American Association of Independent Music chief Richard James Burgess previews its Libera Awards and Indie Week’s 10th-anniversary edition, set for June 17-20 in New York.
Looking back to your first Indie Week, what stands out most to you?
You were among the first to sample recorded sounds on an album in your work with the Fairlight CMI [a digital synthesizer-sampler] on projects like Kate Bush’s 1980 LPIt was the first record to use a digital sample, as far as we can tell. I had one of the first three Fairlights outside of Australia. One was kept at their U.K. distributor, Syco Systems, and the other was with.
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