Fairlight-CMI

> YES!  How cool that someone else remembers these :-)  I was given a 
CD
> by a friend of mine (I'll email him to find out where he got it and
> post it back here) produced by someone with *all* of the tapes on -
> great listening - it took me back 20 years to when I would sit on 

I'd be interested to know who gave you the CD as (I believe) it was 
me who compiled the CD.  As you can imagine I spent tens of hours 
recording and denoising the tapes and doing the artwork.  I have only 
given them out to 5 people, an Northern Irishman, an Englishman, a 
German, a Swede and an American.

As you may know (especially if you search the archive) I made the 
Vince Clarke Fairlight demonstration available.  These messages 
threads start at message number 153 and message 186.

Anyway here's the sales pitch.....

Electronic Soundmaker and Computer Music CD

I have mp3ed and cleaned up ALL the ES and CM cassettes with cassette 
inlay scans and put them on to a CD - all 12 hours worth! There's 
some classic stuff in there including Vince Clarke demonstrating his 
Fairlight, readers demos, classic intruments/drum machines/sequencers 
as well as featured artists.

There is 640MB of data with the mp3s encoded at 128kbit constant bit 
rate. The cassette source has been hiss and noise reduced with added 
brilliance to bring the highs out again using Steinberg's Clean!. The 
mp3 links in this email are cut from this impressive selection to 
give you an indication of quality.

The instruments include the Kurzweil 250, Rhodes Chroma Polaris, 
Drumulator new chips, Bit One Poly, Simmons drums, Greengate DS3, 
Korg EX800, Casio CZ101, Emulator II, Roland TR707, Digisound 
Modular, Drumtraks, Synclavier, Roland JX8P, Ensoniq Mirage, Yamaha 
DX5, Linn 9000, Siel DK80, Oberheim Matrix 12, Casio CZ5000, Yamaha 
QX-1, TX816, PPG system and updates plus more.

The feature artists include Tangerine Dream, Mainframe, Vince Clarke, 
Mark Shreeve, Ian Boddy, Neuronium, Kissing the Pink, Cocteau Twins, 
Gary Numan, Mark Jenkins, Heaven 17, Eurythmics/Cris and Cosey.

The more people who have this CD, the more this period of history is 
preserved.  I know you'd appreciate it - just don't sell it on eBay 
or anything.

I'm based in the UK and I'll have to charge a small handling fee of 
£1.99 for each CD plus £1 post and packaging in the UK obviously a 
bit more if overseas but not much.  Or if YOU have made an 
interesting CD of YOUR music then send me that CD and I'll send you 
this in return!

Email me off list if interested.  I can take other forms of "payment" 
too.

Many thanks

Chris Strellis

synthasy2000@yahoo.co.uk