Fairlight Children

See all 3 pictures

Play Radio

Listen to Fairlight Children Radio, featuring artists like Apoptygma Berzerk, Seabound, Code 64, Echo Image and more…

• 
  Search on Spotify

  Yes, it scrobbles! Learn more

144,851 plays (15,912 listeners)
In your library (0 plays)

Shop now at Amazon | Send Fairlight Children Ringtones to Cell

More options

• Download
• Amazon
• Send Ringtones to Cell
• Tonefuse Search

Add to my Library

Fairlight Children is an electroclash side project from Stephan Groth of Apoptygma Berzerk. The band has two other members, Tiff and Marianne, whose potential participation level beyond backing vocals has not been publicly discussed.

The band name was inspired by the vintage digital synthesizer Fairlight CMI, considered by many to be the quintessential sound of the 1980s. Another nod goes to the Fairlight computer scene group that produced demos on the Commodore 64 computer (and also took its name from the synth). The distinctive sound of the C-64’s SID chip, already found on APB tracks as “64k” and “APB Goes C-64”, has an even stronger influence on the music of Fairlight Children.

The group’s first album, 808 bit, was released in March 2004. The original cover art listed two of the songs in wrong order — this was corrected for subsequent batches. The album title is a pun on the Roland TR-808 (a classic analog drum machine) and 8-bit (the machine architecture of the Commodore 64 and other early home computers).

Read more… Edit

Popular tags: synthpop, electronic, futurepop, electropop, electroclash  See more

Shouts: 23 shouts

Share this artist:

• Send
• Tweet

Top Albums

• 808 Bit
  Fairlight Children

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon $14.80
  • eBay Search
• Before You Came Along
  Fairlight Children

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• 808bit
  Fairlight Children

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search
• Before You Came Along CDM
  Fairlight Children

  Buy

  • Download Album
  • Amazon MP3 Search
  • 7digital Search
  • iTunes Search
  • Buy Album
  • Amazon Search
  • eBay Search

Top Tracks

• Last Week
• Last 6 months

1		Falling Out			16
2		Before You Came Along			12
3		Before You Came Along (Spztx remix)			10
3		Before You Came Along (Echo Image remix)			10
3		Falling Out (Pleasure remix)			10
3		Before You Came Along (radio edit)			10
7		Electropulse			7
8		Microhard			6
8		Before You Came Around			6
8		Invade My Heart Tonight			6
11		Bedsitter			5
12		Big City Girl			4
12		808bit			4
12		New Age			4
15		Bedsitter (Cover Version)			2

Buy all tracks at Amazon MP3

See more