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When New life come out i was obsessed by DM...it 100% turned me on to new wave and electronic music...human league,soft cell,OMD,Yazoo,kraftwerk from Germany etc❤

A time when the pop industry created a vision through video of an always right independent class superiority.

Phil oakey comes across as a bloody nice bloke ,he also invented the window sill,what a ledge.

I think it’s time for Phillip to have his say 🫶🫶

I remember the landing of Gary Numan being the big bang of British electronic pop music. That was the actual start of the synth pop invasion of the charts. One of the greatest moments in pop history.

Смотрю и слушаю всё это и руки так и тянутся синтезатору повторить всё это. Ещё бы научиться на нём играть.

You won't see a documentary with this quality made now on the BBC.

This Documentary,is not about only UK Synthpop,is a about the 80s Pop Music,the mainstream 80s music at all...

We're living in the future, and definitely it's not what we've paid for. We demand a refund.

Funny id always considered the importance of independents for punk and later guitar bands and of course acid house. But id never really considered their importance to synth pop too. Imagine how awful music and youth culture would have been in 70s 80s and 90s with out them. How lucky was my generation ?!!

Kebu,es muy bueno, pero...para los que crecimos con Jean Michel Jarré, no podemos negar que fué es y será el precursor de toda esta música y el MAESTRO de MAESTROS, por siempre y para siempre, indiscutido a través de generaciones.👍💪💪💪👏👏👏

Numan reigns.

Blue Monday must have fallen threw a worm hole as it was years ahead of its time. top dance tune. But Red Mecca also a great tune and the sound of 81. Gary Numan is the reason I still love dance music today,

FANTASTICO

Re watchable Magic👍

Thanks to Behringer, classic old synths are being resurrected and made affordable to all. So now, we await the next phase of synth Britannia...

"felt like everything was moving....to the right", this and Im sure of it was the moment the country changed and never went back everything spiraled out of control being controlled by crime.

This is great , taking me right back . I was 13 in 1981 , British synth was so much more sophisticated than other countries apart from Kraftwerk . Definitely will be watching this again 👍

A year has passed, so it about time to watch it the fourth time.

Two mentions of Tomorrow’s World but no mention of Denton & Cook’s amazing intro music. I suppose it wasn’t Synth pop per se but I loved it.

Great docu

Who are the act who get slated at 1:24:50 ?

As far as I'm concerned, music died at the end of the 80s. An iconic decade for sure and the soundtrack to my teen years.

Rifado el aporte elemento!

2024 and the PSB’s still using that Beethoven ‘ruuummphhh’ 🤪

This is my "go to!" for a synth documentary, I absolutely love this and watched it again today 🥰 Wished I could have been older to have experienced this first hand! Especially the Hammersmith in 1980 for Gary Numan's gig and many others!

The tune being played at 49:32, is that an actual working of something, sounds amazing I've always thought.. ❤

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.❤amazing, my m King of music electronic❤

29:26

Blancmange? One of the greatest of them all.

Great memories❤I still love most of my youth favourites like Visage, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Ultravox, DM, Yazoo, ÖMD… Sad, I haven’t seen any of them live. Thanks for this excellent doc!

Superb documentary. Funny intro though "..a time when machines ruled the world..." as if they dont anymore..... lol I think listening to Andy McCluskey talk about seeing Kraftwerk, proves that the real revolution in music, the real sea change, was this, not punk. After all, as Martyn Ware says, punk was still verse-chorus-guitar-drums-bass so really it wasn't different at all, just faster and more phlegm. Its just SO impossible to explain now just how exciting Are Friends Electric was, and Cars. My local ice rink always played it. It was just a huge sound that fitted a huge room, and his look, everything. Its never lost that, for me. And he's such a nice bloke, so down to earth. 42:00 again Andy is SPOT on. I fucking despite all that 'real music' bullshit. Especially as i get older and i realise it just doesnt matter how music originates. 1:10:00. there it is.

2nd part is mainly about Depeche Mode. Brilliant band!

That posh boy is so boring. Everything else tho is class!

I feel somewhat sentimental watching this being born 1970 and growing up during that time. The song Love Action by The Human League was actually the very song that got me into synth music from the start. I was previously listening to Gasoline (Danish rock band) and got gob smacked by the sample&hold sound in the song Love Action.

Brilliant 👍🏼

Infumable el pelado de human league.... El ego por las nubes, juntalo Juan ramón carrasco, y te dicen que crearon el mundo! What an ego!!

🎉so LUCKY 😮😅❤

When I first saw this documentary back all those years ago, I remember being completely hooked and I watched it over and over on iPlayer. I was living in Manchester at the time and the music perfectly encapsulated the bleakness of the grey, the concrete, the high rise buildings and the noise of the North. I couldn’t stop listening to nothing but synth music and reading JG Ballard for a good few months.

Loving music from classical to hard rock, synth just hits on such a deep level that no other music does, its really difficult to explain. Im a child of synth

I Thought 2HB was about a pencil 😂

Супер молодцы ребята. Браво. Спасибо вам за диско музыку. Ждём новых песен и альбом в 2024г.😊❤❤❤

Punk + synthesizers = Nitzer Ebb

I was in my 20's in the 80's. The music was life changing. The music out of Britain changed my life. I dont play anymore, I'll leave that to todays kids. Thank you for this vid. I'm having a cold beer, reliving the nights, the music, the throb of life in Darlinghurst on Oxford Street. Sydney rocked.🥰

Mince Britania

It’s weird that clockwork and 2001 space odyssey have the same dystopian feeling

Depeche mode speak and spell sits along sex pistols, never mind the bollocks and Joy division, unknown pleasures. All first albums and my favioute albums

ITALOVE IS THE BEST.WE ARE SUPPORT ALL OF YOU . POILIHS PEOPLE .MY CZEKAMY NA WAS ITALOLOVE W LONDYNIE.WE ARE WAITING IN LONDON FOR YOU TO PLAY