Yazoo 1983 03 Vince Clark synths demo @ The Other Side Of The Tracks

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[@GrueneTeaHaus]

Vince Clarke needs to be in Rock and Roll Hall of fame. What a legend! So humble and soft-spoken

[@drewjones5052]

He is! Inducted as a member of Depeche Mode.

[@JJMClark]

I wrote to him via Mute back in the early 80's about synths and he responded. True gent.

[@Only1Science]

@2:46 The first person documented to ask for the cowbell. lol

[@HangoverTelevision]

it def. needs more of it!

[@SpikesStudio3]

Thats as funny as fuck. Absolutely right, in my reckoning. This is pre 808 cowbell glory status. The dude is clueless. Vince is a gentleman.

[@thomasamos4055]

​@@SpikesStudio3Gambaccini is 34 here and is giving off massive bank manager vibes.

[@RMHeaven]

Clarke is a genius!!

[@ahmerali222]

That is a massive understatement, like saying Niagara Falls is a bit wet.

[@vincemorriss8915]

@@ahmerali222 may he rest in peace GENIUS!!

[@АлександрМанилов-е6л]

absolutely❤

[@RandomShit169]

​@@vincemorriss8915He is not dead 😂

[@michaelparker9860]

Your right he is!!

[@tedmelikian8033]

That Roland MC-4 is the best sequencer ever. Its randomization is great and its timing locking in the LinnDrum and ProOne is perfect. Its Vince's favorite sequencer and he sure knows how to use it. Synth legend!

[@cmath8577]

Wow. Haven't seen this before. I see a Fairlight... a Linndrum ..an MC-4 sequencer and a Pro-1.... and a very very rare RSF Kobol. Vince is a master.

[@truthministry.]

You know your synths and samplers. I know he also used an ARP 2600, Juno 60 and Jupiter 4 on the first Yazoo album, and TR-808.but that Linn sounds punchy. He's such a talented writer.

[@vimfuego8827]

@@truthministry. shame he can't play !

[@truthministry.]

@@vimfuego8827 You're kidding, he plays guitar and keyboard very well. He writes most of his songs on an acoustic guitar.

[@meneerjansen00]

A Fairlight in 1983 cost as much as a house. Are we sure he owned one back then himself, or was he visiting a studio with one in it? Who's the man with the curly hair and the mustache by the way?

[@truthministry.]

@@meneerjansen00 He did buy one, heard him say he felt 'like a mug' for paying so much money, in one of his interviews. Martin Gore put a 'Fairlite' sticker on a cheap synth at a live gig, to have laugh at him, I guess.

[@cosmojonesmusic]

Paul Gambaccini clearly had a fever, and the only cure was to hear the cowbell. 😂

[@jumpstar9000]

Was usually a fever of white lines with Paul 😂😂

[@zhugeliang1000]

Vince really is a master synthesist and he owns his unique signature sound palette. I do synth stuff and it always gets the juices flowing when I hear his stuff.

[@reedzkee]

i just discovered them and i cant remember the last time i was this inspired to make some music

[@wasiuuu1]

wow a track that was never released - and sounded good as any Yazoo single, 1983 he was still with Yazoo but not for long. Thanks for this video upload - little treasure from the past 🙂

[@aex2170]

We need a third Yazoo album! Please Vince and Alison! Thank you for this extraordinary video document!

[@hoisin75]

Vince and Paul Gambaccins are both legends of their field!

[@MarkusAliasCmn]

vince clarke and alison moyet = yazoo: WHAT A GREAT DUO!

[@treetopjones737]

Called Yaz in U.S. - some unheard of U.S. band already had the Yazoo name.

[@evilgenius4488]

Alf (Alison Moyet) was/is one of Britains best female vocalists of the last 50 years

[@AgentsofRush]

@@treetopjones737 Was because of Yazoo records.

[@owlmuso]

Apart from Vince's genius I am also struck by how few instruments are required to get a great, lively vibe going. That is analog synths and drum machines for you, they dripping with life

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Digital drum machine but true

[@owlmuso]

@c-tiv You mean the drum machine played samples? Point taken, but even these digital machines from back in the day had a so much life in them

[@maccagrabme]

He is the master of getting a big sound from few tracks, I think its his great basslines that fill out the tracks. Imagine if you could go back in time and hand Vince a modern day laptop with Cubase and a ton of softsynths, imagine what he would have come up with, let alone the shock that a tiny device could do all that.

[@Magnus_Loov]

@@maccagrabme Actually, even though he would be surprised, he probably would have been one of the people that got less surprised since at the time of the video, he already owned a Fairlight CMI 2 that had the very famous Page R. You can actually see the Fairlights screen in the video, although not on Page R, but another screen/page of the functions of the workstation that the Fairligth was. What that meant was that you had one of the earliest takes on what a DAW would be. It worked on samples (That of course could be manipulated) It had 8 voice cards which meant that up to 8 sounds could be played at the same time, either 8 totally different sounds (multitimbral) or some sounds with chords. All played with a velocity sensitive 88 key keyboard. They could then be sequenced in Page R where each track/part could be seen from left to right. You could rercord what you played on the keyboard in realtime (hence "Page R", R as in "real time") and you could quantize, edit etc. You navigated the screen with a light pen, just like a mouse. You could make a whole song, including drums, bass sounds, chords etc just using the Fairlight! It also had digital/Softsynth abilitiesk ie you could do some digital synthesis on it, but mostly more abstract stuff with additive syntheis, harmonics and the like (even on samples). Absolutely fantastic stuff at the time decades ahead of time. The problem was that it cost more than a house at the time... So yes, he would be surprised by todays technology, but given that he had seen what the Fairlight could do in 83 and knowing that stuff evolves he probably could expect this to happen!

[@GrotrianSeiler]

What a fantastic video from the past. He got so many people on the floor dancing. Brilliant.

[@djamesv]

I can't believe I've been a devoted Yaz/Erasure fan all these years and he just pushes a few buttons! :)

[@ramalama9650]

Mmmm, not quite. You try it.

[@djamesv]

@@ramalama9650 I was joking

[@tangerine825]

Mr.Vincent Clarke - Synthpop Genius ! Greets From Poland ;-)

[@MARobotham]

Awesome, never seen this before. Vince is the master :-)

[@acjazz01]

I love these documentaries showing great artists making music in their home studios.

[@andyg4082]

The very underrated and very talented Vince clarke🎹

[@baronmeduse]

Not underrated at all. The use of 'underrated' on YT is very overrated.

[@gush4119]

Fantastic. Vince with a fairlight!

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

awesome! takes me back to my teenage years.

[@adeh503]

Good to see Ron Jeremy twiddling some knobs at the end there 👌😉

[@SheepShearerMike]

Oh right, I wondered who the third chap was, thanks.

[@Pulsonar]

It’s weird to see these TV programs for the 1st time after 40+ years. The young Paul Gambaccini was everywhere too. Vince is my generation so I’m very familiar with the synth pop genre, how did I miss his ground breaking brilliance? What he’s doing manually on the archaic and primitive mixing machine is now incorporated in algorithms and computers for the last 20-30 years. It’s probably because I was so into Electrofunk and other rapidly developing underground dance music genres at the time that I was basically ignorant of the details and other ‘rival’ genres. The 80s was something special for pop music especially on the audio electronics and visual technology side. Pioneers like Kraftwerk helped instigate many of the sub genres of electronic music and contributed to others in the 70s. But I remember the 80s was when it truly mushroomed into massive commercial success with musicians taking what the pioneers started and then pushing the technology envelope.

[@hightower196X]

Vince and a Fairlight! Now I can go and die! ❤️🍻

[@jordan6988]

The song during the credits couldnt sound anymore 80s lol what a vibe.

[@grimlund]

Yeah. Sounds f-----g amazing.

[@andygriffith5160]

It couldn't sound any more 1983, in fact. It never ceases to amaze me how even individual years in the 80s had their own sound, such was the frenetic pace of music technology back then.

[@Cl4rendon]

Vince is like God to me - And when he speaks he sounds so modest & gentle. Alison did a good Job describing him in the song "Ode To Boy".

[@iSirTaki]

Nobody mastered the MC-4 like him!

[@user-ht9fr6eh9u]

Anything was possible. Now nothing is

[@justindawson5930]

The guy actually asked Vince for more cowbell! 2:47

[@topofthemornintoya]

The outro tune is absolute FIRE! neeed a wav of that 1

[@TheGodParticle]

Fairlight was such a incredible foundation for songs of that time, nick Rhodes used the device all the time throughout duran.

[@SvenWilliGerth]

Zu der Zeit gab es noch einen Korg Electribe MX1 ist eine richtig gute Maschine fährt die passende 80er rein Vincent bleib gesund ich weiß ja nicht ob du dachtest McCarthy kennst von Witze App total cool dass mein Lieblingsband

[@jasecee8992]

Little did Paul know with his choice of words, that the definition of creating new wave/electronic music, is like "building a house" was the birth of "house music"

[@Rhythmattica]

WOW!! Ive never seen this! Brilliant!

[@shhhhitsok92]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks a lot.... vince.... 🙂❤

[@trader4239]

That man was a pioneer and using a Fairlight CMI

[@bertvennemann189]

Also Peter Gabriel and Herbie Hancock !

[@vladikuz]

And J.M.Jarre!

[@Erasuretribute]

The wizardry that is Vince Clarke

[@gush4119]

A piece of history 😀👍

[@abstracttim7428]

awesome.. didn't give up the cowbell either 😁

[@peervincent7845]

The Fairlight CMI was worth millions coz in these days it's been almost the only thing what could produce sounds not from this world...

[@henrikchristensen8479]

1983:Blackwing studio in London,with very rare video clip with Mr Eric Radcliffe (Assembly,Yazoo,Depeche Mode)...

[@alexgomes4096]

Eric Radcliffe doesn't appear in this video

[@ohoganroad]

@@alexgomes4096 Thats Eric Radcliffe at the mixing desk in the end credits.

[@tweedtalk5107]

The interviewer Paul is the same guy who spoke to Depeche Mode in the epk for Songs of Faith and Devotion, albeit much younger.

[@FLH3official]

Thank you for this video. BtW I didn't know VC was using a Fairlight too in these times.

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

You hear it on You And Me Both. Don’t think it got used on Upstairs At Eric’s much.

[@FLH3official]

@@TheUnfinishedSynth 👍 . I will listen again this album and try to notice it.

[@skyemac8]

Downstairs at Eric’s!

[@richardmaddog1110]

Musical genius ❤

[@duboko3807]

Magnifique ❤

[@stoffenl]

This is why I started using KZbin in ‘06.

[@joseramoncastellanos3771]

Genial Vince ❤

[@hectorshouse7348]

Brill…never realised he was so nice 👍

[@phonkyfeel1]

I’m surprised by some of the close-minded comments that I found in this….mainly from people who seemingly have never used any of this equipment, yet feel entitled to make opinions about if it is difficult to produce. I can almost guarantee that if any of the haters on this thread had this same gear in front of them-they’d be scratching their head, and would have ZERO clue on how to get it to work. Electronic equipment is not better or worse than “typical” instruments (woodwind, brasswind, percussion, strings, etc).. Electronic music gear is a different animal, and there is definitely a learning curve. Amazing and complex music has been created utilizing these tools for expression. Some of the comments I’m reading seem to fall along the lines of “this seems (too) easy to make music so it’s bad”….and my favorite comment - “electronic music will never catch on” 😂😂😂 lol ok buddy. If you don’t like it, how did you end up watching the video and then going further to type a comment??

[@SpeccyMan]

There is a learning curve with any instrument. People are entitled to their own opinion, no matter how wrong you may think it is. Also, it is closed-minded. You're being extremely presumptuous, so does that make you any better than them? I enjoy music, both old and new. I'm not so sure your mind is as "open" as you may believe it to be.

[@lookoutleo]

It's a shame him and Alison didn't stay together , I loved yazoo. What's Vince doing now, I didn't know they used a fairlight , was that on upstairs at Eric's to? Loved that music so much

[@norakat]

Wow awesome

[@Wagoo]

This young lad only just put out his debut album last year! That means he must have been just playing about with these electronic gizmos for 40 years lol

[@SpeccyMan]

Seems he is getting into modular. That is one seriously expensive rabbit hole.

[@fenomenoideliv]

Su moda ochentera me gusta de vince clark su estilo cancionero 😊😊😊

[@TheUnfinishedSynth]

That end titles song is a banger. Shame it hasn’t turned up in any of the deluxe versions of Yazoo albums!

[@patrickmurphy5842]

Vince also did the theme tune for a summer bmx / motocross tv show in 1984

[@Sockieknowshockey]

Dr Mix needs to see this.

[@bertvennemann189]

Yes, i guess Claudio .... and Anthony .... will love this ! 😂

[@Streck0_909]

Obviously, he wanted more cowbell.

[@c.c4040]

03:40 sounds the style Depeche mode

[@komentatoriczepiacz9986]

He was in Depeche Mode

[@torsten1163]

Die erste Platte von DM war zum größten Teil von Vince...

[@MAXERNEST]

The Roland Mc 4 wasn`t cheap in the early 80`s , the A version being £1000 the B costing £500 quid more upgraded, also there is an interface called the OP 8 £550 ,and a MTR 100 digital cassette deck for saving your songs another £500 :} it had no internal Ram you switched it off it forgot everything hence the tape backup. ,all in £10k at todays prices . As for the fairlight .as far as i can remember cicrca £30.000 depending on series ,could buy you a decent house then :} i saw depeche mode on an early outing playing my local nightclub , in old Sheffield , it was called the some Bizarre tour , promoting the some bizarre album , along with other great artists ,happy days :}

[@Goettel]

Pioneer.

[@Ken_Casanova]

I want to dance to this in a club. Now!

[@broilerfresser9707]

HAMMER❤❤❤

[@janhelmle8173]

I want that pullover

[@SpeccyMan]

It is louder than any instrument in that room. 🤣

[@marclucas1683]

VINCE CLARKE EX ! DEPECHE MODE ! YAZOO ! DONT GO !!!!

[@KurtLorenz]

❤❤❤

[@meisterlymanu5214]

just this 1 clip will have viewers who just liked him, or liked Erasure or DM, or Moyet, or love synths, or love synths but are terrible players. The nostalgics, the Essex musicians, the programmer geeks, the Gambuccini fans, ....50 shades right there.

[@SpeccyMan]

Not a fan of the Gam, but I am a fan of Vince.

[@mike18699-e]

There's no doubt that Vince Clarke is a hugely accomplished accomplished creator of electronic music - but based on this video, his timing wasn't the greatest! It was all over the place while he was adding to those drum parts. Thank goodness for automatic quantizing. 🙂

[@SpeccyMan]

Bearing in mind the time of this video, it would be fair to say he was still learning his craft. Also, and I cannot emphasise this enough, perfect timing is not the Holy Grail.

[@MrEggcake]

That jumper though.

[@SpeccyMan]

Did you spot if it was fitted with a volume control? 😉 Funny thing is, I owned one similar to that (mine was purple) when I was a boy in the 60's.

[@artprojectsnz]

Solid as.

[@TomLens]

What is the title of this "song"? :)

[@Radianation]

I did a video on the local news like this when I was younger. Unlike Vince, I didn’t become famous lol 😅❤

[@johnwells558]

New to me too

[@milky4814]

How things have moved on.

[@davidbanwell7728]

Amazing to think you can all do this on a mobile phone now how far technology has come in music

[@iixorb]

Indeed you can (and then some 😂) but there’s definitely something special about having a bunch of kit MIDI’d together and sequenced from a hardware sequencer, instead of a DAW 👍. More satisfying I think, although definitely a pain!!!

[@discodave6153]

Any other episodes, was this a series?

[@jeyemarchives4006]

Yes it was. The one I have uploaded can be found here : check for my other The Other Side Of The Tracks series here : kzbin.info/door/obBgXhGGSZ1-UsZx9b3CdQsearch?query=other-side

[@czukone]

dare I ask you to hit the cowbell?

[@n.l.541]

Its like me showing new song to my wife)

[@josephclarke645]

Clarke With an E

[@ChromosomeSyndicate]

Is that a Soundtracs mixing desk ??

[@yournamehere7182]

With a typo they could have wound up being called Yahoo 🤷‍♂

[@hypnodelica]

I'm sure it's not, but the vocal sounds like John Foxx

[@Theodisc]

I never knew he had hair! I thought he was born bald.

[@SpeccyMan]

Hair today. Gone tomorrow.

[@AndrewHillis_2024]

Who Is Paul Gambaccini ? ? ?

[@badgastein2]

Paul Gambaccini has the world’s best memory for remembering the titles and names of the “B’ sides of UK single chart records - so they say. He compiled the Guinness Book of UK Singles with Sir Tim Rice and also has a similar memory for US Billboard. He has been a BBC DJ for over 40 years.

[@AlanPurpleOwls]

Is that eric radcliffe there too?

[@cph2004]

Vince was definitely inspired by kraftwerk

[@jaggass]

It's quite sad that Vince and Alison never worked in the same room.

[@grimlund]

What? Did they never worked together in the studio?

[@EmArgh]

Defo sounds like a Depeche Mode song at the end

[@NITE_SHIFTING]

GAWDAMN.

[@edsonsantiago9135]

0:39

[@heavensopen]

Very Kraftwerk, the track.

[@SpeccyMan]

Hardly.

[@vivianfranco2640]

I love you🌺

[@zenithonyt]

everyone knows that creator?

[@cuttlefishpie3731]

He nicked my Dad’s sweater

[@andywatts8654]

He sounds like David beckham

[@2sing]

suono debole e piatto con una loudness inconsistente, eppure a quel tempo sembrava ottimo

[@JOCKATEO]

sounds like that Bollywood rip off of Michael Jackson thriller at 01:25

[@robertmilne4304]

He's an excellent broadcaster but looks like a fish out of water here.

[@upthebuffer1921]

This electronic music stuff will never catch on. Pushing buttons isn't making music.

[@phonkyfeel1]

It did in fact catch on! And decades ago! And hasn’t really ever slowed down, despite your disdain for it. But that didn’t do anything to slow down the popularity of great music being made by creative people. If you actually KNEW all that is involved in the creation process-you yourself would probably be scratching your head, very confused, and lost in the technical aspects. I’m saying that you have no idea, and it’s WAY more than just pushing buttons.

[@marguskiis7711]

Clarke had ultra expensive gear to create so simple sounds.

[@rdubb77]

The gear was expensive and monophonic, that seems to negate your point.

[@marguskiis7711]

@@rdubb77 he bought a Fairlight visible here too

[@rdubb77]

@@marguskiis7711 Don't know what the polyphony of the Fairlight is, but pretty much any music made in the 80's utilizing it (or other synths for that matter) is pretty minimal.

[@marguskiis7711]

@@rdubb77 simple synths made minimal sounds. Fairlight was polyphonic keyboard.

[@dglcomputers1498]

@@rdubb77 8 voices, interestingly he didn't use the Fairlight for that long as it got damaged in a basement flood , supposedly it got restored a few years ago. DM/Martin made fun of if Fairlight purchase by putting the word "Fairlite" on the back of a little Casio keyboard which Martin had on top of his PPG Wave in some live videos.

[@Cantrip1957]

Paul G is so earnest!

[@smacloopy4029]

The American dude doesn't look too impressed.

[@LFOVCF]

Paul Gambaccini is a very well known and respected American broadcaster, who has lived in the UK for probably 50 years or more. He has been on BBC radio for decades too. Speaking as a self confessed synth nerd like Vince, most people cannot comprehend what we are talking about, and a lack of enthusiasm is common. Even my wife fakes it (the synth enthusiasm i mean lol)

[@smacloopy4029]

@@LFOVCF Yes, i´m a fellow synth nerd and know exactly what you mean.

[@danielleehim3077]

@@smacloopy4029 He's using a linn drum but whats that kit on the left is that an early sequencer - you can see the keypad on it?!

[@danielleehim3077]

sorry on the right must be a hardware midi sequencer

[@danielleehim3077]

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