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See page 83 to find out how to download this issue’s exclusive content welcome Rumour has it that ABBA heard that Computer Music were doing an 80s Special so just thought ‘sod it, let’s get back together for one last hurrah’. Yes the 80s are back but not just with the return of the mighty Swedes. The charts have been littered with 80s sounds ever since, well, the 80s, but never more so than the last few years. The Weeknd and Dua Lipa are the obvious pop examples – and the ones we focus on in our massive retro cover feature in this issue on p18 – but the production tricks, techniques and tropes used four
“Thanks for the music, ‘the 80s’ and the tech…”
decades ago are littered across many genres. And it’s not just our cover feature that focuses on the decade where technology exploded. Our reviews section (p66) features a lot of software emulations of 80s gear, Public Service Broadcasting (p42) – to these ears anyway – have a whiff of the 80s about them (albeit one mixed with whiffs of just about everything else) and 80s icons Blancmange (p58) demonstrate how to use the 80s as a platform and reinvent themselves in the process. Finally there was an idea to put a photo of me from 1988 – or thereabouts – with an Atari and the first ever synth workstation, but so hideous was it (mullet and all) that my fragile ego could never let it be seen (unless drunk). So I’ll just thank you ‘The 80s’, ABBA and everything else 40 years old. Thank you for the music. And the technology as it goes.
Andy Jones Editor andy.jones@futurenet.com
