“Technology changed everything. It turned us from a jazz-funk-fusion band into ‘synth-pop chart-toppers’” says Landscape’s John L Walters
The LM-1, the DMX, the TR-808… not an extract from a trainspotter’s logbook but, in fact, a list of some of the most important players in pop history. This is the tech – the synthesizers, sequencers, samplers and drum machines – that facilitated the most memorable pop masterstrokes of the 1980s, including When Doves Cry, Don’t You Want Me and the unstoppable Blue Monday. Read on to discover the classic devices that shaped the decade’s defining sounds…
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