On the Playlist 5SEP2018…

A carry on from yesterday's post. As I was thinking about how groundbreaking the music of Jean Michel Jarre was and his use of electronics, it got me thinking to how far music has come and specifically with the very first samplers and sequencers and how ubiquitous they are in music now - so much so that there is now an app for the iphone that replicates the functions of one of the very first sampler/sequencer the Fairlight CMI. Jean Michel Jarre was one of the first to use it but the first mainstream artist to use it was Peter Gabriel. He formed the first company to distribute these machines in Europe and first used it on his third solo album (a great album in itself). With that backdrop this evening I was listening to Peter Gabriel's fourth solo album also know Security as it has some amazing effects and samples on it and most of them done with the Fairlight CMI. A couple tracks stand out for me on this album including "San Jacinto", "I Have the Touch" and "The Rhythm of the Heat". This was also one of the very earliest fully digital recordings ever made.

Peter Gabriel - Security