[sdiy] Re: Buggy Whips

[Richard Wentk]

At 10:21 27/12/2004, Oakley Sound wrote:
> > Well I never liked Zoolook, but I admire the early sampling from Peter
>Gabriel and Kate Bush.
>
>I played around with a Fairlight II a little while ago. I was amused to
>hear many of those samples in the 'preset' selections of the Fairlight.

I've never been able to work out the relationship between PG, Syco, and 
what went into the sample library. It's well known that PG's brother in law 
owned Syco who were the UK distributors, but I'm not sure if there was any 
creative input or not.

AON of course did a lot of their own sampling.

>Also the 'chinese' sounds on JMJ's China Concerts on on there, pitched
>up or down accordingly for use on the LP. Even the awesome Mike Oldfield
>used quite a few too on Five Miles Out and others.

That bloody swanee noise, for instance.

You can spend $100 to buy a CD with the original FII library on it.

Or you can download most of it for free from here:

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/fairlight/

It's incredible to think that if you had an FII you could hire yourself out 
for £1k a day. In the early 80s that was *serious* money - probably 
equivalent to between £5k and £10k now.

Richard