Samplers: Fairlight, E-Mu & The Rhythm Machines

From musique concrète razor blades to the Fairlight fortune, the Emulator, the Linn LM-1 and the MPC — the machines that turned the whole world into raw material.

Playlist by @synthesizer_history

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars — Vox
2. Music Revolutionaries - Pierre Schaeffer — MusonicX: Music Technology Foundations
3. Herbie Hancock jams with his Fairlight CMI — Fred Koke
4. How the Fairlight CMI changed the course of music — The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
5. 1980: The Sound of the FUTURE! With the Fairlight CMI | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive — BBC Archive
6. The Fairlight CMI Story — Mia Kiesman
7. Dave Rossum | Designing Emulator II — Arturia
8. Why Everyone Wanted an E-mu Emulator (The Story Behind the Icon) — Ian Dixon
9. The Linn LM-1: The Drum Machine that changed everything — Alex Ball
10. History of AKAI MPC samplers and why I use them — Kid Got Beats