romeo's Daughter, Rush (band), Ryuichi Sakamoto, S/PDIF, Sampler (musical instrument), Sampling (music), Scritti Politti, Sesame Street, Shakatak, Shock the Monkey, Shona Laing, Shout (Devo album), Skinny Puppy, SMPTE timecode, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Sound on Sound, Sounds of Australia, Sparks (band), Spencer Nilsen, SPK (band), Stanley Jordan, Ste van Holm, Steve Winwood, Stevie Wonder, Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants", Stewart Copeland, Stock Aitken Waterman, Styx (band), Supertramp, Suzanne Vega, Sydney, Synclavier, Synthesizer, Tasmin Archer, Tears for Fears, Techno, Ted Nugent, Teddy Riley, Telex (band), The Alan Parsons Project, The B-52's, The Beach Boys, The Blue Nile, The Buggles, The Cars, The Church (band), The Garden (John Foxx album), The Golden Section, The Human League, The Killing Fields (album), The Police, The Psychedelic Furs, The Reflex, The Register, The South Bank Show, The Tear Garden, The Village (studio), The Young Gods, They Might Be Giants, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Timbrality, Timothy Leary, Todd Rundgren, Tomorrow's World, Tony Mansfield, Top of the Pops, Trevor Horn, Triumph (band), U2, Under Wraps (Jethro Tull album), Underscoring, USB, Vibrato, Vince Clarke, Vince DiCola, Vivian Kubrick, Vorbis, Wang Chung (band), We're All Devo, Whispering Jack, White Noise (band), William S. 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A-ha

A-ha (usually stylized as a-ha) is a Norwegian band formed in Oslo in 1982.

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ABC (band)

ABC are an English pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.

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ABC Online

ABC Online is the brand name in Australia for the online services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, managed by ABC Innovation.

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About Face (album)

About Face is the second solo album by the English musician David Gilmour.

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Additive synthesis

Additive synthesis is a sound synthesis technique that creates timbre by adding sine waves together.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor; April 17, 1957) is an American disc jockey, singer, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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Akai

Akai (アカイ) is a consumer electronics brand name.

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Al Di Meola

Al Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American jazz, jazz fusion, and world music guitarist.

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Al Jourgensen

Allen David "Al" Jourgensen (born Alejandro Ramírez Casas; October 9, 1958) is a Cuban-American singer-songwriter, musician and music producer.

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Alan Parsons

Alan Parsons (born 20 December 1948) is an English audio engineer, songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor whose career spans over fifty years.

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All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes

All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes is the third official solo album by English rock musician and songwriter Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who.

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Allan Holdsworth

Allan Holdsworth (6 August 1946 – 15 April 2017) was a British guitarist and composer.

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Analog synthesizer

An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.

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Analog-to-digital converter

In electronics, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC, A/D, or A-to-D) is a system that converts an analog signal, such as a sound picked up by a microphone or light entering a digital camera, into a digital signal.

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Andrew Garton

Andrew Richard Matthew Garton (born 19 May 1962) is a creative producer, musician and media artist working within community and cultural development fields in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

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Anti-aliasing

Anti-aliasing may refer to any of a number of techniques to combat the problems of aliasing in a sampled signal such as a digital image or digital audio recording.

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ANU School of Music

The ANU School of Music is a school in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, which forms part of the College of Arts and Social Sciences of the Australian National University.

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Arcadia (band)

Arcadia were a new wave British group formed in 1985 by Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, and Roger Taylor of Duran Duran as a side project during a break in that band's schedule.

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Arista Records

Arista Records, Inc. was a major American record label.

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Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica Linz GmbH is an Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute active in the field of new media art, founded in Linz in 1979.

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Art of Noise

Art of Noise (also The Art of Noise) were an English avant-garde synth-pop group formed in early 1983 by engineer/producer Gary Langan and programmer J. J. Jeczalik, along with arranger Anne Dudley, producer Trevor Horn and music journalist Paul Morley.

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Asia (band)

Asia are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1981.

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Atari ST

The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australia Council for the Arts

The Australia Council for the Arts, informally known as the Australia Council, is the official arts council or arts funding body of the Government of Australia.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a national research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Azul y Negro

Azul y Negro is a Spanish synthpop music duo that was founded in 1981 by Carlos García-Vaso, a multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer, and Joaquin Montoya: (b. 1950 Cartagena).

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Babyface (musician)

Kenneth Brian Edmonds (born April 10, 1959), known professionally as Babyface, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Bad Company

Bad Company are an English hard rock supergroup formed in Westminster, London in 1973 by two former Free band members—singer Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke— as well as Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs and King Crimson bassist Boz Burrell.

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Baltimora

Baltimora was an Italian music project active in the 1980s.

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Bandwidth (signal processing)

Bandwidth is the difference between the upper and lower frequencies in a continuous band of frequencies.

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Barton McLean

Barton McLean (born 8 April 1938) is an American composer, performer, music reviewer, and writer.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radiophonic Workshop

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television.

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Big beat

Big beat is an electronic music genre that usually uses heavy breakbeats and synthesizer-generated loops and patterns – common to acid house/techno.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; 21 January 1950) is a Trinidadian-English recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Bob Clearmountain

Bob Clearmountain is an American music engineer, mixer and producer.

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Boz Burrell

Raymond "Boz" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician.

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Brad Fiedel

Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951) is a retired American composer for film and television.

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Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno, RDI (born Brian Peter George Eno; 15 May 1948) is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, writer, and visual artist.

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Brian Wilson

Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded <!-- DO NOT CAPITALIZE -->the Beach Boys.

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Bruno Spoerri

Bruno Alexander Spoerri (born 16 August 1935) is a Swiss jazz and electronics musician.

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Bryan Adams

Bryan Guy Adams, (born 5 November 1959) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer, guitarist, photographer, philanthropist and activist.

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Buffalo Stance

"Buffalo Stance" is a 1988 single recorded by Neneh Cherry, which she released on her debut album, Raw Like Sushi. The song peaked at No.

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Cabaret Voltaire (band)

Cabaret Voltaire are an English music group formed in Sheffield in 1973 and initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk, and Chris Watson.

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Chaz Jankel

Charles Jeremy Jankel (born 16 April 1952), better known as Chaz Jankel, is an English singer, songwriter, arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Chicago (band)

Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois, calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority in 1968 before shortening the name in 1970.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Chris Lowe

Christopher Sean Lowe (born 4 October 1959) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and co-founder of the synthpop duo Pet Shop Boys which he formed with Neil Tennant in 1981.

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Clan of Xymox

Clan of Xymox, also known as simply Xymox, are a Dutch rock band formed in 1981.

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Coil (band)

Coil were an English experimental music group, founded in 1982 by John Balance in London.

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Compiler

A compiler is computer software that transforms computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another programming language (the target language).

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Computer keyboard

In computing, a computer keyboard is a typewriter-style device which uses an arrangement of buttons or keys to act as mechanical levers or electronic switches.

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Computer performance

Computer performance is the amount of work accomplished by a computer system.

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CV/gate

CV/gate (an abbreviation of control voltage/gate) is an analog method of controlling synthesizers, drum machines and other similar equipment with external sequencers.

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Dalbello

Lisa Dal Bello (born 22 May 1959), also known as Dalbello, is a Canadian recording artist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and voice actress.

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Daniel Balavoine

Daniel Balavoine (5 February 1952 – 14 January 1986), also known as Bala and "french chayanne", was a French singer and songwriter.

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Darren Hayes

Darren Stanley Hayes (born 8 May 1972) is an Australian singer-songwriter, and podcaster.

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David Bowie

David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer-songwriter and actor.

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David Foster

David Walter Foster, OC, OBC (born November 1, 1949), is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger.

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David Gilmour

David Jon Gilmour, (born 6 March 1946) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter best known as a longtime member of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd.

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Debbie Gibson

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress.

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Def Leppard

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement.

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Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic band formed in Basildon, Essex in 1980.

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Devo

Devo (originally) is an American rock band from Akron, Ohio formed in 1973.

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Digital synthesizer

A digital synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to make musical sounds.

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Digital-to-analog converter

In electronics, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC, D/A, D2A, or D-to-A) is a system that converts a digital signal into an analog signal.

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Dire Straits

Dire Straits were a British rock band formed in London in 1977 by Mark Knopfler (lead vocals and lead guitar), David Knopfler (rhythm guitar and backing vocals), John Illsley (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Pick Withers (drums and percussion).

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Dollar (band)

Dollar were a pop vocal duo from the UK, consisting of David Van Day and Canadian-born Thereza Bazar.

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Don Banks

Donald Oscar Banks (25 October 19235 September 1980) was an Australian composer of concert, jazz, and commercial music.

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Drama (Yes album)

Drama is the tenth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 18 August 1980 by Atlantic Records.

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Drum and bass

Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.

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Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English new wave and synthpop band formed in Birmingham in 1978.

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E-mu Emulator

The Emulator is the name given the series of digital sampling synthesizers using floppy disk storage, manufactured by E-mu Systems from 1981 until the 1990s.

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E-mu Systems

E-MU Systems was a software synthesizer, audio interface, MIDI interface, and MIDI keyboard manufacturer.

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Ebn Ozn

Ēbn-Ōzn (pronounced EEBEN-OHZEN) was a 1980s New York based synth pop duo composed of Ned "Ebn" Liben (synthesizer) and Robert "Ozn" Rosen (organ, vocals).

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Eddie Jobson

Edwin "Eddie" Jobson (born 28 April 1955) is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers.

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Electronics Today International

Electronics Today International or ETI was a magazine for electronics hobbyists and professionals.

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Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American major record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt.

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Elements – The Best of Mike Oldfield (video)

Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield is a video collection by Mike Oldfield released in October 1993.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Elvis Costello

Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), better known by his stage name Elvis Costello, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, author, television presenter, and occasional actor.

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Ensoniq

Ensoniq Corp. was an American electronics manufacturer, best known throughout the mid-1980s and 1990s for its musical instruments, principally samplers and synthesizers.

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Ensoniq Mirage

The Ensoniq Mirage is one of the earliest affordable sampler-synths, introduced in 1984.

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Ermington, New South Wales

Ermington is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Eros Ramazzotti

Eros Walter Luciano Ramazzotti (born 28 October 1963) is an Italian musician and singer-songwriter.

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Eurythmics

Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.

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Eye in the Sky (album)

Eye in the Sky is the sixth studio album by English rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in June 1982 by Arista Records.

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Fairlight (company)

Fairlight is a digital audio company based in Sydney.

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Fast Fourier transform

A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm that samples a signal over a period of time (or space) and divides it into its frequency components.

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Fatar

Fatar is an Italian supplier of keyboards for digital pianos, synthesizers and organs, based in Recanati, Italy.

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Fhána

Fhána (stylized as fhána) is a four-member Japanese pop band that formed in 2012 as an indie band.

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Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.

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Foetus (band)

Foetus is the primary musical outlet of JG Thirlwell.

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Folkways Records

Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.

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Foreigner (band)

Foreigner is an English-American rock band, originally formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones ex-Spooky Tooth and fellow Briton and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm.

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Fortran

Fortran (formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

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Franco Battiato

Francesco "Franco" Battiato (born 23 March 1945, Ionia, Sicily) is an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, filmmaker and, under the pseudonym Süphan Barzani, also a painter.

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Frank Farian

Frank Farian (born Franz Reuther 18 July 1941, Kirn, Germany) is a German record producer and songwriter, best known as the founder and voice behind the 1970s' disco-pop group Boney M. and as the mastermind and voice behind the lip-synching group Milli Vanilli.

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Frequency response

Frequency response is the quantitative measure of the output spectrum of a system or device in response to a stimulus, and is used to characterize the dynamics of the system.

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Geoff Downes

Geoffrey "Geoff" Downes (born 25 August 1952) is an English musician, songwriter, and record producer and keyboardist in the new wave group The Buggles with Trevor Horn, the progressive rock band Yes, and the supergroup Asia.

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Geordie Hormel

George "Geordie" Hormel (July 17, 1928 – February 12, 2006) was a musician and recording studio proprietor.

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Graphics tablet

A graphic tablet (also known as a digitizer, drawing tablet, digital drawing tablet, pen tablet, or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, with a special pen-like stylus, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper.

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Hall & Oates

Daryl Hall and John Oates, often referred to as Hall & Oates, are an American musical duo.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and record producer.

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Harmonic

A harmonic is any member of the harmonic series, a divergent infinite series.

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Heaven 17

Heaven 17 are an English new wave and synth-pop band that formed in Sheffield in 1980.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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How to Destroy Angels (band)

How to Destroy Angels (HTDA) is a musical group consisting of Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor (both from Nine Inch Nails), Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig and Rob Sheridan.

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Howard Jones (English musician)

John Howard Jones (born 23 February 1955) is a British singer, musician and songwriter.

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Hubert Bognermayr

Hubert Bognermayr (6 April 1948 &ndash; 17 March 1999), was an Austrian composer and pioneer of electronic music.

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Hydrofoil

A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water.

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Ice-T

Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), better known by his stage name Ice-T, is an American musician, rapper, songwriter, actor, record executive, record producer, and author.

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Icehouse (band)

Icehouse are an Australian rock band, formed as Flowers in Sydney in 1977.

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Identity (Zee album)

Identity is the only album by Zee, a short-lived side project of Pink Floyd keyboardist Rick Wright, a duo partnership consisting of Wright and Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984.

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Interdata

Interdata, Inc., was a computer company, founded in 1966 by a former Electronics Associates engineer, Daniel Sinnott, and was based in Oceanport, New Jersey.

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IOS

iOS (formerly iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

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IPad

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

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IPhone

iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPhone line of products use Apple's iOS mobile operating system software.

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IPod Touch

The iPod Touch (stylized and marketed as iPod touch) is an iOS-based all-purpose mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface.

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Iva Davies

Ivor Arthur Davies, AM (born 22 May 1955), known professionally as Iva Davies, is an Australian singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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J. J. Jeczalik

Jonathan Edward Stephen "J.J." Jeczalik (born 11 May 1955) is an electronic musician/record producer, co-founder of the electronic music group, the Art of Noise.

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James Stroud

James Stroud (born July 4, 1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, R&B, soul, disco, and country music.

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Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer.

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Jane Child

Jane Richman (born 15 February 1967), known professionally as Jane Child, is a Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer best known for her hit single "Don't Wanna Fall in Love".

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Japan (band)

Japan were an English band formed in 1974 in Catford, South London by David Sylvian (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Steve Jansen (drums), Richard Barbieri (keyboards) and Mick Karn (bass guitar).

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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Jeff Baxter

Jeffrey Allen "Skunk" Baxter (born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, known for his stints in the rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers during the 1970s and Spirit in the 1980s.

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Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

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Jermaine Jackson

Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and member of the Jackson family.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

James Samuel "Jimmy Jam" Harris III (born June 6, 1959) and Terry Steven Lewis (born November 24, 1956) are an American R&B songwriting and record production team.

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Joe Hisaishi

, known professionally as, is a Japanese composer and musical director known for over 100 film scores and solo albums dating back to 1981.

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John Farnham

John Peter Farnham AO (born 1 July 1949) is an Australian rock/soft rock singer.

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John Foxx

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh, 26 September 1947) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher.

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John L. Walters

John L. Walters (born 16 April 1953) is a British editor, musician, critic and composer.

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John Paul Jones (musician)

John Richard Baldwin (born 3 January 1946), better known by his stage name John Paul Jones, is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer.

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Jon Anderson

John Roy Anderson (born 25 October 1944), known professionally as Jon Anderson, is a British-American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he co-founded in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire.

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Jon Astley

Jon Astley is a British record producer who has also recorded and released two albums as a singer-songwriter in the late 1980s.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Julian Lennon

John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English musician and photographer.

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Kate Bush

Catherine "Kate" Bush (born 30 July 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, musician, dancer and record producer.

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Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson (2 November 1944 – 11 March 2016) was an English musician and composer.

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Keyboard (magazine)

Keyboard is a magazine that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and keyboardists, though with the advent of computer-based recording and audio technology, they have added digital music technology to their regular coverage, including those not strictly pertaining to the keyboard-related instruments.

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Kids in the Kitchen

Kids in the Kitchen were an Australian pop, funk and new wave band which formed in 1983.

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Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith; 18 November 1960) is an English pop singer, author, DJ and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with her debut single "Kids in America", which reached number two in the UK.

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Klaus Doldinger

Klaus Doldinger (born 12 May 1936) is a German saxophonist known for his work in jazz and as a film music composer.

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Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze (born 4 August 1947) is a German electronic music composer and musician.

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Landscape (band)

Landscape was an English synthpop band, best known for the 1981 hits "Einstein a Go-Go" and "Norman Bates".

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Lawrence Gowan

Lawrence Henry Gowan (born 22 November 1956) is a Scottish-born Canadian musician.

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Les Chants Magnétiques

Les Chants Magnétiques (English title: Magnetic Fields) is the fifth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus on 22 May 1981.

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Les Concerts en Chine

Les Concerts en Chine (English title: The Concerts in China) is a live album by Jean Michel Jarre, recorded in 1981 and released in 1982 on Disques Dreyfus.

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Light pen

A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction with a computer's CRT display.

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Lindsey Buckingham

Lindsey Adams Buckingham (born October 3, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer, best known as lead guitarist and one of the vocalists of the musical group Fleetwood Mac from 1975 to 1987, and then 1997 to 2018.

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Linear timecode

Linear (or Longitudinal) Timecode (LTC) is an encoding of SMPTE timecode data in an audio signal, as defined in SMPTE 12M specification.

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Liquid Sky

Liquid Sky is an independent American science fiction film directed by Slava Tsukerman and starring Anne Carlisle and Paula E. Sheppard.

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Loose Ends (band)

Loose Ends was a successful British R&B band that had several urban contemporary hits.

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Loverboy

Loverboy is a Canadian rock band formed in 1979 in Calgary, Alberta.

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Low-pass filter

A low-pass filter (LPF) is a filter that passes signals with a frequency lower than a certain cutoff frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies higher than the cutoff frequency.

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MADI

Multichannel Audio Digital Interface (MADI) or AES10 is an Audio Engineering Society (AES) standard that defines the data format and electrical characteristics of an interface that carries multiple channels of digital audio.

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Madness (band)

Madness are an English ska band from Camden Town, north London, who formed in 1976.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.

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Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (born May 18, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, author and visual artist.

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Mecano

Mecano was a Spanish pop band formed in 1981 and active until 1992.

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Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England, in 1963.

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Miami Vice

Miami Vice is an American television crime drama series created by Anthony Yerkovich and executive produced by Michael Mann for NBC.

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Miami Vice Theme

"Miami Vice Theme" is a musical piece composed and performed by Jan Hammer as the theme to the television series Miami Vice.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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MIDI

MIDI (short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, and related music and audio devices.

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Miguel Bosé

Luis Miguel González Bosé (born April 3, 1956), usually known as Miguel Bosé, is a Panamanian-born Spanish pop new wave musician and actor.

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Mike Cotten

Michael Barry Cotten (born December 12, 1939) is a former American football player who was the starting quarterback for the Texas Longhorns and the Quantico Marines in the early 1960s.

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Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English musician and composer.

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Ministry (band)

Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded in 1981 by Al Jourgensen in Chicago, Illinois.

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Morgan Cryar

Morgan Cryar is a contemporary Christian music vocalist, songwriter, and producer from Louisiana.

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Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company founded on September 25, 1928, based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

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Motorola 6800

The 6800 ("sixty-eight hundred") is an 8-bit microprocessor designed and first manufactured by Motorola in 1974.

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Motorola 68000

The Motorola 68000 ("'sixty-eight-thousand'"; also called the m68k or Motorola 68k, "sixty-eight-kay") is a 16/32-bit CISC microprocessor, which implements a 32-bit instruction set, with 32-bit registers and 32-bit internal data bus, but with a 16-bit data ALU and two 16-bit arithmetic ALUs and a 16-bit external data bus, designed and marketed by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector.

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Motorola 6809

The Motorola 6809 ("sixty-eight-oh-nine") is an 8-bit microprocessor CPU with some 16-bit features from Motorola.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.

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Mr. Mister

Mr.

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Music sequencer

A music sequencer (or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control (OSC), and possibly audio and automation data for DAWs and plug-ins.

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Music workstation

A music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of.

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Mutato Muzika

Mutato Muzika is an American music production company established and owned by Devo co-founder and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh in 1989.

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Naked Eyes

Naked Eyes is a British new wave band"All Eyes on Pete Byrne" Newsday 15 October 2013 that rose to prominence in the early 1980s.

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NAMM Show

The NAMM Show is an annual event in the US that its organizers describe as "the world’s largest trade-only event for the music products industry".

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National Film and Sound Archive

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is Australia’s audiovisual archive, responsible for developing, preserving, maintaining, promoting and providing access to a national collection of copies of film, television, sound, and radio audiovisual materials and related items.

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Naughty by Nature

Naughty by Nature is a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey consisting of Treach (Anthony Criss, born December 2, 1970), Vin Rock (Vincent Brown, born September 17, 1970), and DJ Kay Gee (born Keir Lamont Gist, September 15, 1969).

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Neneh Cherry

Neneh Mariann Karlsson (born 10 March 1964), better known as Neneh Cherry, is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper, occasional DJ and broadcaster.

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Never for Ever

Never for Ever is the third studio album by English singer Kate Bush.

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New England Digital

New England Digital Corp. (1976–1993) was founded in Norwich, Vermont, and relocated to White River Junction, Vermont.

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New Musik

New Musik were an English synthpop group active from 1977 to 1982.

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New Scientist

New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.

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Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes (born Nicholas James Bates; 8 June 1962) is an English musician, singer and producer, best known as a founding member and keyboardist of the new wave band Duran Duran.

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Nik Kershaw

Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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No Jacket Required

No Jacket Required is the third solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Phil Collins.

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Orchestra hit

An orchestra hit, also known as an orchestral hit, orchestra stab, or orchestral stab, is a sound effect created through the layering of the sounds of a number of different synthesized orchestral instruments playing a single staccato note or chord.

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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are an English electronic music band formed in Wirral, Merseyside in 1978.

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Paul Davis (singer)

Paul Lavon Davis (April 21, 1948 – April 22, 2008) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970.

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Paula Abdul

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Pet Shop Boys

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synthpop duo, formed in London in 1981 and consisting of Neil Tennant (lead vocals, keyboards, occasional guitar) and Chris Lowe (keyboards, vocals).

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Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and principal songwriter for the rock band the Who.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian who rose to fame as the original lead singer and flautist of the progressive rock band Genesis.

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Peter Gabriel (1980 album)

Peter Gabriel is the third album by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released in May 1980.

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Peter Gabriel (1982 album)

Peter Gabriel is the fourth album released by English rock musician Peter Gabriel.

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Peter Howell (musician)

Peter Howell (born c. 1948) is a musician and composer.

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Peter Vogel (computer designer)

Peter Vogel (born 30 August 1954, Sydney) is an Australian inventor and technologist known for developing the Fairlight CMI.

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Petra (band)

Petra is a music group regarded as a pioneer of the Christian rock and contemporary Christian music genres.

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Phantom power

Phantom power, in the context of professional audio equipment, is DC electric power transmitted through microphone cables to operate microphones that contain active electronic circuitry.

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Phil Collins

Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an English drummer, singer-songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Physical modelling synthesis

Physical modelling synthesis refers to sound synthesis methods in which the waveform of the sound to be generated is computed using a mathematical model, a set of equations and algorithms to simulate a physical source of sound, usually a musical instrument.

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Polyphony and monophony in instruments

Polyphony is a property of musical instruments that means that they can play multiple independent melody lines simultaneously.

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Pooh (band)

Pooh was an Italian pop band formed in 1966 in Bologna.

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Port Jackson

Port Jackson, consisting of the waters of Sydney Harbour, Middle Harbour, North Harbour and the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, is the ria or natural harbour of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Pound sterling

The pound sterling (symbol: £; ISO code: GBP), commonly known as the pound and less commonly referred to as Sterling, is the official currency of the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and Tristan da Cunha.

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Powerhouse Museum

The Powerhouse Museum is the major branch of the Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences in Sydney, the other being the historic Sydney Observatory.

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Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and filmmaker.

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Priscilla McLean

Priscilla McLean (née Taylor; born May 27, 1942) is an American composer, performer, video artist, writer, and music reviewer.

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Programming (music)

Programming is a form of music production and performance using electronic devices, such as sequencers, to generate sounds of musical instruments.

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Public Image Ltd

Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) are an English post-punk band formed by singer John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten), guitarist Keith Levene, bassist Jah Wobble, and drummer Jim Walker.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Quantization (music)

In digital music processing technology, quantization is the process of transforming performed musical notes, which may have some imprecision due to expressive performance, to an underlying musical representation that eliminates this imprecision.

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Queen (band)

Queen are a British rock band that formed in London in 1970.

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QWERTY

QWERTY is a keyboard design for Latin-script alphabets.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Rain Man

Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass.

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Rammstein

Rammstein is a German heavy metal band formed in 1994 in Berlin, Germany.

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Reed Business Information

Reed Business Information is a provider of data services, analytics and information to businesses.

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Rhett Lawrence

Rhett Lawrence is an American record producer and songwriter.

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Richard James Burgess

Richard James Burgess (born 29 June 1949) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, author, manager, marketer and inventor.

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Richard Wright (musician)

Richard William Wright (28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008) was an English musician, composer, singer, and songwriter.

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Rick van der Linden

Rick van der Linden (5 August 1946, Badhoevedorp, North Holland - 22 January 2006, Groningen) was a Dutch composer and keyboardist.

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Rick Wakeman

Richard Christopher "Rick" Wakeman (born 18 May 1949) is an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, and author.

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Robert John "Mutt" Lange

Robert John "Mutt" Lange (born 11 November 1948) is a South African record producer and songwriter.

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Rockwell (musician)

Kennedy William Gordy (born March 15, 1964), better known by his stage name Rockwell, is a former American musician and singer-songwriter who was signed to the Motown label.

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Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer, musician, and actor.

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Roger Nichols (recording engineer)

Roger Scott Nichols (September 22, 1944 – April 9, 2011) was an American recording engineer, producer and inventor.

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Roger Waters

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English songwriter, singer, bassist, and composer.

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Roland Romanelli

Roland Romanelli (born 21 May 1946) is a French synthesist and composer, mainly known as arranger.

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Romeo's Daughter

Romeo's Daughter are a British AOR, contemporary and mainstream rock band featuring Leigh Matty, Craig Joiner and Anthony Mitman.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyrics).

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Ryuichi Sakamoto

() is a Japanese musician, singer, composer, record producer, activist, writer, actor and dancer, based in Tokyo and New York.

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S/PDIF

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a type of digital audio interconnect used in consumer audio equipment to output audio over reasonably short distances.

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Sampler (musical instrument)

A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer, but instead of generating new sounds with filters, it uses sound recordings (or "samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin or trumpet), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or other sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves).

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Scritti Politti

Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, by the Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Shakatak

Shakatak are an English jazz-funk band, founded in 1980.

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Shock the Monkey

"Shock the Monkey" is a 1982 song by English rock musician Peter Gabriel.

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Shona Laing

Shona Laing (born 9 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician.

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Shout (Devo album)

Shout is the sixth studio album by American new wave band Devo.

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Skinny Puppy

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial music group formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982.

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SMPTE timecode

SMPTE timecode is a set of cooperating standards to label individual frames of video or film with a timecode.

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (rarely), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association, of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry.

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Sound on Sound

Sound on Sound is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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Sounds of Australia

The Sounds of Australia (formerly known as the National Registry of Recorded Sound), founded in 2007 is the National Film and Sound Archive's selection of sound recordings with cultural, historical and aesthetic significance and relevance, which inform or reflect life in Australia.

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Sparks (band)

Sparks are an American pop and rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1972 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals).

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Spencer Nilsen

Spencer Nilsen (born April 9, 1961) is an American video game music composer.

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SPK (band)

SPK were an Australian industrial music and noise music group formed in 1978.

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Stanley Jordan

Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959) is an American jazz guitarist whose technique involves tapping his fingers on the fretboard of the guitar with both hands.

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Ste van Holm

Ste van Holm (born Stefan Holm; 1977 in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish musician and video artist.

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Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English rock musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"

Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" is an album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on the Tamla Motown label on October 30, 1979 (see 1979 in music).

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Stewart Copeland

Stewart Armstrong Copeland (born July 16, 1952) is an American musician and composer.

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Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman (abbreviated as SAW) are an English songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman.

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Styx (band)

Styx is an American rock band from Chicago that formed in 1972 and became famous for its albums released in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Supertramp

Supertramp (known as Daddy in 1969–1970) are an English rock band formed in London in 1969.

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Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.

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Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Synclavier

The Synclavier was an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont, USA.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Tasmin Archer

Tasmin Archer (born 3 August 1963) is an English pop singer.

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Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English pop rock band formed in Bath in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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Ted Nugent

Theodore Anthony Nugent (born December 13, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist.

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Teddy Riley

Edward Theodore Riley (born October 8, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, keyboardist, and record producer credited with the creation of the new jack swing genre.

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Telex (band)

Telex was a Belgian synthpop group formed in 1978 by Marc Moulin, Dan Lacksman and Michel Moers, with the intention of "making something really European, different from rock, without guitar — and the idea was electronic music".

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The Alan Parsons Project

The Alan Parsons Project were an English rock band active between 1975 and 1990, whose rosters consisted of Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

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The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile were a musical group from Glasgow, Scotland.

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The Buggles

The Buggles were an English new wave band formed in London, England in 1977 by singer and bassist Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoffrey Downes.

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The Cars

The Cars were an American rock band that emerged from the new wave scene in the late 1970s.

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The Church (band)

The Church are an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980.

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The Garden (John Foxx album)

The Garden is a 1981 album by John Foxx, the follow-up to his debut solo album Metamatic, released the previous year.

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The Golden Section

The Golden Section is a 1983 album by English musician John Foxx.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The Killing Fields (album)

The Killing Fields is the 10th record album by Mike Oldfield, released in 1984 on Virgin Records.

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The Police

The Police were a British rock band formed in London in 1977.

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The Psychedelic Furs

The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977.

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The Reflex

"The Reflex" is the eleventh single by Duran Duran, released worldwide on 16 April 1984.

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The Register

The Register (nicknamed El Reg) is a British technology news and opinion website co-founded in 1994 by Mike Magee, John Lettice and Ross Alderson.

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The South Bank Show

The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show.

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The Tear Garden

The Tear Garden is a psychedelic/experimental/electronic band, formed by Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1985 after Key served as a sound engineer on tour in Canada for Ka-Spel.

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The Village (studio)

The Village (also known as Village Recorders, or the Village Recorder) is a recording studio located at 1616 Butler Avenue in West Los Angeles, California.

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The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss industrial rock band from Fribourg.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Thomas Dolby

Thomas Morgan Robertson (born 14 October 1958), known by the stage name Thomas Dolby, is an English musician, singer and producer.

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Thompson Twins

Thompson Twins were a British pop band that formed in April 1977.

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Timbrality

Monotimbral (from the root prefix mono meaning one, and timbre meaning a specific tone of a sound independent of its pitch) is usually used in reference to electronic synthesisers which can produce a single timbre at a given pitch when pressing one key (if the synth is monophonic) or multiple keys (if the synth is polyphonic).

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Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions.

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Todd Rundgren

Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia.

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Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was a long-running BBC television series on new developments in science and technology.

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Tony Mansfield

Tony Mansfield (born 19 January 1955) is an English songwriter, musician and record producer.

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Top of the Pops

Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.

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Trevor Horn

Trevor Charles Horn (born 15 July 1949) is an English bassist, singer, songwriter, music producer, and recording studio and label owner.

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Triumph (band)

Triumph is a Canadian hard rock band formed in 1975 that was popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s, building on its reputation and success as a live band.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Under Wraps (Jethro Tull album)

Under Wraps is the 15th studio album by the band Jethro Tull, released in 1984.

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Underscoring

In a musical theater or film production, underscoring is the playing of music quietly under spoken dialogue or a visual scene.

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USB

USB (abbreviation of Universal Serial Bus), is an industry standard that was developed to define cables, connectors and protocols for connection, communication, and power supply between personal computers and their peripheral devices.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Vince Clarke

Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin; 3 July 1960) is an English synthpop musician and songwriter.

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Vince DiCola

Vincent Louis "Vince" DiCola (born November 1957) is an American composer, keyboardist and arranger.

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Vivian Kubrick

Vivian Vanessa Kubrick, also credited under the pseudonym Abigail Mead, (born August 5, 1960) is an American filmmaker and composer, known for her work with her father, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.

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Vorbis

Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Wang Chung (band)

Wang Chung are a British new wave musical group formed in 1980.

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We're All Devo

We're All Devo! is the second home video release by new wave band Devo.

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Whispering Jack

Whispering Jack is the twelfth studio album by Australian adult contemporary pop singer John Farnham.

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White Noise (band)

White Noise is an English experimental electronic music band formed in London in 1968 by American-born David Vorhaus, a classical bass player with a background in physics and electronic engineering.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Word clock

A word clock or wordclock (sometimes sample clock, which can have a broader meaning) is a clock signal used to synchronise other devices, such as digital audio tape machines and compact disc players, which interconnect via digital audio signals.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Yazoo (band)

Yazoo (known as Yaz in North America for legal reasons involving Yazoo Records) were a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex, England, consisting of former Depeche Mode member Vince Clarke (keyboards) and Alison Moyet (vocals).

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Yello

Yello is a Swiss electronic duo band consisting of Dieter Meier and Boris Blank.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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Yes (band)

Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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Zoolook

Zoolook is the seventh studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean Michel Jarre, released on the Disques Dreyfus label in 1984.

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808 State

808 State are an English electronic music group, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairlight_CMI

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