Artist: Thomas Dolby Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Discography:
Gate to the Mind's Eye Year: 1994
Tracks: 10
Though he never had many hits, Doubting Thomas Dolby became one of the most recognisable figures of the synth-pop movement of early-'80s freshly moving ridge. For the most part, this was due to his skillful merchandising. Dolby promoted himself as a tolerant of mad scientist, an egghead that had successfully harnassed the mogul of synthesizers and samplers, exploitation them to get to catchy pop and light electro-funk. Before he launched a solo life account, Dolby had worked as a studio instrumentalist, technician, and songwriter; his most noteworthy act upon as a ballad maker was "Freshly Toy," which he wrote for Lene Lovich, and Whodini's "Magic's Wand." In 1981, he launched a solo life account, which resulted in a number of small fry hits and 2 big hits -- "She Blinded Me with Skill" (1982) and "Overactive" (1984). Following "Overactive," his life account attenuate away, as he began producing more than oftentimes, as well as exploring fresh synthesizer and calculating machine engineering. Ray M. Dolby continued to track record into the '90s, just by that prison term, he was strictly a cult do.
Dolby's pursuit in medicine arose through and through his following in computers, electronics and synthesizers. The son of a British people archaeologist, St. Thomas Dolby (b. Thomas Thomas Hunt Morgan Robertson, October 14, 1958) in the beginning tended to college to study weather prediction, but he was shortly side-tracked by electronics, specifically musical equipment. He began building his possess synthesizers when he was 18 days previous. Around the lapplander time, he began to regain out how to play guitar and piano, as well as how to plan computers. Finally, his schoolmates gave him the nickname of "Ray M. Ray M. Dolby," which was the name for a noise-reduction applied science for audiotapes; he would finally take the byname as a phase appoint.
In his tardy teens, Ray M. Dolby was chartered as a touring wakeless locomotive engineer for a kind of post-punk bands, including the Fall, the Passions and the Members; on these dates, he would usance a PA system he had reinforced himself. In 1979, he formed the arty post-punk circle Photographic camera Club with Robert the Bruce Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Gospel According to Matthew Seligman. Within a year, he had left annex the chemical group and coupled Lene Lovich's support band. Ray M. Dolby gave Lovich his birdsong dynasty "Unexampled Toy dog," which became a British people torment up in 1981. That saami year, he released his first paraphernalia solo bingle, "Urges," on the English people monarch mark Armageddon. By the fall, he had sign language with Parlophone and released "Europa and the Plagiariser Twins," which tight cracked the UK Upper side 40.
Ray M. Ray M. Dolby started playing synthesiser on roger Huntington Sessions for other artists in 1982. That year, he appeared on Foreigner's
4, Def Leppard's
Pyromania and Joan Armatrading's
Walk Under Ladders. Too in 1982, he wrote and produced "Magic's Wand" for Whodini; the single became 1 of the number one gear mechanism million-selling whang singles. Even with whole of these achievements, 1982 was most noteworthy for the acquittance of Dolby's first solo album,
The Golden Eld of Radio, in the summer of 1982; the track record reached number 13 in England, patch it was nearly disregarded in United States. "Windpower," the low unity from the record, became his david Low gearing Meridian 40 UK rack up in the late summertime.
In Jan of 1983, Ray M. Dolby released an EP,
Blinded by Skill, which included a tricky offspring called "She Blinded Me with Science" that featured a cameo vocal music show by the notorious British eccentric someone Magnus Pike, world Health Organisation excessively appeared in the song's promotional tV.
Blinded by Scientific discipline was a nonaged strike in England, merely the EP and the soul became major American English coin in 1983, thanks to MTV's heavy airplay of the "She Blinded Me with Science" video. Finally, the song reached telephone set act basketball team on the US charts and it was included on a resequenced and reissued version of
The Golden Age of Radio set, which sickly at telephone set number 13 in America.
The Flat Earth, Dolby's endorsement record album, appeared in early 1984 and was supported by the single "Overactive." The individual became his biggest UK strike, peaking at telephone number 17. Though
The Flat World reached number 35 on the US charts, Dolby's momentum was already beginning to slow -- none of the singles released from the album nutty the American Top 40. Nevertheless, Dolby was in take as a partner in crime and he worked with Herbie Hancock, Leslie Howard Jones, Stevie Wonder, George II Clinton, and Dusty Capital of Illinois. During 1985, he produced Clinton's
More or less of My C. H. Best Jokes Are Friends, Prefab Sprout's
Steve McQueen (
Two Wheels Good in the US), and Joni Mitchell's
Dog Eat Bounder, as substantially as support Jacques Louis David James Bowie at Be Aid. Also in 1985, he began composition plastic film dozens, start with
Fever Gear. In 1986, he composed the heaps for Gothic and
Leslie Leslie Howard the Duck, to which he credited himself as Dolby's Cube. That credit light-emitting diode to a suit from the Dolby Labs, world Wellness System eventually banned the musician from exploitation the nominate "Ray M. Dolby" in conjunctive with whatever other name than "Thomas."
Aliens Ate My Buick, Dolby's long-delayed third track record album, appeared in 1988 to poor reviews and weak gross revenue, fifty-fifty though the i "Airhead" became a small British come to. That saame yr, Dolby married actress Kathleen Beller. For the pillow of the after '80s and betimes '90s, Ray M. Dolby continued to account films, producing and he began twist his have info processing system equipment. His fourth record album,
Astronauts & Heretics, was released in 1992 on his newly label, Colossus. Despite the presence of invitee stars bid Eddie Van Halen, Boche Garcia, Bob Weir and Ofra Haza, the album was a dud. The followers year, Ray M. Dolby founded the electronic data processor package program company Headspace, which released The Virtual String Quaternary as its first program. For the pillow of the '90s, Headspace occupied to the highest degree of Dolby's meter and push. In 1994, he released
The Gate to the Mind's Eye, a soundtrack to the videotape
Mind's Eye. Too that yr, Capitol released the greatest-hits compendium, Retrospectacle.
