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What a journey Chris! Thank you for taking us along with you, it's been a bumpy ride, but your enthusiasm and warmth has really shone through. Not only have you a working CMI now, but an amazing insight to it's working, its development and the incredible people and stories behind it. Oh, and a bunch of good friends to boot. The party in Aus lifted the project to a whole new level too, bringing it to a piece of genuine music industry historical importance. It couldn't have been more timely, with the sad death of Joe Hammer, a very special moment to see the Fairlight gang enjoying their company. Would love to see and hear more, but realise it's a time consuming excercise to put these things out, it's all been appreciated!

The break-up of the Minimoog and then rack-mounting from a pool of Minimoogs? Wow, I would have been PISSED!

22:34 Aristotle: 'The whole is more than the sum of its parts.' I was lucky back in the late 80's to have a friend that had a DX7. We were sequencing, and layering the DX7 with a cheap very simple analogue synth was the best

20:53 … The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine would have been a very different song, if the 106 or BSII had been invented at the time … 🔊

At 3:33 it sounds like a Tibetan playing a jaw harp and a bird is sitting on his shoulder chirping along. Nice review. Only wish for next time,,,,, please line out recording ….. 👍

This is giving me Boner, no kidding.

Do you have lcd screen for korg x50?

One of your alleged employee, who may be a service technician for your company, boasted on a FB page that he had numerous vintage synths when he was 17, including a Memorymoog, and even a tattoo when he was 12 (which is weird), in a very off-putting way. He had multiple people telling him that his gear is not what makes his music any good and he is a snob. This man might be able to fix synths, but he is not all OK in the head imho.. Beware of this bearded, tattooed 23ish years old man you may employ, don't let him ruin anything in your company or damage PR. I hope he is just an unrelated troll, in that case disregard this message.

Sick it seam to be ahead of its time

Hat off mate!! I've been following this since day 1.. Bloody brilliant !! (also from Australia - Adelaide, South Australia)

Great work, Chris; I enjoyed the video and seeing the Mates down under, especially Uncle Joe and Ed.

Fake band.

Great episode - but how can it be done before the keyboard is finished :( Eagerly awaiting the next project.

You're BACK! Yay!

Great video, especially with all the old Fairlight guys ! I've watched this series from the very beginning and it's been a fantastic project - BUT, I feel that "calling it done" now, is a bit premature.... After all this, surely we need to see the final, final finished Fairlight, all fully/finally assembled, components together, and working.... The "Brochure Shot" ?!? Please ;-)

You fabricated a beautiful plate. I kind of wish you had let the episode end in the win. I have a laser cutter and I’ve used them for years and I had never heard of that Brilliance stuff. I need to order that RIGHT NOW. Here’s a forehead-smacker for you: painting in the logo fill would have been less stressful if you had stuck blue tape on scrap wood and used your engraver to cut the logo through the tape and made a mask. It would have fit perfectly over the logo on the plate and protected you from painting outside the lines.

Damn, what a video. Top notch.

Good to see you again Cris loved every video you've done so far so more is even better

26:46 Wow OMG. 80s

Great to see this project still going, it's been a long journey, both figuratively and literally. lol Also good to see the trip to the homeland of Fairlight. I remember watching the Jean-Michel Jarre concert on VHS, around 2014, with my parents. Little did we know that Joe Hammer was there all along. RIP, Joe. Thanks for sharing this story, Cris.

Wow, memories pop up .. I wrote the assembly code for the Atari (to the CMI) when a huge studio needed it in Stockholm back in the 80s .. So simple and yet so much fun :)

It was again very entertaining. What a journey to get these rare parts for a Fairlight. 44 minutes video seemed to last only 10 minutes.

Can't believe you came all the way to Sydney! Hope you had a blast mate!

As an Australian that lives in Sydney, I've always been fascinated and proud of the Fairlight story, it was such a great technological innovation of its time by some Australians having so much influence in the world of music. It has been great following your journey with this CMI build. There is a great short RUclips documentary done by one of out local news agencies that give a great overview of the Fairlight history: - ruclips.net/video/jkiYy0i8FtA/видео.html

I like how the teleport thingo beamed Mr Rance into the photo @ 24:52! 🤣

17.8.24: Tangerine Dream, ToDays Festival 2024, Torino, Italy. UK tour dates: 16.8.24: Tangerine Dream, A New Day Festival, Faversham, England. 7.10.24: Tangerine Dream, ‘Celebrating 50 years of Phaedra’, Barbican Centre, London, England. POLISH tour dates: 4.12.24: Tangerine Dream, Poznań, Poland. 5.12.24: Tangerine Dream, Warsaw, Poland. 6.12.24: Tangerine Dream, Kraków, Poland. 7.12.24: Tangerine Dream, Szczecin, Poland. 29.6.25: Tangerine Dream, Grafenegg, Austria.

It was great to watch.

Fabulous stuff mate, thanks for sharing, especially the party and the people with their stories. I never knew about the Porsche door-closing bass drum thing, wow!

amazing doccy

I can’t believe it’s done. Following this from afar has felt like a part of my life!

I’ve really enjoyed watching this project. Loved this last episode what with all the Fairlight guys insights. Great work Chris!

I really would like to hear music from it now.

35:31 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!

Man, I've been following the whole story...You're crazy! I LOVE it... 🙂 What an iconic machine! What iconic people! Great!

The background music is again really amazing!! Great Video, thanks...

Why should anyone need the syntaur service when the not even can repair a machine like that?

Really interesting Fairlight-insides and as always very entertaining...

So glad to hear from you again. This is a golden episode!!

Thanks for sharing this journey, and the people behind the fair light. Hope you can enjoy the end result and looking forward to your next project!

R.I.P Joe , I was also at the dockland concert and it was one of the best ive seen and listend to , Great Video chris

Such great three years for us! Thanks❤❤❤❤❤

Would love to see more of the Sydney fairlight party

Cris, please post all of your other footage, we would love to see it... PS. Did you hear the Ontario Government is closing OUR Ontario Science Centre... Where both of our Fairlight journeys began back in the early 80s!

thanx a lot !

This utterly bugged me at how long this took… I’m OKAY with it though ❤ Loved watching this journey chap, all the details, & the relationships with legends you created along the way! I’d love to see more on the next projects & definitely the Synthflex trip (what’s JJ Abraham’s doing at a geeky synth show!?) All in all, well done man, well done 🙂

That has really been a passion project, hasn't it?!

Stunning video - well done!

Wonderful episode. Someday I'll binge the whole series again. One of the best things I've seen on youtube. And that bit with the keyboard in the car reminded me so much of when I picked up my ESQ-1 in a Boxster.

I loved the car door kick drum they used on The Voice. Great stuff.

Love waking on a Saturday morning to this grand video! This adventure has been so great to follow 💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥