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<p>Katie Notopoulos <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/l-ron-hubbardss-weird-music-career" target="_self">rounds up</a>&#0160;bizarre recordings, which she describes as &quot;approximately as good as the movie <em>Battlefield Earth&quot;:</em></p>
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<p>L. Ron became very interested in a particular synthsizer that was  popular in the early &#39;80s called the Fairlight CMI. Church of  Scientology literature about Hubbard&#39;s music career talks about how he  discovered untapped potential in the instrument that the inventors of  the Fairlight had never considered.</p>
<p>In fact, the Fairlight was very popular in the &#39;80s, so much so that Phil Collins was moved to state in his album notes for <em>No Jacket Required</em> that the Fairlight was NOT used on the record. Kate Bush used the Fairlight extensively on <em>Hounds of Love</em>, proving you can make good music with it, not just weird a weird jumble of horse sounds like Hubbard did.</p>
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<p>Above is Hubbard&#39;s song &quot;Windsplitter,&quot; which is from his album &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jazz" target="_self">Space Jazz</a>.&quot;</p>
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