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** Dolby says in The Flat Earth remaster booklet that he rushed the album out after only completing 7 songs to his satisfaction, due to having to run off to the US to do a tour for his breakthrough hit "She Blinded Me With Science".
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* RearrangeTheSong: Dolby and Ryuichi Sakamoto's collaboration "Field Work" was released in two versions, the London Mix (Dolby's mix) and the Tokyo Mix (Sakamoto's mix). As the name implies, these were mixed in London and Tokyo respectively, with the London mix being mixed by Dolby and the Tokyo mix being mixed by Sakamoto. Rather than being remixes, they are two distinct final versions of the song, without having heard the other. Sakamoto had agreed to the collaboration but was too busy to come to London, so they decided to do the collaboration long-distance. The two came up with a basic idea and vocal for the track and sent each othe parts, then did their own final mixes without having heard the other, with their own additional instrumentation. Of the two, the London mix is quite loud and bombastic (and thus used for the single) ,whereas the Tokyo mix is much more sedate. Though the Tokyo Mix was the original B-Side of the single in the UK, it has only appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's CDs in Japan, and so fans are often unaware of it.
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* RearrangeTheSong: Dolby and Ryuichi Sakamoto's collaboration "Field Work" was released in two versions, the London Mix (Dolby's mix) and the Tokyo Mix (Sakamoto's mix). As the name implies, these were mixed in London and Tokyo respectively, with the London mix being mixed by Dolby and the Tokyo mix being mixed by Sakamoto. Rather than being remixes, they are two distinct final versions of the song, without having heard the other. Sakamoto had agreed to the collaboration but was too busy to come to London, so they decided to do the collaboration long-distance. versions. The two came up with a basic idea and vocal for the track and sent each othe parts, then did their own final mixes without having heard the other, with their own additional instrumentation. Of the two, the London mix is quite loud and a bombastic (and thus used for mix that was the single) ,whereas single A-Side, whereas the Tokyo mix is much more sedate. Though a laidback mix that Sakamoto mixed himself, and is a B-Side. Both use exactly the same vocal track. Whilst the London mix has been on various Dolby releases, the Tokyo Mix was the original B-Side of the single in the UK, it mix has only appeared been released on Ryuichi Sakamoto's CDs in Japan, and so fans are often unaware of it.CDs.
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* RearrangeTheSong: Dolby and Ryuichi Sakamoto's collaboration "Field Work" was released in two versions, the London Mix (Dolby's mix) and the Tokyo Mix (Sakamoto's mix). As the name implies, these were mixed in London and Tokyo respectively, with the London mix being mixed by Dolby and the Tokyo mix being mixed by Sakamoto. Rather than being remixes, they are two distinct final versions of the song, without having heard the other. Sakamoto had agreed to the collaboration but was too busy to come to London, so they decided to do the collaboration long-distance. The two came up with a basic idea and vocal for the track and sent each othe parts, then did their own final mixes without having heard the other, with their own additional instrumentation. Of the two, the London mix is quite loud and bombastic (and thus used for the single) ,whereas the Tokyo mix is much more sedate. Though the Tokyo Mix was the original B-Side of the single in the UK, it has only appeared on Ryuichi Sakamoto's CDs in Japan, and so fans are often unaware of it.
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* WastedSong: Dolby says this about "Don't Turn Away" in The Flat Earth remaster booklet, as it had only appeared on the "Howard The Duck" soundtrack in 1986. He felt like the remaster gave it an opportunity to shine.
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* Sampling: In the 80s, Dolby was rather fond of a sample of night birds, used to simulate night. He first used it in "The Jungle Line", then as linking material between "White City", "Mulu The Rain Forest" and "I Scare Myself" on The Flat Earth, and then a few years later at the end of "Pulp Culture".
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* Sampling: {{Sampling}}: In the 80s, Dolby was rather fond of a sample of night birds, used to simulate night. He first used it in "The Jungle Line", then as linking material between "White City", "Mulu The Rain Forest" and "I Scare Myself" on The Flat Earth, and then a few years later at the end of "Pulp Culture".
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** "Airhead's Revenge" is an AnswerSong sequel to "Airhead".
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* AnswerSong: Dolby intentionally invoked this trope with the remix "Airhead's Revenge". The song features a female rapper criticising Dolby for spending money on women but having no charm, and a male rapper defending Dolby for being hardworking.
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* BilingualBonus[=/=]CriticalResearchFailure: The latter of these two tropes is invoked in "Airhead" - after the line, "Quod Erat Demonstrandum, baby", a voice can be heard saying, "Oh! You speak French!", ignoring the fact that the statement is Latin.
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* BilingualBonus[=/=]CriticalResearchFailure: The latter of these two tropes is invoked in "Airhead" - after the line, "Quod Erat Demonstrandum, baby", a voice can be heard saying, "Oh! You speak French!", ignoring the fact that the statement is Latin. This highlights that the titular Airhead is unable to discern any foreign language apart from French.
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* ShoutOut : The line "This ain't no rap attack" in "Hyperactive" is one to "Magic's Wand" by "Whodini", which Dolby produced the previous year. In "Magic's Wand", one of the rappers states that the song IS a rap attack.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: At the time of the 2009 remasters, Dolby released two tracks that were left off for time reasons, these being a "Flying North" Demo with an extra verse, and a live "White City" with intro speech about the Flat Earth Society (which tied in with the album of the same name). Dolby's forum was later taken down due to a large amount of spam and him migrating to Facebook. Fortunately, they were both uploaded to Youtube: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOkftxNONuc FlyingNorth]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NRgK7psjpA WhiteCity]].
** Though Dolby did a good job of mopping up the rarities on his first two album remasters, he left off Jungle Line and its dub because of the cost of royalties (Joni Mitchell wrote the song), and left off the original mix of Urban Tribal because he considered it unfinished. He left an alternate mix of Puppet Theatre (that appeared on the Silk Pyjamas single) off the Flat Earth remaster because there was already the original B-Side mix on there. There are also a good number of rarities that appear on singles from his following album "Aliens Ate My Buick" and "Astronauts And Heretics", however, there is a chance remasters might be released.
** Dolby did a 1981 session for Kid Jensen that notably features a full band version of "Therapy/Growth" (which didn't feature any drums on its studio recording), as well renditions of "Radio Silence (Guitar Version)", "Urges" and "Commercial Breakup". It's unlikely this session will ever be officially released but fortunately someone who had a tape of the session was kind enough to put it onto [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5H5gPbEUtQ Youtube]].
** Though Dolby did a good job of mopping up the rarities on his first two album remasters, he left off Jungle Line and its dub because of the cost of royalties (Joni Mitchell wrote the song), and left off the original mix of Urban Tribal because he considered it unfinished. He left an alternate mix of Puppet Theatre (that appeared on the Silk Pyjamas single) off the Flat Earth remaster because there was already the original B-Side mix on there. There are also a good number of rarities that appear on singles from his following album "Aliens Ate My Buick" and "Astronauts And Heretics", however, there is a chance remasters might be released.
** Dolby did a 1981 session for Kid Jensen that notably features a full band version of "Therapy/Growth" (which didn't feature any drums on its studio recording), as well renditions of "Radio Silence (Guitar Version)", "Urges" and "Commercial Breakup". It's unlikely this session will ever be officially released but fortunately someone who had a tape of the session was kind enough to put it onto [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5H5gPbEUtQ Youtube]].
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* ObviousBeta: [[WordOfGod Dolby]] says that the original mix of "Urban Tribal" (B-Side of "The Jungle Line" single under the alias Low Noise) was rushed out before he could put his planned harmony vocal on it. When it came to doing "The Golden Age Of Wireless" remaster, he asked his daughter Harper to add the harmony vocal.
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** Weightless is about a trip around Europe Dolby had with a former girlfriend. The relationship failed whilst the two were in Paris, and for a while he was stranded there. Notably, the song takes place from both his perspective "There's an empty feeling in Dolby's heart" and the {{expy}} for his girlfriend (Lizzie).
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 videogame VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film HowardTheDuck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film HowardTheDuck ''Film/HowardTheDuck'' and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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* TrainSong: "Spice Train"
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Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones everywhere (including the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is often a major speaker at technology conferences such as Comdex, Websphere, and Nokia.
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Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones everywhere (including the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is often a major speaker at technology conferences such as Comdex, Websphere, and Nokia.
Nokia. Starting in 2013, he became the Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.
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* ScareChord: "Hyperactive" opens with two of these. See the above MoodWhiplash example.
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* FantasaticDrug: The titular "cube" in "May The Cube Be With You".
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* FantasaticDrug: FantasticDrug: The titular "cube" in "May The Cube Be With You".
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* BilingualBonus[=/=]CriticalResearchFailure: The latter of these two tropes is invoked in "Airhead" - after the line, "Quod Erat Demonstrandum, baby", a voice can be heard saying, "Oh! You speak French!", ignoring the fact that the statement is Latin.
* TheDitz: The subject of "Airhead". While Dolby is impressed with her looks, he still can't deny that she's not the brightest.
* FantasaticDrug: The titular "cube" in "May The Cube Be With You".
* FantasaticDrug: The titular "cube" in "May The Cube Be With You".
* DumbBlonde: Played with in one of the lines of "Airhead" - people only ''think'' the girl in the song's subject is a dumb blonde, "But they don't know she dyes her hair".
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* NoExportForYou: For some reason, his The Gate To The Minds Eye soundtrack was never actually pressed in the UK, so it is a rare item there. It was available on import occasionally when Virgin Megastore was in operation.
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* ShownTheirWork: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* ShownTheirWork: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk From his most recent 2011 album, ''A Map of the Floating City'', he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', 'The Toad Lickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* SynthPop: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
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* SynthPop: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well..involve... well... him. And a lot of synths.
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* ShownTheirWork: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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In 1990 Dolby played the role of the villain Stanley in the movie Rockula as well as contributing the songs "Stanely's Death Park" and "Budapest by Blimp".
In 1993, Dolby successfully established the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifically for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. It had the advantage of small file size like MIDI but allowed recorded sampled sounds to be included at a higher bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files could be played in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in their files that were supposed to prevent unauthorized duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and now specializes in software synthesizers for mobile phones, which it has licensed to mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia.
In 1993, Dolby successfully established the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifically for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. It had the advantage of small file size like MIDI but allowed recorded sampled sounds to be included at a higher bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files could be played in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in their files that were supposed to prevent unauthorized duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and now specializes in software synthesizers for mobile phones, which it has licensed to mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia.
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In 1990 Dolby played the role of the villain Stanley in the movie Rockula as well as contributing the songs "Stanely's Death Park" and "Budapest by Blimp".
Blimp". In 1993, Dolby successfully established the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifically for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. It had the advantage of small file size like MIDI but allowed recorded sampled sounds to be included at a higher bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files could be played in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in their files that were supposed to prevent unauthorized duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and now specializes in software synthesizers for mobile phones, which it has licensed to mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia.
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* Music/NewWave: Dolby's early work falls within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.
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* Music/NewWave: [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]: Dolby's early work falls within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.
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* MoodWhiplash: Deliberately done on The Flat Earth, where the smooth and jazzy I Scare Myself is followed by the loud and raucous Hyperactive!. This is made more jarring by the fact that Hyperactive! begins with two scarechords.
* NoExportForYou: For some reason, his The Gate To The Minds Eye soundtrack was never actually pressed in the UK, so it is a rare item there. It was available on import occasionally when Virgin Megastore was in operation.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot:
** Flying North is about Dolby's real fear of flying.
** Cloudburst At Shingle Street is about a real beach Dolby used to go to on the East Anglian coast, where the phenomenon of cloudbursts would occur.
** One Of Our Submarines is about an uncle of Dolby's who went missing in his submarine during World War II.
** Hyperactive! apparently is partly based on Dolby's life.
** Simone is about a male to female transexual. A short time after he recorded the song (but before he released it) his daughter Harper announced that she wanted a sex change. The song carries special poignancy for him now.
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** Flying North is about Dolby's real fear of flying.
** Cloudburst At Shingle Street is about a real beach Dolby used to go to on the East Anglian coast, where the phenomenon of cloudbursts would occur.
** One Of Our Submarines is about an uncle of Dolby's who went missing in his submarine during World War II.
** Hyperactive! apparently is partly based on Dolby's life.
** Simone is about a male to female transexual. A short time after he recorded the song (but before he released it) his daughter Harper announced that she wanted a sex change. The song carries special poignancy for him now.
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* SurrealMusicVideo: Both Most of his major hits had pretty weird videos.them, though She Blinded Me With Science is particularly known for it.
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* TheEighties: His album The Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
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* TheEighties: His The rerelease of his album The Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
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* Music/NewWave: Dolby falls to some degree within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.
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* GenreRoulette: Dolby has done songs in many different genres. His recent album Map Of The Floating City is possibly the best example of it:
** Nothing New Under The Sun (Rock/Pop)
** Spice Train (Dubstep / Indian Music)
** Evil Twin Brother (Club music with low key verses)
** A Jealous Thing Called Love (Latin music)
** Road To Reno (Upbeat folk rock with soul horns and guitar echo)
** Toadlickers (Country rock)
** 17 Hills (Country ballad)
** Love Is A Loaded Pistol (Piano and string ballad)
** Oceanea (Autotune and synth ballad)
** Simone (Latin ballad)
** To The Lifeboats (Ballad with rock mid section)
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** Nothing New Under The Sun (Rock/Pop)
** Spice Train (Dubstep / Indian Music)
** Evil Twin Brother (Club music with low key verses)
** A Jealous Thing Called Love (Latin music)
** Road To Reno (Upbeat folk rock with soul horns and guitar echo)
** Toadlickers (Country rock)
** 17 Hills (Country ballad)
** Love Is A Loaded Pistol (Piano and string ballad)
** Oceanea (Autotune and synth ballad)
** Simone (Latin ballad)
** To The Lifeboats (Ballad with rock mid section)
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* AlbumTitleDrop: "All I want is the keys to your Ferrari / because ''Aliens Ate My Buick''"
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* {{Badass}}: In 1990, he played the Schoolmaster in ''Roger Waters: TheWall Live in Berlin 1990''. His performance in "The Trial" involved singing his lines while suspended on kirby wires in a Teacher costume with cartoonishly long arms and legs. And he pulled it off quite marvelously.
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film HowardTheDuck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film HowardTheDuck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame GrandTheftAutoViceCity VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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* SequelSong: "Eastern Bloc" is a sequel to "Europa and the Pirate Twins".
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Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film Howard the Duck HowardTheDuck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City GrandTheftAutoViceCity as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
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* [=New Wave=]: Dolby falls to some degree within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.
* [=Steampunk=]: Dolby's sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, antique brass items and truly classic album covers
* [=Synth Pop=]: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
* [=The Eighties=]: His album The Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
* [=Shown Their Work=]: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
* [=Steampunk=]: Dolby's sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, antique brass items and truly classic album covers
* [=Synth Pop=]: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
* [=The Eighties=]: His album The Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
* [=Shown Their Work=]: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* [=New Wave=]: NewWave: Dolby falls to some degree within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.
*[=Steampunk=]: {{Steampunk}}: Dolby's sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, antique brass items and truly classic album covers
*[=Synth Pop=]: SynthPop: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
*[=The Eighties=]: TheEighties: His album The Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
*[=Shown Their Work=]: ShownTheirWork: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* [=New Wave=]: Dolby falls to some degree within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with, then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* [=Shown Their Work=]: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and showing how he used various gadgets.
gadgets. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with for the track 'Toadlickers', then gets into all the technical bits]]
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* [=TropeTitle=]: Steampunk, New Wave, Synth Pop, The Eighties
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* Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, definitely falling into Shown Their Work
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, and truly classic album covers and titles like "Aliens Ate My Buick"
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
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!! This musician also provides examples of:
* Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, definitely falling into Shown Their Work
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, and truly classic album covers and titles like "Aliens Ate My Buick"
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
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* [=TropeTitle=]: Steampunk, New Wave, Synth Pop, [=New Wave=]: Dolby falls to some degree within this category due to the period and some of his more pop tunes.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY_f58iexyk&feature=youtu.be From his most recent album, he here explains the idea he wanted to play with, then gets into all the technical bits]]
* [=Steampunk=]: Dolby's sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, antique brass items and truly classic album covers
* [=Synth Pop=]: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
* [=The Eighties=]: His album TheEighties
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Golden Age of Wireless provided one of the fundamental hits of 1982, "She Blinded Me With Science"
* [=Shown Their Work=]: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube,definitely falling into Shown Their Work
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy,dissecting his song concepts, explaining how he arranged tracks, and truly classic album covers and titles like "Aliens Ate My Buick"
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
showing how he used various gadgets.
* [=Steampunk=]: Dolby's sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, antique brass items and truly classic album covers
* [=Synth Pop=]: Most of Dolby's songs are composed on synthesizer, and many of his live performances involve.. well.. him. And a lot of synths.
* [=The Eighties=]: His album The
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* [=Shown Their Work=]: Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube,
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy,
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
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Thomas Dolby is an award-winning English musician known for his steampunk style, his eclectic musical style, and his ability with electronic instruments. And his goggles.
Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson; 14 October 1958) is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician. Robertson was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s press releases that reported his birthplace as Cairo, Egypt. His father, Martin Robertson, was an internationally distinguished professor of classical Greek art and archeology at the University of London and Oxford University, and in his youth Thomas lived or worked in France, Italy and Greece. He attended Abingdon School in 1975-76, completing his A Levels whilst there. He later married actress Kathleen Beller in 1988; the couple have three children together.
Dolby is member #00001 of the current incarnation of the Flat Earth Society, a pseudoscientific group. His best known song came from the album "The Golden Age of Wireless" (1982), frequently re-released and revision with varying tracks available - it was released five times, in fact! He has produced a variety of albums since then, along with video games based on his steampunk settings.
Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film Howard the Duck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
In 1990 Dolby played the role of the villain Stanley in the movie Rockula as well as contributing the songs "Stanely's Death Park" and "Budapest by Blimp".
In 1993, Dolby successfully established the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifically for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. It had the advantage of small file size like MIDI but allowed recorded sampled sounds to be included at a higher bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files could be played in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in their files that were supposed to prevent unauthorized duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and now specializes in software synthesizers for mobile phones, which it has licensed to mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia.
While still remaining on the company board, Dolby stepped down from his position as CEO of Beatnik Inc. to pursue other technologically innovative interests, such as founding Retro Ringtones LLC in 2002, which produces the RetroFolio ringtone asset management software suite for companies involved in the mobile phone ringtone business. At the second annual Mobile Music Awards, Miami, Florida, in 2004 RetroFolio won "Best of Show" and "Best New Technology" awards.
Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones everywhere (including the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is often a major speaker at technology conferences such as Comdex, Websphere, and Nokia.
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!! This musician provides examples of:
* [=TropeTitle=]: Steampunk, New Wave, Synth Pop, The Eighties
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!! This musician also provides examples of:
* Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, definitely falling into Shown Their Work
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, and truly classic album covers and titles like "Aliens Ate My Buick"
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
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Thomas Dolby is an award-winning English musician known for his steampunk style, his eclectic musical style, and his ability with electronic instruments. And his goggles.
Thomas Dolby (born Thomas Morgan Robertson; 14 October 1958) is an English musician and producer. Best known for his 1982 hit "She Blinded Me with Science", and 1984 single "Hyperactive!", he has also worked extensively in production and as a session musician. Robertson was born in London, England, contrary to information in early 1980s press releases that reported his birthplace as Cairo, Egypt. His father, Martin Robertson, was an internationally distinguished professor of classical Greek art and archeology at the University of London and Oxford University, and in his youth Thomas lived or worked in France, Italy and Greece. He attended Abingdon School in 1975-76, completing his A Levels whilst there. He later married actress Kathleen Beller in 1988; the couple have three children together.
Dolby is member #00001 of the current incarnation of the Flat Earth Society, a pseudoscientific group. His best known song came from the album "The Golden Age of Wireless" (1982), frequently re-released and revision with varying tracks available - it was released five times, in fact! He has produced a variety of albums since then, along with video games based on his steampunk settings.
Thomas Dolby has also worked as a producer and a soundtrack composer for both films and video games, most notably "The Gate To The Mind's Eye", the third installment of the CGI collection, the Mind's Eye (series). Dolby also wrote the songs for the 1986 George Lucas film Howard the Duck and chose the members of the film's fictional band, Cherry Bomb. Dolby wrote and produced three tracks for the 1992 soundtrack of the animated movie FernGully: The Last Rainforest. He also created the score for the 1993 Sega CD interactive movie "Double Switch". Additionally, the song "Hyperactive!" is featured in the 2002 PlayStation 2 videogame Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the New Wave radio station Wave 103.
In 1990 Dolby played the role of the villain Stanley in the movie Rockula as well as contributing the songs "Stanely's Death Park" and "Budapest by Blimp".
In 1993, Dolby successfully established the Headspace company. Headspace developed a new downloadable file format designed specifically for Internet usage called Rich Music Format with the RMF file extension. It had the advantage of small file size like MIDI but allowed recorded sampled sounds to be included at a higher bitrate for better overall reproduction. RMF music files could be played in a browser using the free Beatnik Player plug-in. Later versions of RMF permitted artists to place an encrypted watermark in their files that were supposed to prevent unauthorized duplication. In 1999, Headspace, Inc. was renamed Beatnik, Inc., and now specializes in software synthesizers for mobile phones, which it has licensed to mobile phone manufacturers including Nokia.
While still remaining on the company board, Dolby stepped down from his position as CEO of Beatnik Inc. to pursue other technologically innovative interests, such as founding Retro Ringtones LLC in 2002, which produces the RetroFolio ringtone asset management software suite for companies involved in the mobile phone ringtone business. At the second annual Mobile Music Awards, Miami, Florida, in 2004 RetroFolio won "Best of Show" and "Best New Technology" awards.
Dolby's musical talents have also been put to use creating hundreds of digital polyphonic ringtones now found on mobile phones everywhere (including the polyphonic version of the infamous Nokia signature theme). He is often a major speaker at technology conferences such as Comdex, Websphere, and Nokia.
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!! This musician provides examples of:
* [=TropeTitle=]: Steampunk, New Wave, Synth Pop, The Eighties
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!! This musician also provides examples of:
* Dolby is known for making his work available on Youtube, definitely falling into Shown Their Work
* His sense of style usually includes goggles, whimsy, and truly classic album covers and titles like "Aliens Ate My Buick"
* His album covers, music videos, and overall themes stay firmly within the Steampunk genre as a rule.
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