Yazoo 1983 03 Vince Clark synths demo @ The Other Side Of The Tracks 

He is! Inducted as a member of Depeche Mode.

I wrote to him via Mute back in the early 80's about synths and he responded. True gent.

it def. needs more of it!

Thats as funny as fuck. Absolutely right, in my reckoning. This is pre 808 cowbell glory status. The dude is clueless. Vince is a gentleman.

​@@SpikesStudio3Gambaccini is 34 here and is giving off massive bank manager vibes.

That is a massive understatement, like saying Niagara Falls is a bit wet.

@@ahmerali222 may he rest in peace GENIUS!!

absolutely❤

​@@vincemorriss8915He is not dead 😂

You know your synths and samplers. I know he also used an ARP 2600, Juno 60 and Jupiter 4 on the first Yazoo album, and TR-808.but that Linn sounds punchy. He's such a talented writer.

@@truthministry. shame he can't play !

@@vimfuego8827 You're kidding, he plays guitar and keyboard very well. He writes most of his songs on an acoustic guitar.

A Fairlight in 1983 cost as much as a house. Are we sure he owned one back then himself, or was he visiting a studio with one in it? Who's the man with the curly hair and the mustache by the way?

@@meneerjansen00 He did buy one, heard him say he felt 'like a mug' for paying so much money, in one of his interviews. Martin Gore put a 'Fairlite' sticker on a cheap synth at a live gig, to have laugh at him, I guess.

Digital drum machine but true

@c-tiv You mean the drum machine played samples? Point taken, but even these digital machines from back in the day had a so much life in them

He is the master of getting a big sound from few tracks, I think its his great basslines that fill out the tracks. Imagine if you could go back in time and hand Vince a modern day laptop with Cubase and a ton of softsynths, imagine what he would have come up with, let alone the shock that a tiny device could do all that.

@@maccagrabme Actually, even though he would be surprised, he probably would have been one of the people that got less surprised since at the time of the video, he already owned a Fairlight CMI 2 that had the very famous Page R. You can actually see the Fairlights screen in the video, although not on Page R, but another screen/page of the functions of the workstation that the Fairligth was. What that meant was that you had one of the earliest takes on what a DAW would be. It worked on samples (That of course could be manipulated) It had 8 voice cards which meant that up to 8 sounds could be played at the same time, either 8 totally different sounds (multitimbral) or some sounds with chords. All played with a velocity sensitive 88 key keyboard. They could then be sequenced in Page R where each track/part could be seen from left to right. You could rercord what you played on the keyboard in realtime (hence "Page R", R as in "real time") and you could quantize, edit etc. You navigated the screen with a light pen, just like a mouse. You could make a whole song, including drums, bass sounds, chords etc just using the Fairlight! It also had digital/Softsynth abilitiesk ie you could do some digital synthesis on it, but mostly more abstract stuff with additive syntheis, harmonics and the like (even on samples). Absolutely fantastic stuff at the time decades ahead of time. The problem was that it cost more than a house at the time... So yes, he would be surprised by todays technology, but given that he had seen what the Fairlight could do in 83 and knowing that stuff evolves he probably could expect this to happen!

i just discovered them and i cant remember the last time i was this inspired to make some music

Called Yaz in U.S. - some unheard of U.S. band already had the Yazoo name.

Alf (Alison Moyet) was/is one of Britains best female vocalists of the last 50 years

@@treetopjones737 Was because of Yazoo records.

Was usually a fever of white lines with Paul 😂😂

Mmmm, not quite. You try it.

@@ramalama9650 I was joking

Oh right, I wondered who the third chap was, thanks.

Yeah. Sounds f-----g amazing.

It couldn't sound any more 1983, in fact. It never ceases to amaze me how even individual years in the 80s had their own sound, such was the frenetic pace of music technology back then.

Also Peter Gabriel and Herbie Hancock !

And J.M.Jarre!

Seems he is getting into modular. That is one seriously expensive rabbit hole.

Eric Radcliffe doesn't appear in this video

@@alexgomes4096 Thats Eric Radcliffe at the mixing desk in the end credits.

Yes, i guess Claudio .... and Anthony .... will love this ! 😂

Vince also did the theme tune for a summer bmx / motocross tv show in 1984

There is a learning curve with any instrument. People are entitled to their own opinion, no matter how wrong you may think it is. Also, it is closed-minded. You're being extremely presumptuous, so does that make you any better than them? I enjoy music, both old and new. I'm not so sure your mind is as "open" as you may believe it to be.

You hear it on You And Me Both. Don’t think it got used on Upstairs At Eric’s much.

@@TheUnfinishedSynth 👍 . I will listen again this album and try to notice it.

Not a fan of the Gam, but I am a fan of Vince.

It is louder than any instrument in that room. 🤣

He was in Depeche Mode

Die erste Platte von DM war zum größten Teil von Vince...

Bearing in mind the time of this video, it would be fair to say he was still learning his craft. Also, and I cannot emphasise this enough, perfect timing is not the Holy Grail.

Did you spot if it was fitted with a volume control? 😉 Funny thing is, I owned one similar to that (mine was purple) when I was a boy in the 60's.

Hardly.

Indeed you can (and then some 😂) but there’s definitely something special about having a bunch of kit MIDI’d together and sequenced from a hardware sequencer, instead of a DAW 👍. More satisfying I think, although definitely a pain!!!

What? Did they never worked together in the studio?

Hair today. Gone tomorrow.

Yes it was. The one I have uploaded can be found here : check for my other The Other Side Of The Tracks series here : ru-vid.com/show-UCobBgXhGGSZ1-UsZx9b3CdQsearch?query=other-side

Paul Gambaccini has the world’s best memory for remembering the titles and names of the “B’ sides of UK single chart records - so they say. He compiled the Guinness Book of UK Singles with Sir Tim Rice and also has a similar memory for US Billboard. He has been a BBC DJ for over 40 years.

It did in fact catch on! And decades ago! And hasn’t really ever slowed down, despite your disdain for it. But that didn’t do anything to slow down the popularity of great music being made by creative people. If you actually KNEW all that is involved in the creation process-you yourself would probably be scratching your head, very confused, and lost in the technical aspects. I’m saying that you have no idea, and it’s WAY more than just pushing buttons.

The gear was expensive and monophonic, that seems to negate your point.

@@rdubb77 he bought a Fairlight visible here too

@@marguskiis7711 Don't know what the polyphony of the Fairlight is, but pretty much any music made in the 80's utilizing it (or other synths for that matter) is pretty minimal.

@@rdubb77 simple synths made minimal sounds. Fairlight was polyphonic keyboard.

@@rdubb77 8 voices, interestingly he didn't use the Fairlight for that long as it got damaged in a basement flood , supposedly it got restored a few years ago. DM/Martin made fun of if Fairlight purchase by putting the word "Fairlite" on the back of a little Casio keyboard which Martin had on top of his PPG Wave in some live videos.

PRINCE also used it !

Paul Gambaccini is a very well known and respected American broadcaster, who has lived in the UK for probably 50 years or more. He has been on BBC radio for decades too. Speaking as a self confessed synth nerd like Vince, most people cannot comprehend what we are talking about, and a lack of enthusiasm is common. Even my wife fakes it (the synth enthusiasm i mean lol)

@@LFOVCF Yes, i´m a fellow synth nerd and know exactly what you mean.

@@smacloopy4029 He's using a linn drum but whats that kit on the left is that an early sequencer - you can see the keypad on it?!

sorry on the right must be a hardware midi sequencer

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-f0KQKSx-PbM.html MC4

You must be new. I was thinking, before the Commodore 64 SID chiptunes and Amiga A500 Soundtracker software.

@@Music-tg5is And before that... we all l,earned how to PLAY our instruments! It's not the technology that's the problem, plenty of highly talented musicians use DAWs on a daily basis, it's the talent less idiots that know people in the industry that get deals that are pulling music back to its dumbest forms. Pop music has never been in such a sorry state as it is today.

@@groovedealerfeaturing-ashl6476 There is creativity out there in amongst all of the chaff. You just have to seek it out.

because it was exlusively made for this one docu/show and even until now people like Vince are into this licencing shit and want money out of every crap where just their name is mentioned...

And why not? He created the music, so he should be paid for it. Do you work for free? The internet is the wild west when it comes to sharing anything. It is essentially stealing or pirating other people's work for their own gain. Be it socially or monetary. Napster nearly bankrupted the music industry by sharing music for free. That creep was finally reeled in by the feds with the threat of serious jail time. Artists negotiate contracts with record companies in good faith to earn a profit and produce more music. Welcome to capitalism.