ALL'S FORGOTTEN (1984 CASSETTE DEMO) by Mark Lilley published on 2020-07-11T16:33:05Z ALL'S FORGOTTEN (1984 CASSETTE DEMO) (Composed, arranged, performed and produced by Mark Lilley Copyright © ℗ 1984) MARK LILLEY Moog Rogue / Roland SH101 / Yamaha MK100 / Drum programming (age 13) SALLYANN KIRBY Vocals (age 13) KEN COOK Sound Engineer / Mixing / Tascam 144 Multitrack Memoirs of a synthesizer whizkid... In 1984 monophonic sequencers cost the earth and polyphonic sequencers were only a figment of our New Romantic imagination, I played everything by hand. I studied the piano and composed music from the age of 6, I don't know how or why I was given this awesome gift but it saved my life and became my life too. Between school homework, painting artwork on our 'Lucian Ercolani' Ercol drop-leaf dining table for John Flamsteed School's art-block walls, kissing girls behind the old school bikesheds, swing jumping competitions and climbing trees on Kilburn park, wearing New Romantic make-up, walking along trainlines holding hands with my first girlfriend, jumping Bottle Brook at lunchtime, catching the 125 bus to Derby searching for rare 12" Depeche Mode and Yazoo records, family holidays to Tenby, playing tennis during the 6 weeks school holidays on John Flamsteed School tennis courts, I studied the piano from the age of six and began prolifically composing a vast body of work using then pioneering but now coveted vintage analogue synthesizers/sequencers/drum machines and engineering/producing/recording them on my Fostex Multitrack Studio. I became a paid composer at the age of 14 and was commissioned to write the soundtrack for Estate Agent's promotional films showcasing their client's homes using Betamax and VHS video. During my lifetime on planet Earth I've amassed a vast body of work, material that will never see the light of day in my professional composer's canon, so here are some cassette demos from that magical era for posterity, written, composed, arranged and produced by me during my happy childhood - surrounded by love, my family and best friends and recorded in my beloved bedroom studio at Dale View Gardens, Kilburn, Derbyshire. Genre Electronic