As ever the excellent Richard Murphy has it spot on
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Thomas Dolby is a genius imo.
Back in '99 I was working for an early digital music download site. Those pre-iTunes days were pretty wild west with a variety of different approaches/ideas and even formats.
I saw Dolby give a talk at a conference about his audio technology company Beatnik and its unique âplayerâ. He was very interested in reducing file size and as far as I remember his player was actually a synthesizer and âmusic filesâ were actually instructions for it to reproduce the sounds at the users end thus a fraction of the size of mp3s.
Its USP was that the âplayerâ allowed you to switch on & off different parts of the track - drums, bass, etc and add effects - stems 20 years before stems!
He had licensed Bowieâs Fame and I think a Cyndi Lauper track - I had loads of fun buggering about with them and Hyperactive on my PC.
Unf I canât find any footage of the player/interface which was great and really intuitive, but you get the gist with this clunkier looking WebTV version.
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When we lived in London Paul Gambaccini was without a doubt the celebrity we saw most often. Sometimes weâd see him twice in a weekend. Leave us alone, Paul!
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Itâs true. Britain smells of weed and Garlic Sauce 
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No idea if this link will work, but best thing Iâve seen all year.
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Hehehe thats great. See also the young Japanese reggae mc⌠There must be something in the water.
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The Diabolic one droppinâ science
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MARDI GRAS SANS BELLS: THE SHORT VERSION â Soul Sides.
This is my favourite Biz story- the mythical ( and possibly non existent) 12â of Take me to the Mardi Grasâ he claimed to own
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https://www.youtube.com/live/cRL1bRHqrvk?si=P_5jv_z613Erzlal
Enjoying this set alot atm 
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He comes across very well doesnât heâŚ
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