This page contains interesting insights into how a variety of albums were produced at the time. This links into component 3 and gives an insight into different production methods per era. I’ve also tried to make the albums as interesting to listen to as possible!
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Fleetwood Mac – ‘Rumours’ (1977)
Rumours is the eleventh studio album by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on 4 February 1977. Recorded with the intention of making ‘a pop album’ that would expand on the commercial success of their self-titled 1975 album, the music of Rumours is characterised by a mix of electric and acoustic instrumentation, accented rhythms,… Read more
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Daft Punk – ‘Random Access Memories’ (2014)
Random Access Memories, finds Daft Punk leaving behind the highly influential, riff-heavy EDM they originated for the sounds, styles, and production techniques of the 1970s and early 80s. So we get a mix of disco, soft rock, and prog-pop, along with some Broadway-style pop bombast and even a few pinches of their squelching stadium-dance aesthetic. Read more
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Air – ‘Moon Safari’ (1997)
Released in 1998 to a relatively muted response in their native France, but massive success and critical acclaim in the UK (then just sweating off the last remnants of Britpop), the record would become an almost overnight modern classic. It’s aural textures were gentle, but fascinating, making it an easy buy for devotees of wildly… Read more
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Calvin Harris – ‘I Created Disco’ (2008)
“All of that first album [2007’s I Created Disco] was recorded on the Amiga setup. It was all done in my bedroom in Dumfries, before I got any interest from the music business. “All I had was the Amiga 1200, the Korg M1 provided loads of sounds for the first album, a huge, 32-channel Soundcraft… Read more