My family were quite early adopters of satellite television back in the day, and there were two things that I found especially exciting. First, getting up at 5am before school to watch start-ups from weird channels. Secondly: watch foreign gameshows. There’s no way I’d do the first these days but the second is still extremely compelling.
Anyway, basically I *loved* Sat 1, its clean look and unified presentation, and I *loved* Glücksrad and Geh Aufs Ganze in the afternoons. And one of the reasons for that was an extremely synthy signature sound of Klaus-Peter Sattler.
So I was thrilled to discover on Discord the other day that his ‘Die Musik vor Sat 1’ album has made it on to Youtube.
I think you’d struggle to call it cool in the same way Ed Welch’s slightly rockier synths of the time probably could (and I’d, probably not kill but maybe maim, for a Best of Ed Welch album, particularly as an ex-TVS child), but I kind of love it all the same.