The 80’s – Sampling | Saturday Night Weaver

The 80’s – Sampling

by blue on Oct.22, 2009, under Instruments, Trivia

In 1980 I bought my first Fairlight (the very first sampler made) and was soon happily creating 1000’s of samples. Then a few years later Akai developed their incredibly cheap, compared to the Fairlight, range of samplers.

This promted an incredible amount of people and companies trying to sell their own samples every music magazine was smothered with their ad’s each professing to be better than the rest so I created my own range. You can see my ad at the bottom of my “instruments” page.

2 comments for this entry:

JOHN WAKE
November 30th, 2009 on 7:41 pm
Derek. Just happened across your site. Brought back so many memories. Remember you were playing I think with Contrasts in Cardiff with Phil Burnett et al. I was a cop at the time and used to hang around with Phil. Dont know if you remember. So interested in following your cv on this site through the 60s 70s and 80s. I think one of the clubs you played at with Phil’s band, was the Barry Non Pol up there on the top of the Dock view. Just a reminiscence. The 60s were something else and could never be forgotten.
blue
December 2nd, 2009 on 9:06 pm
Hi John, your really testing my long term memory now, The Contrasts? Phil Burnet? Help! I vaguely remember, did we change the name of the group to something else? what were all the guys names and instruments? Thanks