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1956
Babe and Louis Barron create the soundtrack for the film "Forbidden Planet"
1959
Tom Dissevelt and Kid Baltan "Vibration"
1962
Jean Jacques Perrey "Musique Electronique Du Cosmos" (album)
23rd Nov 1963
first airing of "Doctor Who" (T.V.show)
1964
first Moog prototype delivered to Herb Deutsch
1965
first Buchla delivered to Morton Subotnik and Ramon Sender at the San Francisco Tape Music Center commissioned in 1963
1966
Perrey and Kingsley "The In Sounds From Way Out!" album
July 1967
Morton Subotnik "Silver Apples Of The Moon"
1967
Perrey and Kingsley "Kaleidoscopic Vibrations" album
1968
"The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound Of Jean-Jacques Perrey" (album)
October 1968
Wendy Carlos "Switched On Bach"
1969
Gershon Kingsley "Popcorn"
1969
Gershon Kingsley "Music To Moog By" album
28 Aug 1969
"Jazz In The Garden" demo of 4 Moog Modulars
Nov 1969
Terry Riley "A Rainbow In Curved Air" album
Jan 1970
first Moog Minimoog released comercially. (seen on stage Aug 5 1970)
15 June 1970
Jean-Jacques Perrey "Moog Indigo" album
15 June 1971
Tonto's Expanding Head Band "Zero Time" album
September 71
Micheal Holm "Nachts Scheint Die Sonne".
music written by GIORGIO MORODER (not synths though)
December 1971
Giorgio (Moroder) "Son Of My Father" advance copy exists before Christmas Eve.
February 1972
Chicory Tip "Son Of My Father" recorded Christmas Eve 1971
17 June 1972
Disney use a version of JJP+GK's "Baroque Hoedown" for their "electrical Light Parade"
1st March 1973
Pink Floyd "On The Run" on "Dark Side Of The Moon" album
31st March 1973
Herbie Hancock "Rain Dance" on "Sextant" album
20 Feb 1974
Tangerine Dream "Phaedra"
12 April 1974
Isao Tomita "Snowflakes Are Dancing" (synth arrangements of DEBUSSEY compositions) (extensive use of MELLOTRON)
(???) 1974
Tonto's Expanding Head Band "It's About Time" album
November 1974
Kraftwek "Autobahn" (album)
21 March 75
Tangerine Dream "Rubycon"
Aug 75
Klaus Schulze "Timewind"
Nov 75
Kraftwek "Radioactivity" (album) (German version)
Dec 75
Vangelis "Heaven And Hell"
Dec 75
Tangerine Dream "Ricochet" (live album)
1976
short film made by Devo. includes "Secret Agent Man"
9 Oct 1976
Vangelis "Albedo 0.39" (album)
Oct 76
Tangerine Dream "Stratosfear"
5 December 76
Jean Michel Jarre "Oxygene" (album) (released in France)
21 March 1977
Kraftwerk "Trans Europe Express" (album)
2 July 1977
Donna Summer (and Giorgio Moroder) "I Feel Love"
22 July 77
Giorgio Moroder "From Here To Eternity" (album)
Sept 77
Giorgio Moroder "From Here To Eternity" (single)
Dec 77
Vangelis "Spiral"
Mar 78
Tangerine Dream "Cyclone"
19 May 78
Kraftwerk "The Man Machine (album). includes "The Model"
30 June 78
The Human League "Being Boiled"
8 Sept 78
Ultravox (inc. John Foxx) "Systems Of Romance" (7 rock + 3 synth tracks)
6 Oct 78
Giorgio Moroder "Midnight Express" (soundtrack)
Nov 78
The Normal (Daniel Miller) "Warm Leatherette"
25 Nov 78
Yellow Magic Orchestra "Yellow Magic Orchestra" (album) (Japan release. w/w rel May 1979)
recorded Nov 78
Richard (Rik) Davis "Methane Sea"
Dec 78
Jean Michel Jarre "Equinoxe"
March 79
M (Robin Scott) "Pop Musik"
March 79
John Foxx leaves Ultravox
April 79
Tubeway Army "Replicas" (album)
April 79
The Human League "The Dignity Of Labour (parts 1-4)"
4 May 79
Tubeway Army "Are 'Friends' Electric?"
21 May 79
O.M.D. "Electricity" b/w "Almost"
21 Aug 79
Gary Numan "Cars"
7 Sept 79
Gary Numan "The Pleasure Principle" (album)
25 Sept 79
Yellow Magic Orchestra "Solid State Survivor" (album)
Oct 79
The Human League "Empire State Human"
Oct 79
The Human League "Reproduction (album)"
Dec 79
Throbbing Gristle "20 Jazz Funk Greats" (album)
15 jan 80
John Foxx "Underpass"
18 jan 80
John Foxx "Metamatic" (album)
1 Feb 80
O.M.D. "Red Frame / White Light"
22 Feb 80
O.M.D. "O.M.D" (album)
April 80
The Human League "Holiday '80" (EP)
2 May 80
O.M.D. "Messages"
14 May 80
The Human League "Travelogue (album)"
16 May 80
Devo "Freedom Of Choice" (album)
24 May 80
Gary Numan "We Are Glass"
June 80
Ultravox (inc. Midge Ure) "Sleepwalk"
July 80
Ultravox (inc. Midge Ure) "Vienna" (album)
summer 80
ODW "Nightlife" (design Records)
13 Aug 80
Devo "Whip It"
5 Sept 80
Gary Numan "Telekon" (album)
Autumn 80
The Human League split! Martyn Ware kicked out of his own band!
26 Sept 80
O.M.D. "Enola Gay"
24 Oct 80
O.M.D. "Organisation" (album)
3 Nov 80
ODW "Lawnchairs" (design Records)
Nov 80
Visage (inc. Midge Ure and Billy Currie) "Fade To Grey"
9 Jan 81
Ultravox (inc. Midge Ure) "Vienna" (single)
Feb 81
The Human League (new line-up) "Boys And Girls"
20 Feb 81
Depeche Mode "Dreaming Of Me"
28 Feb 81
Landscape "Einstein a Go-Go"
6 Mar 81
Heaven 17 "Fascist Groove Thang"
April 81
The Human League "The Sound Of The Crowd" (1st chart single)
10 May 81
Kraftwerk "Computer World" (album)
22 May 81
J. M. Jarre "Magnetic Fields"
26 May 81
Ultravox "All Stood Still"
29 May 1981
Depeche Mode "New Life"
July 1981
Soft Cell "Tainted Love"
27 July 81
The Human League "Love Action" (b/w "Hard Times")
4 Aug 81
O.M.D. "Souvenir"
14 Aug 81
Ultravox "The Thin Wall"
26 Aug 81
Devo "New Traditionalists" (album)
18 Sept 81
Depeche Mode "Just Can't Get Enough"
3 Oct 81
Thomas Dolby "Europa And The Pirate Twins"
5 Oct 81
Depeche Mode "Speak And Spell" (album)
16 Oct 81
The Human League "Dare" (album) produced by Martin Rushent
24 Oct 81
O.M.D. "Architechture & Morality" (album)
late 81
Vince leaves DM!
29 Oct 81
Soft Cell "Bedsitter"
27 Nov 81
Soft Cell "Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret"
27 Nov 81
The Human League "Dont You Want Me?"
15 Jan 82
O.M.D. "Maid Of Orleans" (the waltz Joan Of Arc)
Jan 82
Soft Cell "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye"
29 Jan 82
Depeche Mode "See You"
15 Mar 82
Yazoo "Only You" (B-side: "Situation")
13 May 82
Thomas Dolby "The Golden Age Of Wireless" (album)
May 82
J. M. Jarre "The Concerts In China"
June 82
Soft Cell "Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing"
5 July 82
Yazoo "Don't Go"
23 July 82
Thomas Dolby "Windpower"
31 July 82
Afrika Bambaataa "Planet Rock" (produced by Arthur Baker)
20 Aug 82
Yazoo "Upstairs At Erics" (album)
27 Sept 82
Depeche Mode "A Broken Frame" (album)
22 Oct 82
Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science"
8 Nov 82
Eurythmics "Love Is A Stranger"
21 Jan 83
Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)"
11 Feb 83
O.M.D. "Genetic Engineering"
7 March 83
New Order "Blue Monday" (12" only)
1983 (March?)
Cybertron "Clear"
2 May 83
New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies" (album)
9 May 83
Yazoo "Nobody's Diary"
June 1983
Kraftwerk "Tour De France"
17 June 83
Freeez "i-o-u" (produced by Arthur Baker, Jellybean & John Robie)
4 July 83
Yazoo "You And Me Both" (album) (last Yazoo Release)
11 July 83
Depeche Mode "Everything Counts"
31 July 83
EBN/OZN "AEIOU (Sometimes Y)" (recorded in 1981, played at The Roxy by Afrika Bambaataa in 1982)
22 Aug 83
Depeche Mode "Construction Time Again" (album)
July 83
Herbie Hancock "Rockit"
Aug 83
Herbie Hancock "Future Shock" (album)
17 Sept 83
Howard Jones "New Song"
Nov? 83
Severed Heads "Since The Accident" (album)
5 Mar 84
Howard Jones "What Is Love?"
Feb 84
Severed Heads "Dead Eyes Opened" (12" single")
Feb 84
Nik Kershaw "Dancing Girls"
12 Mar 84
Depeche Mode "People Are People"
5 Mar 84
Howard Jones "Human's Lib" (album)
7 May 84
The Human League "Hysteria" (album)
May 84
Bronski Beat "Smalltown Boy"
the death of music
Aug 84
Alphaville "Big In Japan"
20 Aug 84
Depeche Mode "Master And Servant"
24 Sept 84
Depeche Mode "Some Great Reward (album)"
Sept 84
Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey "Together In Electric Dreams" (single)
Oct 84
Cabaret Voltaire "Sensoria/Do Right" mix (7"+12")
Nov 84
Cabaret Voltaire "Micro-phonies" (album)
Nov 84
Jean Michel Jarre "Zoolook" (album)
30 Nov 84
Jean Michel Jarre "Zoolook" (single)
Feb 85
Severed Heads "Goodbye Tonsils" (singl)
Feb 85
Severed Heads "City Slab Horror" (album)
2 Sept 85
Erasure "Who Needs Love Like That? " (1st Erasure Release)
17 Mar 86
Depeche Mode "Black Celebration (album)"
5 April 86
Jean Michel Jarre "Rendez-Vous" (album)
1 May 86/ 2 Jun 86
Erasure "Wonderland" (1st album)
1986
Larry Heard (as "Mr Fingers") "Washing Machine"
6 Oct 86
Erasure "Sometimes" (1st UK chart single. got to No2!)
10 Nov 86
Kraftwerk "Electric Cafe " (album)
Dec 86
Steve Silk Hurley "Jack Your Body (Original Mix)"
1987
Phuture "Acid Tracks" (reported to be the first use of a TB-303 in that squelchy way) (probably played at a club by Ron Hardy in 1986 from a cassette)
30 Mar 87
Erasure "The Circus" (album)
3 Aug 87
M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume"
28 Sept 87
Depeche Mode "Music For The Masses (album)"
18 Apr 88
Erasure "The Innocents" (album)
Aug 88
Jean Michel Jarre "Revolutions"
28 Nov 88
Erasure "Crackers International", 4-track E.P. (main single "Stop!")
25 Mar 89
A Guy Called Gerald "Voodoo Ray" (1st UK chart entry)
aug 89
Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus"
18 Sept 89
Erasure "Drama!"
16 Oct 89
Erasure "Wild!" (album)
21 Nov 89
808 State "Pacific 707"
1 Dec 89
Orbital "Chime"
1 Dec 89
Adamski "N-R-G"
5 Feb 90
Depeche Mode "Enjoy The Silence"
19 Mar 90
Depeche Mode "Violator" (album)
26 July 90
LFO "LFO"
11 June 91
Kraftwerk "The Mix" (remix album. Mostly the result of updating live arrangements over the years)
17 Jun 91
Erasure "Chorus" (single)
9 Sept 91
Erasure "Love To Hate You"
14 Oct 91
Erasure "Chorus" (album)
1 June 92
Recoil (Alan Wilder) "Bloodline" (album)
1 June 92
Erasure "ABBA-esque" (including "Take A Chance On Me")
under construction