Yamaha launched the DX7 in 1983 as an affordable digital synthesizer based on frequency-modulation (FM) synthesis researched at Stanford University (John Chowning) and engineered for mass production in Japan. It offered 16-voice polyphony, a five-octave keyboard and MIDI, which helped it sit in expanding digital
From a Deptford flat and a red Stratocaster, Dire Straits turned quiet storytelling into Brothers in Arms scale.
In February 1984, Italian singer Raf released Self Control on Carrere, co-written with Giancarlo Bigazzi and Steve Piccolo and produced by Bigazzi.
In the Raw and Uncut interview from the I'm Your Baby Tonight era (1991), Whitney Houston answers without the talk-show varnish. She talks voice, image, and the pressure of carrying pop and R&B hits while the machine around her keeps asking for the next perfect
By Faith in October 1987, George Michael kept the melody and dropped the Wham! cartoon brightness.
Yazoo’s Don’t Go (1982): Vince Clarke B-side for Only You, Alison Moyet, Blackwing/Mute, UK No. 3.
In September 1993 DGC released In Utero, Nirvana's third studio album, tracked in two weeks at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, with Steve Albini engineering.
Moonage Daydream sits on David Bowie’s RCA album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), cut at Trident with Mick Ronson’s guitar framing the vocal an
Jay Kay launched Jamiroquai in London in the early 1990s as an acid-jazz project with a Buffalo Man logo; Travelling Without Moving (1996) and "Virtual Insanity" turned the groove global.
By Your Side reached US radio on 3 October 2000, the first Sade single in eight years, before Lovers Rock arrived in Britain.
