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dannygold · 5th July 2009

I'm going to go with 1991-1992. Maybe not a popular choice, but I like a lot of records from this period. People had to some degree moved on from the 80s sound (but not to the point of it being post grunge) and were using technology in a different way... for example it was the early days of using sequencers that did midi AND audio (vision) and people were using DAT to great advantage for things like location sound gathering and multiple mixes that could then be edited together. A few records that I think are technologically groundbreaking from this era:

U2-Achtung Baby
Peter Gabriel-US
Thomas Dolby-Astronauts and Heritics
Depeche Mode-Violator

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5th July 2009	#47
dannygold Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,851	I'm going to go with 1991-1992. Maybe not a popular choice, but I like a lot of records from this period. People had to some degree moved on from the 80s sound (but not to the point of it being post grunge) and were using technology in a different way... for example it was the early days of using sequencers that did midi AND audio (vision) and people were using DAT to great advantage for things like location sound gathering and multiple mixes that could then be edited together. A few records that I think are technologically groundbreaking from this era: U2-Achtung Baby Peter Gabriel-US Thomas Dolby-Astronauts and Heritics Depeche Mode-Violator Flame suit on? __________________ Danny Gold