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A sneak preview from the upcoming 'ScopeRise Time Machine 85' series of audio recordings (November 2013 edition).

Frankfurt MusikMesse 1985. Nostalgic live coverage audio and demonstrations of the latest hi-tech device releases at the time from :

1) EMU Emulator 2
2) Yamaha TX816 + KX88 live demo by Dave Bristow
3) Roger Linn demo of the LINN9000
4) Casio - CZ101 - CZ1000
5) Sequential Multitrack
6) AKAI - S612 Sampler + VX90 + MX76

Hear them all here plus the surrounding hype.

https://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/musik ... 985-part-1

Many chessy stabby demos - however I found Richard Young's 'SnowBlind' impressive.

Amazing time machine

Indeed.
I had 2 of the 6 mentioned above and 120+ Floppies.
Great article.
We can see the trend of quality hardware (mostly smaller) making a comeback.
I wish Time Travel was possible with the gear I have now.
I could have made a fortune selling 1MB Double Sided FDDs of Solaris for the EII.

Lol. Like the way the commentator treats everything so passe - like 'oh great sounding Emulator if you've got a few weeks to program it' and of Dave Bristow's monks and nuns TX816 demo - 'heady stuff but how about a bit of light relief now'.

Even in those days much was taken for granted.

Just had one of these, the small and surprising CZ101, maybe one of my first real synthesizer ...
... and still have it, even after the CZ-OSC integration into Mod IV.

still got a EII and EIII

still have the full EII library

and make new disks just did a melotron mark II flute for a member

something about 8bit accumulated to 12bits audio and real analog filters