Gear · sampler
Fairlight Fairlight sampler (model not stated)
Records it appears on · 1
- Heartbeat City
The Cars · Album, 1984
- Drums · InstrumentVerifiedRobinson says every drum beat on the album was played back from the Fairlight, built from his own sampled drum sounds and his own programmed rhythms.
- Keyboards · InstrumentVerifiedRobinson says all the album's keyboard parts were on the Fairlight, with Hawkes's synthesiser-style sounds loaded into it for convenience and flexibility.
Sources for each use are on the record’s own page.
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