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Originally posted by David
I'm not sure what you mean, but Kate Bush used the Fairlight starting in 1982 for her album "The Dreaming"; & Lindsey first used the Fairlight for his 1984 solo album ("Go Insane"). Stevie Wonder also used one of these very expensive samplers. I don't think there were very many made because of their cost (I think it cost about $25,000) & very few musicians were willing to buy one. It allowed you to sample real sounds & digitally mix them into your music. The samples could be looped or resampled. The technology can be duplicated nowadays by inexpensive synths that cost a few thousand.
You can see pics of the old Fairlights at http://code404.com/synths/index-text.html#fairlight
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Cool! Tanks a lot, David! Never saw these things before, the name "FAIRLIGHT" just had some magical sound. But around those times I heard/read rumours about exchanging gear between Buckingham and Bush ( what about that, sounds good: here's the new BuckinghamBush- album
). Maybe Lindsey hired the Fairlight from her when she finished the Dreaming (My fave KB-album!), for working on Go insane!