Post by ultrabluedress on Oct 17, 2009 15:53:09 GMT -8
For any of you who can see the iplayer it looks like DM are featured
Here's the link
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n93c4/Synth_Britannia/
Just hoping it lasts more than tonight so I can avoid all out war again at chez Li
Anyway enjoy
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Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.
By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.
Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Broadcast on:
BBC Four, 12:20am Saturday 17th October 2009
Duration:
90 minutes
Available until:
10:29pm Friday 23rd October 2009
Categories:
* Factual,
* Arts, Culture & the Media,
* Music,
* Classic Pop & Rock
Go to Synth Britannia site
Here's the link
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n93c4/Synth_Britannia/
Just hoping it lasts more than tonight so I can avoid all out war again at chez Li
Anyway enjoy
edit
Documentary following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
In the late 1970s, small pockets of electronic artists including the Human League, Daniel Miller and Cabaret Volatire were inspired by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard and dreamt of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
The crossover moment came in 1979 when Gary Numan's appearance on Top of the Pops with Tubeway Army's Are Friends Electric heralded the arrival of synthpop. Four lads from Basildon known as Depeche Mode would come to own the new sound whilst post-punk bands like Ultravox, Soft Cell, OMD and Yazoo took the synth out of the pages of the NME and onto the front page of Smash Hits.
By 1983, acts like Pet Shop Boys and New Order were showing that the future of electronic music would lie in dance music.
Contributors include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant.
Broadcast on:
BBC Four, 12:20am Saturday 17th October 2009
Duration:
90 minutes
Available until:
10:29pm Friday 23rd October 2009
Categories:
* Factual,
* Arts, Culture & the Media,
* Music,
* Classic Pop & Rock
Go to Synth Britannia site