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Andrew Collins explores the development of electronic music.

Another chance to hear Andrew Collins presenting a four-part series on electronic music.

The series continues with an in depth look at the end of the seventies, the end of punk. Kids who can't play the guitar well enough to get in a punk band start forming synth bands.

We hear how The Human League, Heaven 17, Thomas Dolby, Depeche Mode and New Order shaped the sounds of a generation. Synths then are everywhere and ultimately take over the world.

The DX7 is the world's first million-selling synth and we hear why. We also discover how synths joined the musical mainstream and paved the way for others to follow and emulate.

First broadcast in 2004.

30 minutes

Last on

Thu 6 Apr 202301:30
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Enola Gay

    • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
    • Global Television.
    • RADCD-09.

  • Roxy Music

    EDITIONS OF YOU

    • FOR YOUR PLEASURE.
    • E.G. RECORDS.
    • EGCD-8.

  • David Bowie

    Art Decade

    • LOW.
    • EMI.
    • CDP-7977192.

  • Visage

    Fade To Grey

    • IT'S ELECTRIC - VARIOUS.
    • DINO ENTERTAINMENT.
    • DINCD-73.

  • Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.
    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
    • SONYTV-54CD*.

  • Gary Numan

    Cars

    • BEGGARS BANQUET : BEG-264 CD.
    • BEGGARS BANQUET.
    • BEG-264 CD.

  • The Human League

    Being Boiled

    • The Very Best of...The Human League.
    • Virgin/EMI.
    • 7243-59238821.

  • Depeche Mode

    New Life

    • Best Of: Volume 1.
    • Mute.
    • 001-001.

  • The Human League

    The Sound Of The Crowd

    • The Very Best Of The Human League.
    • Virgin/EMI.
    • 7243-59238821.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    ELECTRICITY

    • THE OMD SINGLES.
    • VIRGIN.
    • CDV-2859.

  • John Foxx

    No-One Driving

    • Metamatic.
    • Virgin.
    • CDV-2146.

  • Depeche Mode

    SEE YOU

    • THE SINGLES 81 - 85.
    • MUTE RECORDS.
    • CD MUTEL-1.

  • Harold Faltermeyer

    Axel F

    • BEVERLEY HILLS COP SOUNDTRACK.
    • MCA.
    • MCAD-5553.

  • New Order

    Blue Monday

    • Best Album in The World.
    • Virgin.
    • VTD-CD76.

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Two Tribes

    • Top Forty Hits.
    • BBC Music.
    • BBC-639.

  • Depeche Mode

    PERSONAL JESUS

    • THE BEST...ALBUM IN THE WORLD...EVER!.
    • VIRGIN.
    • VTDCD-58.

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