"I often bore friends about 1983 being a pivotal year in music, with the development of technology having a huge influence on the sounds of the time" Makersmark tells us. The proof is in the pudding... and it’s a tasty one this week!
Having just read ‘Let The Music Play - How R&B Fell in love with 80s Synths’ by Steven Vass, Mark felt compelled to record a special FTRS which hopefully showcases some of the best productions created at the time. As he states in the introduction:
“When anyone talks about the history of electronic music, it’s usually a very lopsided version: almost no black artists. Yet, in reality, there were black synth pioneers all over the place. They were getting started in the 1960s, experimenting heavily in the 1970s and so entrenched by the mid-1980s that traditional instruments were hardly being used at all.
So in the interests of telling a different story… welcome to some cracking tunes that sound as vital today as they did 40 years ago”.
