1980!
The theme to Tomorrow's World - popular BBC show devoted to new technologies, gadgets, inventions, appliances, breakthroughs etc etc.
Now, along with bolstering the counter-narrative about technotronica's origins, this BBC Radiophonic creation is also a classic example of what I call "friendly futurism"
i.e the electronic future emerging first not out of pop's vanguards (art-pop or street) but from the middle-aged and the middle-of-the-road - radio and TV themes, musik for advertisements, , novelty pop, background music, easy-listening, etc
Raymond Scott, Jean-Jacques Perrey, this chap...
In part because who else could afford to use the gear at the start?
